ServiceNow AI benchmarks frontier ASR systems on code-switched bilingual speech
ServiceNow AI published a benchmarking study evaluating frontier automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems on code-switched speech, where speakers alternate between two languages mid-conversation. The work targets a practical gap in voice agent deployments serving bilingual customer populations. Results assess how well current ASR models handle this linguistically complex scenario, with implications for enterprise voice AI reliability.
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