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When Your AI Assistant Misidentifies Your Accent
Episode 48 of AI Ethics with Fexingo dives into a surprisingly common and deeply frustrating bias: accent misidentification in voice AI. Lucas and Luna explore a 2025 Stanford study showing that speech-to-text systems from major providers misrecognize words from speakers with African American Vernacular English and Southern U.S. accents up to 30 percent more often than from standard American English speakers. They discuss the real-world consequences, from faulty transcription in legal depositions to a home assistant ordering the wrong item because it couldn't parse a user's regional…
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