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Whisper automatic speech recognition and humans are similarly sensitive to accents, but use sentence context differently

2025-09-04

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<p>Despite advancements in speech recognition technology, questions remain about model generalizability and how much models mirror human comprehension. These questions are addressed by comparing OpenAI's Whisper model and 75 human transcribers on 300 English sentences (20 speakers, half F, half M, half US-accented, half Spanish-accented). Sentences ended in 100 target words: 1⁄3 high-predictability sentences (The...

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Literature Corpus work: 9c8d3265-6888-51ea-a0d3-469e7e01b7ec
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/8dhua_v1

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