Congrats Matthew!
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This week I had the privilege of presenting my recently submitted MSc dissertation work at #uklvc15, my first major conference where I met some incredible people who had some very inspiring comments.
Thank you to @clrnance.bsky.social for providing the opportunity to present at such short notice!
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Tell me you don't understand accent bias, without telling me you don't understand.
Assuming someone is an 'entitled, snobby plonker' because of their RP ('plummy') accent *is* accent bias...!
The training we're leading addresses *all* types of accent bias.
07.04.2025 13:17 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
‘Sorry, I didn’t get that’: AI misunderstands some people’s words more than others
Speaking with an AI bot can be amusing and even helpful – if it understands you. How well AIs do that is a matter of whose speech they’ve been trained on.
Speech recognition systems struggle with accents and dialects, risking problems in critical fields like healthcare and emergency services. Imagine calling 911 and the AI used to screen out non-emergency calls can’t understand you.
A Spanish language professor explains:
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Lecturer in Sociolinguistics in Southampton, with special interests in perception, accent bias, socio-semantics, language and the police.
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Juggling contracts in Newcastle cos academia's *just like that*
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PhD student (corpus linguistics / English dialects) at Queen Mary University London. Spoken English cataloguer at British Library's Sound Archive. She/her. https://join.greenparty.org.uk/
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Sociolinguist - part-time teacher at the University of York. I'm interested in gender, sexuality, sport, and language. she/her
Sociolinguist at BYU. American English (Utah, Georgia, and Latter-day Saints), mostly vowels, some methods. Organist, bread maker, fan of succulents, beginning knitter.
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Sociophonetician & forensic speech scientist @ Lancaster University. All about voice and identity.
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Lecturer in Psychology, most interested in learning, language, and literacy across development. Wannabe stats geek. Social runner. https://learnlabyork.org.uk/
British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) is a professional association and charity (264800), based in the UK, which provides a forum for people interested in language and applied linguistics. Account managed @melevans.bsky.social
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