The Balancing Act: Unmasking and Alleviating ASR Biases in Portuguese
Résumé
In the field of spoken language understanding, systems like Whisper and Multilingual Massive Speech (MMS) have shown state-of-theart performances. This study is dedicated to a comprehensive exploration of the Whisper and MMS systems, with a focus on assessing biases
in automatic speech recognition (ASR) inherent to casual conversation speech specific to
the Portuguese language. Our investigation encompasses various categories, including gender,
age, skin tone color, and geo-location. Alongside traditional ASR evaluation metrics such as
Word Error Rate (WER), we have incorporated p-value statistical significance for gender bias
analysis. Furthermore, we extensively examine the impact of data distribution and empirically
show that oversampling techniques alleviate such stereotypical biases. This research represents a pioneering effort in quantifying biases in the Portuguese language context through the application of MMS and Whisper, contributing to a better understanding of ASR systems’ performance in multilingual settings.
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