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After six years of low scores for students learning English, Texas educators say it’s the test’s fault
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According to my own experience as a fluent English speaker who has a strong accent, modern voice-recognition systems have no problem with my accent, but I agree that they have flaws. They're not perfect, but I expect that they're more accurate than teachers because teachers have motives other than accuracy.
My wife and her family have a hell of a time getting Google to understand their requests (Hispanic, wife is first generation) and has no issue understanding my requests, so I could see significant issues with the software misinterpreting.
Interesting. A few people have told me that I enunciate more clearly than a native speaker, so if that's the case then my experience with speech-recognition systems will not be representative. With that said, older speech recognition systems did have trouble understanding me whereas newer ones don't so I think there really has been improvement.
I tried to find data about how students fluent in English do on this test but I wasn't able to. Comparing native English speakers to native Spanish speakers who have already learned English would be informative.
Huh. My wife's Filipino accent is pretty heavy and Google almost always understands her.