Abstract
Human listeners are able to quickly and robustly adapt to new accents and do so by using information about speaker’s identities. This paper will present experimental evidence that, even considering information about speaker’s identities, listeners retain a strong bias towards the acoustics of their own dialect after dialect learning. Participants’ behaviour was accurately mimicked by a classifier which was trained on more cases from the base dialect and fewer from the target dialect. This suggests that imbalanced training data may result in automatic speech recognition errors consistent with those of speakers from populations over-represented in the training data.- Anthology ID:
- W17-0704
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2017)
- Month:
- April
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Valencia, Spain
- Editors:
- Ted Gibson, Tal Linzen, Asad Sayeed, Martin van Schijndel, William Schuler
- Venue:
- CMCL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 29–34
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W17-0704
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W17-0704
- Cite (ACL):
- Rachael Tatman. 2017. “Oh, I’ve Heard That Before”: Modelling Own-Dialect Bias After Perceptual Learning by Weighting Training Data. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2017), pages 29–34, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- “Oh, I’ve Heard That Before”: Modelling Own-Dialect Bias After Perceptual Learning by Weighting Training Data (Tatman, CMCL 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/W17-0704.pdf