Fact · Languages and accents
A 2017 study of YouTube's automatic captions found lower accuracy for women and for speakers from Scotland.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“with lower accuracy for 1) women and 2) speakers from Scotland”
Gender and Dialect Bias in YouTube's Automatic Captions, Rachael Tatman, Proceedings of the First ACL Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing, 2017, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- The study controlled for speaker by using accent tag challenge videos in which speakers state their own language background. It compared five dialect groups of English and two genders.
- What it does not show
- A 2016-era system and a small sample. Current recognizers are better, but gaps between dialects persist in more recent studies.
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