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Re:Speech Recognition Is Not Solved by gsnedders on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @03:01PM (#15544277)
> But, other Scottish people certainly don't have trouble with understanding a Scottish accent. So I view that as a certificate that we should be able to build a speech recognizer which can recognize Scottish accents.

As a Scottish person, I'll say there's a huge amount of variation between Scots dialects. As someone who grew up in Fife, it took me well over a year of living in Glasgow to be able to reliably understand people there—and both of them are typically classed as Central Scots.

Re:Speech Recognition Is Not Solved by dboreham on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @03:10PM (#15544351)
Parliamo Glasgow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfCk_yNuTGk

I also grew up in Fife, although my parents paid good money so I would have an Edinburgh accent. Glasgow was like a foreign country to us...

Re:Speech Recognition Is Not Solved by gsnedders on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @03:32PM (#15544510)
> I also grew up in Fife, although my parents paid good money so I would have an Edinburgh accent.

I grew up in St Andrews, both of my parents having grown up in England, and went through speech therapy as a young child (due to dyspraxia); unsurprisingly, with that, you can imagine my accent is much closer to RP than any broad Fife accent, though most of my speech is definitely Standard Scottish English.

Re:Speech Recognition Is Not Solved by dboreham on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @08:12PM (#15546317)
Well...St Andrews really isn't Fife ;)