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I agree with your point. It can be hard for a US native English speaker to recognize a Scottish accent. But, other Scottish people certainly don't have trouble

I agree with your point. It can be hard for a US native English speaker to recognize a Scottish accent. But, other Scottish people certainly don't have trouble with understanding a Scottish accent. So I view that as a certificate that we should be able to build a speech recognizer which can recognize Scottish accents.

aidenn0 9y ago
A speech recognizer that has been trained with General American (which is likely the largest corpus we have), is analagous for a US native English speaker, so I wouldn't expect it to work on Scottish accents. Whether or not gathering a sufficiently large corpus of other dialects will solve the problem would be interesting; also it might be uneconomical to gather a large enough corpus of some dialects, leaving minorities out.
gsnedders 9y ago
> But, other Scottish people certainly don't have trouble with understanding a Scottish accent. So I view that as a certificate that we should be able to build a speech recognizer which can recognize Scottish accents. As a Scottish person, I'll say there's a huge amount of variation between Scots dialects. As someone who grew up in Fife, it took me well over a year of living in Glasgow to be able to reliably understand people there—and both of them are typically classed as Central Scots.
- dboreham 9y ago
  Parliamo Glasgow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfCk_yNuTGk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfCk_yNuTGk I also grew up in Fife, although my parents paid good money so I would have an Edinburgh accent. Glasgow was like a foreign country to us...
  - gsnedders 9y ago
    > I also grew up in Fife, although my parents paid good money so I would have an Edinburgh accent. I grew up in St Andrews, both of my parents having grown up in England, and went through speech therapy as a young child (due to dyspraxia); unsurprisingly, with that, you can imagine my accent is much closer to RP than any broad Fife accent, though most of my speech is definitely Standard Scottish English.
    - dboreham 9y ago
      Well...St Andrews really isn't Fife ;)

aidenn0 9y ago

A speech recognizer that has been trained with General American (which is likely the largest corpus we have), is analagous for a US native English speaker, so I wouldn't expect it to work on Scottish accents. Whether or not gathering a sufficiently large corpus of other dialects will solve the problem would be interesting; also it might be uneconomical to gather a large enough corpus of some dialects, leaving minorities out.

gsnedders 9y ago

> But, other Scottish people certainly don't have trouble with understanding a Scottish accent. So I view that as a certificate that we should be able to build a speech recognizer which can recognize Scottish accents. As a Scottish person, I'll say there's a huge amount of variation between Scots dialects. As someone who grew up in Fife, it took me well over a year of living in Glasgow to be able to reliably understand people there—and both of them are typically classed as Central Scots.

dboreham 9y ago
Parliamo Glasgow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfCk_yNuTGk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfCk_yNuTGk I also grew up in Fife, although my parents paid good money so I would have an Edinburgh accent. Glasgow was like a foreign country to us...
- gsnedders 9y ago
  > I also grew up in Fife, although my parents paid good money so I would have an Edinburgh accent. I grew up in St Andrews, both of my parents having grown up in England, and went through speech therapy as a young child (due to dyspraxia); unsurprisingly, with that, you can imagine my accent is much closer to RP than any broad Fife accent, though most of my speech is definitely Standard Scottish English.
  - dboreham 9y ago
    Well...St Andrews really isn't Fife ;)