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• CLARIS: Clear and Intelligible Speech from Whispered and Dysarthric Voices

  Neil Shah, Yash Sonkar, Shirish Subhash Karande, Vineet Gandhi · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper introduces CLARIS (Clear and Accessible Restoration of Impaired Speech), a compact end-to-end neural speech-to-speech restoration system designed to convert whispered speech and dysarthric speech into clear, natural, intelligible voice output. The authors…

  speech accessibility · dysarthria · voice conversion · whispered speech · silent speech

• Overcoming Speech Barriers: Non-Verbal Voice Cue Interaction Technique for Enhancing Smart Voice Assistant Accessibility for Individuals with Dysarthria

  Aisha Jaddoh, Fernando Loizides, Khadijah Alreafai, Omer Rana · 2025 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This study presents DARIA (DysARthrIA), a novel smart voice assistant interaction system that uses non-verbal voice cues instead of spoken words and sentences. The system addresses a critical accessibility gap: commercial voice assistants like Alexa and Google Home rely on…

  dysarthria · speech impairment · voice assistants · smart speakers · non-verbal interaction

• Self-supervised learning using unlabeled speech with multiple types of speech disorder for disordered speech recognition

  Ryoichi Takashima, Takeru Otani, Ryo Aihara, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Shinya Taguchi · 2024 · Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2024)

  This paper tackles a critical barrier in accessible speech technology: automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems perform poorly for people with speech disorders because they are trained almost exclusively on typical speech. The authors from Kobe University and Mitsubishi…

  speech recognition · speech disorders · machine learning · self-supervised learning · assistive technology

• Assessing Virtual Assistant Capabilities with Italian Dysarthric Speech

  Fabio Ballati, Fulvio Corno, Luigi De Russis · 2018 · Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '18)

  This paper evaluates how well three major smartphone virtual assistants — Apple's Siri, Google Assistant, and Microsoft's Cortana — can understand and respond to Italian dysarthric speech. Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder characterized by slurred, slow, or…

  speech recognition · dysarthria · virtual assistant · voice interface · ALS

• Perspectives on Speech and Language Interaction for Daily Assistive Technology: Introduction to Part 1 of the Special Issue

  Heidi Christensen, Frank Rudzicz, François Portet, Jan Alexandersson · 2015 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This editorial introduces the first part of a TACCESS special issue on speech and language interaction for daily assistive technology, emerging from the 2013 SLPAT (Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies) workshop. The editors frame speech and natural language…

  speech recognition · disordered speech · dysarthria · speech intelligibility · assistive technology

• Automatic Detection of Phone-Based Anomalies in Dysarthric Speech

  Imed Laaridh, Corinne Fredouille, Christine Meunier · 2015 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This research develops automatic methods to detect and localize acoustic anomalies in speech produced by people with dysarthria, a motor speech disorder caused by neurological damage affecting the respiratory, phonatory, resonatory, articulatory, or prosodic components of…

  dysarthria · speech recognition · automatic speech processing · motor speech disorders · clinical assessment

• SpeechOmeter: Heads-up Monitoring to Improve Speech Clarity

  Mansoor Pervaiz, Rupal Patel · 2014 · Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS '14)

  This demonstration paper presents SpeechOmeter, a Google Glass application that provides real-time visual biofeedback on vocal loudness to help individuals with neuromotor speech disorders (dysarthria) speak more clearly during daily conversation. Dysarthria accompanies…

  speech disorders · dysarthria · speech therapy · wearable technology · biofeedback

• How Someone with a Neuromuscular Disease Experiences Operating a PC (and How to Successfully Counteract That)

  Torsten Felzer, Stephan Rinderknecht · 2013 · Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This experience report describes the first author's personal journey as a computer scientist with Friedreich's Ataxia (FA), a progressive neuromuscular disease diagnosed at age 15 that causes ataxia of limbs, dysarthria, and muscle weakness. Despite needing a wheelchair since…

  motor impairment · neuromuscular disease · Friedreich's Ataxia · text entry · assistive technology

• Comparing speaker-dependent and speaker-adaptive acoustic models for recognizing dysarthric speech

  Frank Rudzicz · 2007 · Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '07)

  This short ASSETS 2007 poster from Frank Rudzicz at the University of Toronto compares two strategies for building automatic speech recognition (ASR) acoustic models that work for people with dysarthria — a set of motor speech disorders that produces speech with high intra- and…

  dysarthria · automatic speech recognition · acoustic model · speaker adaptation · hidden Markov model

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