Literature Reviews

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

• Beyond Subtitles: Captioning and Visualizing Non-speech Sounds to Improve Accessibility of User-Generated Videos

  Oliver Alonzo, Hijung Valentina Shin, Dingzeyu Li (2022) — Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22)

  This paper investigates a significant gap in video captioning: the representation of non-speech sounds. While automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become widely available for generating captions on platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Zoom, these sy…

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • captioning
  • non-speech sounds
  • automatic captions
  • video accessibility
  • user-generated content
  • sound event detection
  • graphic captions