AI Speech Recognition Failures

AI speech recognition failures — transcription errors and misheard voice commands. We've tracked 8 distinct AI Speech Recognition Failures patterns across production AI agent deployments — most commonly in Speech and Audio systems. One recurring example: Accent and Dialect Bias — ASR Performs Significantly Worse on Non-Standard Accents

Each pattern below documents the specific failure mode, why it happens, and how teams have mitigated it in practice — use this page as a reference when building guardrails, writing evals, or debugging an agent that's already misbehaving in this way.