Literature Reviews

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

• Predicting the Understandability of Imperfect English Captions for People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

  Sushant Kafle, Matt Huenerfauth (2019) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper tackles a fundamental measurement problem in ASR-based captioning for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) users: the standard Word Error Rate (WER) metric has little correlation with how DHH users actually perceive caption quality. WER treats a…

  • automatic speech recognition
  • captioning
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • evaluation metrics
  • word error rate
  • caption quality
  • word importance
  • semantic distance
  • NLP