{
  "id": 17070,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06141v1",
  "title": "Decolonizing Linguistic Policies in Automated Speech Recognition: A Framework for Cross-Culturally Competent Speech AI",
  "summary": "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 research, and decolonial computing, we show how data, me",
  "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": "2026-08-06T15:10:29.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-07T05:10:58.501Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17070",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06141v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}