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Posted by Joel Shor and Dotan Emanuel, Research Engineers, Google Research, Tel Aviv The utility of technology is dependent on its accessibility. One key component of accessibility is automatic speech recognition (ASR), which can greatly improve the ability of those with speech impairments to interact with every-day smart devices. However, ASR systems are most often trained from 'typical' speech, which means that underrepresented groups, such as those with speech impairments or heavy accents, do...