System and method for accent classification

A computer program product residing on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed across one or more processors, causes at least a portion of the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• receiving speech input, the speech including an accent;
• classifying the accent with an accent classifier to yield an accent classification;
• performing automatic speech recognition based on the speech input and the accent classification to yield an automatic speech recognition output;
• performing natural language understanding on the speech recognition output determining an intent of the speech recognition output;
• using natural language generation to generate an output based on the speech recognition output and the intent;
• and
• rendering an output using text to speech based on the natural language generation.

A computing system including one or more processors and one or more memories configured to perform operations comprising:

• receiving speech input, the speech including an accent;
• classifying the accent with an accent classifier to yield an accent classification;
• performing automatic speech recognition based on the speech input and the accent classification to yield an automatic speech recognition output;
• performing natural language understanding on the speech recognition output determining an intent of the speech recognition output;
• using natural language generation to generate an output based on the speech recognition output and the intent;
• and
• rendering an output using text to speech based on the natural language generation.