AfriBED: a Speech Recognition Bias Evaluation Dataset for Low Resource African Languages
Despite advancements in automatic speech recognition systems (ASR), current systems exhibit speaker-attribute bias, i.e., their speech recognition performance is biased against certain speakers based on their demographic attributes such as gender, accents, and speaker type. However, accurately assessing speaker attribute bias in a given ASR system requires the availability of a bias evaluation dataset with comparable speech across subgroups of a speaker attribute. In this paper, we introduce African speech Bias Evaluation Dataset (AfriBED), a novel speech recognition bias evaluation dataset for two low resource African languages, Bemba and Nyanja, to detect and estimate gender and speaker...
| Authors | Claytone Sikasote, Hussein Suleman, Jan Buys |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 19 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 19 October 2026 |
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