An evolutionary approach for accent classification in IVR systems
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper describes a speaker-independent accent-based natural language call-routing system. Based on a speaker's accent group, this system directs customer calls to the automatic speech recognition system that is most suitable to recognize the input query. The speech recognition system understands the caller's query and converts it into routing keywords. Accent identification is the most important factor for improving the performance of natural language call-routing systems because accents vary widely, even within the same country or community. This variation occurs when non-native speakers start to learn a second language; the substitution of native language phoneme pronunciation is a common occurrence. In this paper, a new method is proposed based on class inequivalent side information and an evolutionary-based K-means clustering algorithm. In a distance metric learning approach, data points are transferred to a new space where the Euclidean distances between similar and dissimilar points are at their minimum and maximum, respectively. However, the evolutionary-based K-means clustering approach yields globally optimized Gaussian components for an accent classification system.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it