I have been working on societal impacts of language technology since late 2016, and my nightmare example since pretty early on has been using automatic transcription in emergency services systems.
And today I learn it's happening *in my own city*
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Why is this a nightmare scenario for a computational linguist? Because automatic processing of speech (whether for transcription or detecting any other info in the speech signal) does not work equally well for different people.
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