Evaluating the Effect of SpecSwap for Purposes of Improving WER Performance of the Western Dutch Region Using the JASMIN-CGN Dataset

A problem prevalent in many modern-day Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems is the presence of bias and its reduction. Bias can be observed when an ASR system performs worse on a subset of its speakers compared to the rest rather than having the same overall generalization for everyone. This can be seen by using Word Error Rates (WER) as a...