Which mechanism explains why speech recognition systems struggle with dialects?

💡 Explanation

Dialects exhibit variations in pronunciation, meaning that the phoneme-grapheme mapping varies across dialects; therefore, speech recognition models trained on a standard dialect perform poorly on non-standard dialects because the phoneme recognition process fails to generalize, rather than other model parameters simply needing adjustment.

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