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Gender and Dialect Bias in YouTube’s Automatic Captions
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This project evaluates the accuracy of YouTube's automatically-generated captions across two genders and five dialects of English.Speakers' dialect and gender was controlled for by using videos uploaded as part of the "accent tag challenge", where speakers explicitly identify their language background.The results show robust differences in accuracy across both gender and dialect, with lower accuracy for 1) women and 2) speakers from Scotland.This finding builds on earlier research finding that speaker's sociolinguistic identity may negatively impact their ability to use automatic speech recognition, and demonstrates the need for sociolinguistically-stratified validation of systems.
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“These models can perform well on average but poorly on some users (Tatman, 2017; Caldas et al., 2018; Li et al., 2019b; Koenecke et al., 2020).”
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“Performance disparities across individuals have been observed in a wide range of tasks and applications, including in natural language processing (Geva et al., 2019), automatic speech recognition (Koenecke et al., 2020; Tatman, 2017), federated learning (Li et al., 2019b; Caldas et al., 2018), and medical imaging (Badgeley et al., 2019).”
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“These models can perform well on average but poorly on some individuals (Tatman, 2017; Caldas et al., 2018; Li et al., 2019b; Koenecke et al., 2020).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Tatman, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- Corresponding author
- Tatman, Rachael
- Venue
- Proceedings of the First ACL Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing
- Published
- 2017
- Pages
- 53-59
- OpenAlex
- W2607719644
- Cited by
- 338
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
- 2026: 34 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 35 · 2023: 50 · 2022: 56 · 2021: 62 · 2020: 33 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 8.48
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1256082)
- University of Washington
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech Recognition and Synthesis
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Keywords
- speech recognition, speech recognition accuracy, gender bias, Scottish English, accent, sociolinguistic identity
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