Oishani Bandopadhyay

Using accent variability to probe the performance of the Whisper automatic speech recognition system

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often achieve high accuracy for native speech, yet remain less reliable for non-native (L2) accented speech. This gap raises a question about why ASR performs so well on L1 speech. When acoustic cues diverge from expectation, does ASR accommodate L2 speech acoustics, or does i...