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  • Modeling Word Importance in Conversational Transcripts: Toward improved live captioning for Deaf and hard of hearing viewers

    Akhter Al Amin, Saad Hassan, Matt Huenerfauth, Cecilia O. Alm · 2023 · Proceedings of the 20th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

    This paper investigates how to model word importance in conversational transcripts to improve live captioning quality for Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) viewers. Live captions generated by automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems inevitably contain errors, but not all errors…

    live captioning · deaf and hard of hearing · automatic speech recognition · word importance · natural language processing

  • From User Perceptions to Technical Improvement: Enabling People Who Stutter to Better Use Speech Recognition

    Colin Lea, Zifang Huang, Jaya Narain, Lauren Tooley, Dianna Yee, Dung Tien Tran, Panayiotis Georgiou, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Leah Findlater · 2023 · Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23)

    This paper investigates how people who stutter (PWS) experience consumer speech recognition systems and demonstrates technical improvements that can significantly reduce errors. The work combines user research with engineering interventions across the speech recognition…

    stuttering · speech recognition · voice assistants · dictation · speech accessibility

  • Visualization of Speech Prosody and Emotion in Captions: Accessibility for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users

    Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Matthew Watkins, Roshan Peiris, Sooyeon Lee, Matt Huenerfauth · 2023 · Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23)

    This CHI 2023 paper tackles a dimension of captioning that has gone largely unaddressed for four decades: captions depict words but strip out the prosody and emotion carried by a speaker's voice. The authors argue that while automatic speech recognition (ASR) has reduced word…

    captioning · deaf and hard of hearing · prosody · affective computing · videoconferencing accessibility

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