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The MALACH study observed no evidence that accent or speaker age affected recognition performance.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“while we observed no evidence of the impact of accent and speaker's age on the recognition performance”
Speech recognition error analysis on the English MALACH corpus, Olivier Siohan et al., Interspeech 2004 (ISCA), 2004, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.21437/Interspeech.2004-171)- What it measures
- This finding is different from the speaker-group gap in the 2020 study.
- What it does not show
- One 2004 corpus. It does not show that accent never matters for any system.
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