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An overview of a partnership (Google, University of Western Australia) to make speech technologies work better for Indigenous users in Australia.
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Aboriginal English Voices is a partnership between Google and the University of Western Australia to improve Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) technologies. Products using these technologies often fail for Indigenous people in Australia who use a distinct variety of English known as Aboriginal English. In this talk, we introduce some of the features of Aboriginal English that distinguish it from mainstream Australian English, and present the results of Indigenous-led interviews which reveal frustrations by Aboriginal English speakers when using speech technologies. We then give an overview of an effort to make speech technologies more inclusive by building a dataset of spoken Aboriginal English.
The University of Western Australia
Adjunct Fellow
Google Research
Senior Researcher
The University of Western Australia
Associate Professor
Monash University
Organizer
Haizea Analytics
Organizer
Monash University
Organizer
Macquarie University
Macquarie University
The University of Queensland
University of Queensland
Science Catalyst Program Manager
University of Sydney
University of Sydney
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