The Cost of Sounding Different: Accent Bias in Audio Language Models

Published in 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026). Outstanding Paper Award 🏆, 2026

Aruna Srivastava, Orevaoghene Ahia, Li Lucy, Ashley Christendat, Sameep Chattopadhyay, Farhan Samir, Tejumade Afonja, Valentin Hofmann, Sachin Kumar, Noah A. Smith, Yulia Tsvetkov

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Aruna Srivastava, Orevaoghene Ahia, Li Lucy, Ashley Christendat, Sameep Chattopadhyay, Farhan Samir, Tejumade Afonja, Valentin Hofmann, Sachin Kumar, Noah A. Smith, Yulia Tsvetkov. (2026). The Cost of Sounding Different: Accent Bias in Audio Language Models. 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026). Outstanding Paper Award 🏆.