You don't understand me!: Comparing ASR results for L1 and L2 speakers of Swedish

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13379v1
• Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 06:24:55 GMT
• Title: You don't understand me!: Comparing ASR results for L1 and L2 speakers of Swedish
• Authors: Ronald Cumbal, Birger Moell, Jose Lopes, Olof Engwall,
• Abstract summary: We focus on the gap in performance between recognition results for native and non-native, read and spontaneous, Swedish utterances transcribed by different ASR services. We compare the recognition results using Word Error Rate and analyze the linguistic factors that may generate the observed transcription errors.
• Score: 0.5249805590164903
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The performance of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems has constantly increased in state-of-the-art development. However, performance tends to decrease considerably in more challenging conditions (e.g., background noise, multiple speaker social conversations) and with more atypical speakers (e.g., children, non-native speakers or people with speech disorders), which signifies that general improvements do not necessarily transfer to applications that rely on ASR, e.g., educational software for younger students or language learners. In this study, we focus on the gap in performance between recognition results for native and non-native, read and spontaneous, Swedish utterances transcribed by different ASR services. We compare the recognition results using Word Error Rate and analyze the linguistic factors that may generate the observed transcription errors.

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