Patent 11626112 was granted and assigned to Wells Fargo on April, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Systems and methods for detecting demographic bias in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Corpuses of transcriptions from different demographic groups are analyzed, where one of the groups is known to be susceptible to bias and another group is known not to be susceptible to bias. ASR accuracy for each group is measured and compared to each other using both statistics-based and practicality-based methodologies to determine whether a given ASR system or model exhibits a meaningful level of bias.