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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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Silent Speech(also: Silent Speech Interface, SSI)
Communication technologies that generate intelligible speech from non-acoustic signals produced during the intent or attempt to speak, without requiring audible voicing. Input modalities include surface electromyography of articulatory muscles, ultrasound tongue imaging,…
Speech Diversity(also: Diverse Speech, Non-Typical Speech)
The full range of ways human speech varies from the narrow 'typical' speech on which most speech-AI systems are trained and benchmarked. Speech diversity includes people who stutter, d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing speakers, people with dysarthria, aphasia, or other neurological…
Speech-to-Speech(also: S2S, Speech-to-Speech Conversion)
A class of systems that transform one speech signal directly into another — for example, converting atypical input (whispered, dysarthric, accented, or cross-lingual speech) into clear, intelligible output in a target voice or language. Speech-to-speech systems differ from…
Stuttering(also: Stammering, Speech Disfluency Disorder)
A speech disorder characterized by involuntary disruptions in the flow of speech, including repetitions of sounds, syllables, or words (e.g., "w-w-water"), prolongations of sounds (e.g., "sssssnake"), and blocks where airflow is stopped and no sound is produced. Stuttering…

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