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Transcribing speech is never neutral. It shapes power and bias

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By Celeste Rodriguez Louro
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Earlier this year I gave a talk about my research at Oxford’s All Souls College, and worked with a chef to design an accompanying menu. Thinking about my work in southwest Western Australia, I typed “Boorloo”, the Nyungar name for the City of Perth. Autocorrect had other ideas. It replaced it with “Barolo” – which, I thought, made for a fitting wine choice on the night.It was an amusing moment, but also a revealing one.
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Transcribing speech is never neutral—it shapes power and bias

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By Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Gaby Clark Verified, Andrew Zinin Verified
| Phys.org Verified
Credit: Ron Lach from Pexels Earlier this year I gave a talk about my research at Oxford's All Souls College, and worked with a chef to design an accompanying menu. Thinking about my work in southwest Western Australia, I typed "Boorloo," the Nyungar name for the City of Perth. Autocorrect had other ideas. It replaced it with "Barolo"—which, I thought, made for a fitting wine choice on the night. It was an amusing moment, but also a revealing one.
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In a world of AI text, speech still reigns supreme

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By Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Gaby Clark Verified, Andrew Zinin Verified
| Tech Xplore Verified
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as an undergraduate in Argentina. The lecturer asked a simple question: where does language come from? My instinctive answer was: books. After four decades researching language and linguistics, that response now seems almost absurd. But it reflects a common bias among those of us raised in text-based cultures.
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