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New technique SamaVaani audits and debiases clinical ASR for Indian languages

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A new research paper introduces SamaVaani, a method for auditing and debiasing multilingual clinical Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems for Indian languages. The study evaluated eight state-of-the-art ASR models on psychiatric interview data in Kannada, Hindi, and Indian English, finding significant performance disparities across models and languages. Researchers also identified fairness gaps related to speaker role and gender, which were addressed through fairness-aware fine-tuning and the proposed SamaVaani technique. AI

IMPACT Addresses critical fairness and performance gaps in clinical ASR for diverse Indian languages, potentially improving healthcare equity.

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New technique SamaVaani audits and debiases clinical ASR for Indian languages

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 Bahasa(ID) · Subham Kumar, Prakrithi Shivaprakash, Abhishek Manoharan, Astut Kurariya, Diptadhi Mukherjee, Prabhat Chand, Pratima Murthy, Koustav Rudra, Lekhansh Shukla, Animesh Mukherjee ·

    SamaVaani: Auditing and Debiasing Multilingual Clinical ASR for Indian Languages

    arXiv:2606.26901v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is increasingly used to document clinical encounters, yet its reliability in multilingual and demographically diverse Indian healthcare context remains largely unknown. In this study, we first co…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 Bahasa(ID) · Animesh Mukherjee ·

    SamaVaani: Auditing and Debiasing Multilingual Clinical ASR for Indian Languages

    Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is increasingly used to document clinical encounters, yet its reliability in multilingual and demographically diverse Indian healthcare context remains largely unknown. In this study, we first conduct the systematic audit of ASR performance on r…

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