Automatic speech recognition must handle how people actually speak, not only the languages and styles that dominate pretraining data. Regional dialects and…
Automatic speech recognition must handle how people actually speak, not only the languages and styles that dominate pretraining data. Regional dialects and local recording conditions are often underrepresented, so a multilingual model that performs well on broad benchmarks may still fall short in deployment. Saudi Arabic makes that concrete. A model may recognize Modern Standard Arabic or…