Independent Standards & Assurance · Speech AI

If AI systems make
decisions based on
how people speak,

someone must independently verify they work for the people they are intended to serve.

Accentis provides the trust infrastructure for speech AI — helping enterprises, governments, and regulators determine whether voice AI systems perform accurately and fairly for the populations they serve.

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AI systems are making decisions based on how people speak.

Voice authentication. IVR routing. Call centre automation. Clinical documentation. Conversational AI. These systems are increasingly embedded in banking, healthcare, government, and telecommunications — making consequential decisions based on speech, at scale, every day.

Most organisations have no independent way to determine whether those systems perform equally well for the populations they serve. When they do not, the result is not a technical inconvenience. It is invisible friction, disproportionate failure rates for specific customer groups, and unmeasured corporate liability in regulated industries.

Higher word error rates for non-dominant English speakers in leading commercial voice AI systems (Koenecke et al., Stanford / PNAS 2020)
0
Published independent standards for evaluating speech AI performance across Caribbean English or other underrepresented populations
88%
Of contact centres already use some form of AI — deployed at scale before population-level performance has been independently verified
8%
Gross revenue returned as perpetual royalties to voice contributors in each territory — because the people whose speech built the standard share in its value

Think of us less like a data supplier and more like an independent audit firm — built for the voice AI economy.

Accentis provides governance, standards, and verification for speech AI. Three layers, one purpose: ensuring AI systems work for the populations they are intended to serve.

01 · Governance
Voice Vault

Our foundational infrastructure layer managing contributor consent, data provenance, governance, and auditability. Every voice that enters the Accentis system is tracked, consented, and governed — creating a defensible, independently verifiable data record.

Consent · Provenance · Auditability · Stewardship
02 · Standards
ARSF

The Accentis Representative Speech Framework. A published standard defining what representative speech looks like for a population and how speech AI systems should be evaluated against it. The published standard that makes independent assessment possible.

Accentis Representative Speech Framework
03 · Verification
Speech Assurance

Our independent assessment layer. Tests enterprise voice systems against our published territory standards to generate objective performance evidence — the benchmark reports and compliance metrics that enterprise buyers, risk officers, and regulators need to verify system equity and hold vendors accountable.

Independent testing · Independent evidence · Independent reporting

Every territory follows
the same rigorous path.

Accentis does not begin with data collection. We begin with discovery — understanding whether a real need exists, what evidence buyers would act on, and what a representative standard for this population should look like. Collection only happens where the standard requires it. The asset is the standard. The data is evidence that supports it.

Stage 1
Discovery
Structured conversations with enterprise buyers, regulators, and government stakeholders to validate demand and define what evidence they would act on.
Stage 2
Representative Framework
The territory standard is designed — defining what representative speech looks like for this population and how AI systems should be evaluated against it.
Stage 3
Benchmark
Speech AI systems deployed in this territory are independently assessed against the published standard. Evidence is generated. Buyers receive reports they can act on.
Stage 4 — Where Required
Voice Vault
Where existing data is insufficient to support the standard, governed collection is activated — consented, provenance-tracked, and independently verified through Voice Vault.
Stage 5
Speech Assurance
Ongoing independent assessment. Not a one-time audit — a continuous assurance relationship as systems evolve and populations are better understood.
Current Status · Barbados
Discovery Underway
Representative framework in development · Benchmark planned · Standards committee seated · GovTech Barbados partnership active
Next Territories
Caribbean & Beyond
Jamaica · Trinidad · Bahamas · London · Nigeria · Territory selection follows discovery signal, not a fixed rollout calendar.

Our contributors are not data sources.
They are long-term stakeholders.

When a territory's standard requires governed voice data, the people who contribute their voices become Founding Contributors — not paid once and forgotten, but long-term stakeholders in the speech infrastructure their community helps create.

Every time that data supports a licensed standard or assessment, Founding Contributors receive income. Their community built the standard. Their community shares in its value.

Founding Contributor Promise
"8% of gross revenue returned as perpetual royalties. Founding Contributors become long-term stakeholders in the speech infrastructure their community helps create."

Accentis standards are developed through independent, multidisciplinary working groups comprising experts in linguistics, statistics, AI evaluation, governance, and the communities represented by each territory.

Linguistics Dialect · Phonology · Sociolinguistics
Statistics Sampling · Representativeness · Statistical Design
AI Evaluation Benchmarking · Fairness · Performance
Data Governance Consent · Provenance · Legal

Just as financial audits require independent auditors, speech AI requires independent evaluation.

Evidence that a company produces about its own systems is not independent evidence. For benchmark reports to mean something to a regulator, a procurement team, or a customer — they must come from an organisation with no stake in the outcome.

Accentis does not build voice AI. We do not sell voice AI. We independently measure how well it performs for the populations it is intended to serve. That independence is the entire value of the assessment.

Vendor-Neutral
No financial relationship with any voice AI platform or vendor. Our assessments cannot be influenced by the systems being assessed.
Scientifically Governed
Standards developed by independent multidisciplinary committees. Framework published and reproducible.
Auditable
Every standard, every assessment, every data provenance record is documented and independently verifiable.
Buyer-Aligned
Our clients are the organisations that deploy AI — banks, governments, telecoms — not the vendors who build it.

If your organisation deploys, regulates, or relies on voice AI, we work with you.

Banking & Financial Services
Banks & Insurers

Independent evaluation of voice authentication, customer service AI, and IVR systems — producing evidence your risk and compliance teams can use.

Telecommunications
Telecoms

Speech AI benchmarking across your actual customer population — identifying performance gaps before they become complaints or churn.

Public Sector
Governments

Citizen-service assurance — independent evidence that voice-enabled government services work for all citizens, not just majority populations.

Healthcare
Healthcare Providers

Clinical speech validation — ensuring voice AI used in patient-facing and clinical documentation contexts performs accurately across your patient population.

AI Developers & Vendors
AI Vendors & Platform Developers

Representative evaluation against published territory standards — providing the independent benchmark evidence your enterprise customers need to deploy your systems with confidence in regulated markets.

Ready to verify that your AI
works for every voice?

Whether you are an enterprise deploying voice AI, a regulator setting standards, a government building citizen-facing services, or a community partner — there is a place for you in building the trust infrastructure speech AI needs.
Let's talk.

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