Voice, Bias, and Coreference: An Interpretability Study of Gender in Speech Translation

arXiv:2511.21517v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unlike text, speech conveys information about the speaker, such as gender, through acoustic cues like pitch. This gives rise to modality-specific bias concerns. For example, in speech translation (ST), when translating from languages with notional gender, such as English, into languages where gender-ambiguous terms referring to the speaker are assigned grammatical gender, the speaker's vocal characteristics may play a role in gender assig