Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• AudioWiz: Nearly Real-Time Audio Transcriptions

  Samuel White (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This student research paper presents AudioWiz, a mobile application that provides near-real-time transcriptions of both spoken words and environmental sounds for deaf and hard of hearing users. The author identifies a critical gap in existing automat…

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • audio transcription
  • crowdsourcing
  • human computation
  • environmental sounds
  • sound awareness
  • mobile accessibility