Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have been shown to have large
quality disparities between the language varieties they are intended or
expected to recognize. One way to mitigate this is to train or fine-tune models
with more representative datasets. But this approach can be hindered by limited
in-domain data for training and evaluation. We propose a new way to improve the
robustness of a US English short-form speech recognizer using a small amount of
out-of-domain (long-form) African American English (AAE) data. We use CORAAL,
YouTube and Mozilla Common Voice to train an audio classifier to approximately
output whether an utterance is AAE or some other variety including Mainstream
American English (MAE). By combining the classifier output with coarse
geographic information, we can select a subset of utterances from a large
corpus of untranscribed short-form queries for semi-supervised learning at
scale. Fine-tuning on this data results in a 38.5% relative word error rate
disparity reduction between AAE and MAE without reducing MAE quality.

使用少量的长形式非洲裔美国英语（AAE）数据，通过将分类器输出与地理信息相结合，优化洲外识别器，从而减少 AAE 与 MAE 之间的相对词错误率差异 38.5%，而不降低 MAE 的质量。