Study: speech recognition systems from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, and Microsoft misidentify words 19% of the time with white people vs. 35% with black people
Technology from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft misidentified 35 percent of words from people who were black.
New York Times Cade Metz
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Camilo
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@nappy_techie Spanish Siri can't understand my Spanglish, or even English place names lol
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@nytimesbusiness
@nytimesbusiness
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Stanford researchers say they have a found a big gap in how well speech-recognition systems understand people who are white and people who are black https://www.nytimes.com/...
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Brandi T. Summers, Phd
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Paging Dr. @ruha9! “The Stanford study indicated that leading speech recognition systems could be flawed because companies are training the technology on data that is...learning their task mostly from white people, and relatively few black people.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
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Leonid Boytsov
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WOW, in one test of off-the-shelf speech recognition system, the best word error rates were at 20% level and the worse were above 50%. It worked much worse for black folks... yet it does not seem to work really well for white folks either https://www.nytimes.com/...
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Hasan Kwame Jeffries
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“We know the data has bias in it. You don't need to yell that as a new fact. Humans have bias in them, our systems have bias in them. The question is: What do we do about it?"" There Is a Racial Divide in Speech-Recognition Systems, Researchers Say https://www.nytimes.com/...