Google Telephony

Benchmarking human vs. ASR systems on diverse Dutch speech (children, elderly, Flemish)

A preprint from arXiv compares state-of-the-art ASR systems against Dutch native listeners on 'diverse' speech including child speech, older adult speech, and Flemish regional accents. Google Telephony outperformed other ASR systems, and ASR systems matched or exceeded human listener performance in several conditions. Performance gaps remain for aging-related acoustic variability and regional accents, and the choice of test set materially affects benchmark conclusions.