Papers by Joseph Dureau
Sonos Voice Control Bias Assessment Dataset: A Methodology for Demographic Bias Assessment in Voice Assistants (2024.lrec-main)
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Chloe Sekkat, Fanny Leroy, Salima Mdhaffar, Blake Perry Smith, Yannick Estève, Joseph Dureau, Alice Coucke
| Challenge: | Recent studies show voice assistants do not perform equally well for everyone . however, research on demographic robustness of speech technologies is still scarce . |
| Approach: | They propose a statistical method to detect demographic bias using a large dataset with controlled demographic tags. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method shows statistically significant differences in performance across age, dialectal region and ethnicity. |