Jonas Söderström • 2022
Companies have usually engineered voice
technology to cater to uninterrupted speech
from “the average North American English
voice,” said Frank Rudzicz, associate professor
at the University of Toronto who studies
speech, language and arti
fi
cial intelligence. As
a result, diverse speech patterns sometimes
sound foreign to voice-enabled devices.
In other words, companies have rarely
prioritized those of us whose speech doesn’t
match what engineers assume to be the norm.