Mind the Accent Gap: British Accent Robustness in Speech-Driven Financial Voice Assistants

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arXiv:2610.06587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI voice assistants often use Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) with LLM-based reasoning, yet existing systems struggle with regional British accents, including Scottish, Irish, and Welsh accents, since most ASR models are trained predominantly on American English voice data. Consequently, errors can carry through to the LLM stage, corrupting tool-call arguments and producing wrong or missing responses, which is especially costly in finance. Dep