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Smart voice assistants struggle to understand users' non-standard speech such as mumbling and dialects.CUI '23Would People Mumble Rap to Alexa?
LLM and Natural Language Interaction / Multilingual Voice Assistants and Code-Switching Support
Smart voice assistants struggle to understand users' non-standard speech such as mumbling and dialects.
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English-oriented AI systems cannot adapt to the needs of users of other languages.CUI '24Findings from Studies on English-Based Conversational AI Agents (including ChatGPT) Are Not Universal
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Existing speech recognition systems cannot accurately recognize common multilingual code-switched conversations.CUI '24"¿Te vienes? Sure!" Joint Fine-tuning of Language Detection and Transcription Improves Automatic Recognition of Code-Switching Speech
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