BiasMedium
Personal voice assistants struggle with black voices, new study shows
- Occurred
- Mar 23, 2020
- Published
- Apr 7, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A study found that voice recognition tools from Apple, Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft disproportionately made errors when transcribing black speakers.
Developers
- Microsoft
- IBM
- Apple
- Amazon
Deployers
- Microsoft
- IBM
- Apple
- Amazon
Harmed parties
- Black people
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Study reveals racial bias in voice recognition accuracy across major tech companies.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8