Literature Reviews

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

• SoundNarratives: Rich Auditory Scene Descriptions to Support Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

  Liang-Yuan Wu, Dhruv Jain (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper introduces SoundNarratives, a real-time system that generates rich, contextual auditory scene descriptions tailored to deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) users. Existing sound recognition technologies typically classify sounds into predefined …

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • sound awareness
  • generative AI
  • audio-language models
  • prompt engineering
  • situational awareness
  • auditory scene analysis