As speech recognition becomes more prevalent–and used in settings such as hiring or medical diagnoses–the issue of data and algorithm-driven bias begins to have broader implications. And, as a new experiment conducted by University of Washington linguistics researcher Rachael Tatman shows, the problem is very real. Tatman fed a diverse set of recordings called the International Dialects of English … Continue reading “YouTube video captions are more accurate if you’re white”
As speech recognition becomes more prevalent–and used in settings such as hiring or medical diagnoses–the issue of data and algorithm-driven bias begins to have broader implications. And, as a new experiment conducted by University of Washington linguistics researcher Rachael Tatman shows, the problem is very real.