Incident 102: Personal voice assistants struggle with black voices, new study shows

Description: A study found that voice recognition tools from Apple, Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft disproportionately made errors when transcribing black speakers.

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Alleged: Microsoft , IBM , Google , Apple and Amazon developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Black people.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
102
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2020-03-23
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam

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