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Challenges in Automatic Speech Recognition for Adults with Cognitive Impairment

Michelle Cohn, Alyssa Lanzi, Yui Ishihara, Chen-Nee Chuah, Georgia Zellou, Alyssa Weakley (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

This CHI 2026 paper quantifies how well state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) handles voice commands produced by older adults with cognitive impairment, and asks which acoustic features actually predict transcription accuracy. The autho…

Accessibility Evaluation of Classroom Captions

Raja S. Kushalnagar, Walter S. Lasecki, Jeffrey P. Bigham (2014) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of real-time captioning approaches for classroom lectures, comparing Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and a novel collaborative captioning system call…

Measuring the Accuracy of Automatic Speech Recognition Solutions

Korbinian Kuhn, Verena Kersken, Benedikt Reuter, Niklas Egger, Gottfried Zimmermann (2024) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

This study provides independent, comprehensive benchmarking of 11 common automatic speech recognition (ASR) services to assess their real-world accuracy for accessibility purposes. The research addresses a critical gap: while vendors claim "state-of-…

Evaluating Alternatives for Better Deaf Accessibility to Selected Web-Based Multimedia

Brent N. Shiver, Rosalee J. Wolfe (2015) — ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

This research addresses the accessibility gap created by the proliferation of uncaptioned video content online—a particular problem for deaf adults who use American Sign Language as their primary language and view English as a second language. While …

The Effects of Automatic Speech Recognition Quality on Human Transcription Latency

Yashesh Gaur (2015) — ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

This paper investigates a practical question for accessibility: when does providing automatic speech recognition (ASR) output help human captionists work faster, and when does it slow them down? Converting speech to text is fundamental for making aud…

Behavioral Changes in Speakers who are Automatically Captioned in Meetings with Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Peers

Matthew Seita, Khaled Albusays, Sushant Kafle, Michael Stinson, Matt Huenerfauth (2018) — Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2018)

This study from Rochester Institute of Technology investigates a largely unexplored question: how does using an ASR-based captioning tool in meetings with deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) colleagues change the speaking behavior of hearing participants? …