accent gap
Free dataset worth $1350 to test the accent gap! - KDnuggets
Free dataset worth $1350 to test the accent gap! Here's how accented speech data is the key to understanding multi-cultural users Given the demographic composition of the United States, it's no wonder that spoken English varies greatly across the country. According to the US census, there are 35 million non-native English speakers living in the US, of which 60% are native Spanish speakers. With so many accent variations, how do speech and voice technologies keep up? The more people your model can understand, the more likely you are to acquire and retain customers. Bias in speech recognition is a problem.