{
  "id": 17021,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06141",
  "title": "Decolonizing Linguistic Policies in Automated Speech Recognition: A Framework for Cross-Culturally Competent Speech AI",
  "summary": "arXiv:2608.06141v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper focuses on automatic speech recognition (ASR) and ASR-mediated voice interfaces that shape access to public services, healthcare, and education. We argue that persistent failures for low-resource, Indigenous, and non-standard language varieties are not only technical errors, but also implicit linguistic policies that reproduce colonial language hierarchies. Drawing on linguistic capital, raciolinguistic ideology, language policy resear",
  "authors": "Jay L. Cunningham, Mark Atta Mensah, Richard Martinez, Joao Vieira da Silva Neto, Efi Dawodu",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,healthcare,children-education",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-07T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-07T05:10:58.501Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cscy",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CY",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17021",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06141",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}