This special session will take place on Tuesday, September 20 at 10 am (KST time) in room R116-118. See the conference website for up-to-date information.
Chairpersons:
Prof. Prasanna Mahadeva (Professor, IIT Dharwad, Dept of Electrical Engineering, India)
Dr. Odette Scharenborg (Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
Schedule:
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Session Introduction
10:00 - 10:05 - Dr. Odette Scharenborg & Prof. Prasanna Mahadeva
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Oral Presentations
10:05 - 10:25 - "Building African Voices", Perez Ogayo (Carnegie Mellon University)
10:25 - 10:45 - "Toward Fairness in Speech Recognition: Discovery and mitigation of performance disparities", Anirudh Raju (Amazon Alexa AI, USA)
10:45 - 11:05 - "Training and typological bias in ASR performance for world Englishes", May Pik Yu Chan (University of Pennsylvania) & Nicole Holliday (Pomona College)
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Discussion with the audience
11:05 - 11:35
Chairperson: Dr. Tao Zhang (Senior Manager, Amazon Alexa, USA)
Panelists:
Prof. Laurent Besacier (Principal Scientist, Naver Labs Europe, France)
Dr. Keith Burghardt (Computer Scientist, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA)
Prof. Mark Allan (Professor, Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois, USA)
Prof. Mahadeva Prasanna (Professor, IIT Dharwad, India)
Dr. Odette Scharenborg (Associate Professor, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
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Poster Presentations
11:35 -
"A Study of Gender Impact in Self-supervised Models for Speech-to-Text Systems", Laurent Besacier (Naverlabs Europe)
"Automatic Dialect Density Estimation for African American English", Alexander Johnson (UCLA)
"Improving Language Identification of Accented Speech", Tanel Alumaeo (Tallinn University of Technology)
"Design Guidelines for Inclusive Speaker Verification Evaluation Datasets", Wiebke Toussaint (Delft University of Technology)
"Reducing Geographic Bias in Automatic Speech Recognition via Elastic Weight Consolidation", Brian King (Amazon Alexa AI, USA)
"Mitigating bias against non-native accents" Odette Scharenborg (Delft University of Technology)