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More-inclusive speech recognition with cross-utterance rescoring

Top 3% at ICASSP. Amazon's new speech recognition breakthrough tackles the bias problem that's been plaguing voice AI.

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Amazon's research addresses a critical AI fairness issue that affects real business applications - speech recognition systems that fail on underrepresented pronunciations, potentially excluding entire user groups from voice-enabled products and services.

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  1. Top 3% paper at ICASSP conference

  2. Graph-based label propagation adaptation

  3. Targets underrepresented pronunciations

  4. Cross-utterance rescoring technique

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Publisher excerpt: In a top-3% paper at ICASSP, Amazon researchers adapt graph-based label propagation to improve speech recognition on underrepresented pronunciations.
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