An engineer modifies a speech recognition system trained on American English to process Scottish English. Which consequence follows?

💡 Explanation

Scottish English uses different morphological inflections than American English; therefore, the trained system will struggle to correctly identify these, leading to reduced accuracy due to incorrect morphological parsing, rather than solely phonetic or syntactic errors because the underlying sounds and grammar structures are similar.

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