AI gets tongue-tied over spoken telugu
HYDERABAD: Artificial intelligence systems can struggle to understand spoken Telugu, with speech-recognition and translation errors sometimes changing the meaning of questions and leading to incorrect answers, a study by researchers from the International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad (IIIT-H) has found.
The researchers developed VakQA, which they describe as the first benchmark for evaluating spoken question-answering in Telugu. It contains 2,001 factoid question-answer pairs covering science, general knowledge, politics, history, culture and geography, along with 2.53 hours of speech recordings.
