# Mozfest Q&A: Governance & Algorithmic Design in Speech AI

**URL:** <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozfest-q-a-governance-algorithmic-design-in-speech-ai/112390>\
**Category:** Common Voice\
**Created:** [March 21, 2023, 9:36am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozfest-q-a-governance-algorithmic-design-in-speech-ai/112390 "2023-03-21T09:36:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![jesslynnrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/jesslynnrose/32/67413_2.png) [@jesslynnrose](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/jesslynnrose)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 9:36am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozfest-q-a-governance-algorithmic-design-in-speech-ai/112390/1 "2023-03-21T09:36:11Z")

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To help make questions answered during the Governance & Algorithmic Design in Speech AI Mozfest session more searchable and allow folks watching asynchronously to participate, we’re experimenting with running Q&A…right here!

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**Author:** ![kathyreid](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/kathyreid/32/46765_2.png) [@kathyreid](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/kathyreid)\
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Couple of questions that I had listening to the other excellent speakers:

1. For Caroline - what are the characteristics of bias that you think are most often overlooked, that have the biggest impact on the data value of a dataset?

2. For Britone - I love the idea of the writing competitions! Did you find this gave you a better lexical or phonetic coverage of text prompts?

3. For Wei - the ecosystem diagram really resonated! So useful. What sort of metrics or measures would you use for assessing the health of the ecosystem or for targeting actions?

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**Author:** ![cdbg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@cdbg](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/cdbg)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2023, 5:40pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozfest-q-a-governance-algorithmic-design-in-speech-ai/112390/3 "2023-03-21T17:40:35Z")

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Thanks @kathyreid for your question! A big one that comes to mind for voice AI, which you touched on in your presentation, is sociolinguistic variation in speech, especially commonly spoken sociolects, and interaction effect - when two or more sociolinguistic factors collide and result in variations of speech that is more than just the combination of the individual factors. One well-known example is the tendency for an interaction between class and gender identity whereby women, especially working-class women, style-shift to avoid stigmatized “working-class” linguistic forms more than men do.