Literature Reviews

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

• Automated Class Discovery and One-Shot Interactions for Acoustic Activity Recognition

  Jason Wu, Chris Harrison, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Gierad Laput (2020) — Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20)

  This paper presents Listen Learner, an end-to-end system for acoustic activity recognition that automatically discovers and learns to classify environmental sounds with minimal user effort. Traditional approaches to sound recognition face a tradeoff:…

  • acoustic activity recognition
  • smart home
  • machine learning
  • Internet of Things
  • context awareness
  • self-supervised learning
  • sound recognition
  • deaf and hard of hearing

• 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 Uni…

  • speech recognition
  • speech disorders
  • machine learning
  • self-supervised learning
  • assistive technology
  • cerebral palsy
  • dysarthria