Add troubleshooting section for ALD accented speech misdetection#799
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Accented English speech can be misidentified as other languages (Finnish, Latvian, Latin, Arabic), causing the model to transcribe IN that language rather than just mislabeling it. This is a recurring source of customer confusion. The new section explains the failure mode and recommends mitigations: constraining expected_languages, using confidence thresholds, and monitoring language_confidence in responses. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
expected_languages, usinglanguage_confidence_threshold, and monitoringlanguage_confidencein responsesexpected_languageswith afallback_languagefor applications that handle a known set of languagesContext
Multiple customers have reported ALD misdetecting accented English speech as other languages (Finnish, Latvian, Latin, Arabic). When this happens, the Whisper model transcribes in the detected language -- effectively translating the audio -- which is extremely confusing for customers who don't understand why their English audio came back in Finnish. The existing docs explain
expected_languagesbut don't explain WHY you'd use it or what goes wrong without it.Test plan
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