Literature Reviews

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

• Automatic Assessment of Speech Capability Loss in Disordered Speech

  Thomas Pellegrini, Lionel Fontan, Julie Mauclair, Jérôme Farinas, Charlotte Alazard-Guiu, Marina Robert, Peggy Gatignol (2015) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper investigates whether the Goodness of Pronunciation (GOP) algorithm, originally developed for computer-assisted language learning to detect non-native speaker mispronunciations, can be repurposed to assess speech capability loss in people w…

  • disordered speech
  • speech assessment
  • automatic speech recognition
  • facial palsy
  • pronunciation assessment
  • speech pathology
  • rehabilitation

• Perspectives on Speech and Language Interaction for Daily Assistive Technology: Introduction to Part 1 of the Special Issue

  Heidi Christensen, Frank Rudzicz, François Portet, Jan Alexandersson (2015) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This editorial introduces the first part of a TACCESS special issue on speech and language interaction for daily assistive technology, emerging from the 2013 SLPAT (Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies) workshop. The editors fram…

  • speech recognition
  • disordered speech
  • dysarthria
  • speech intelligibility
  • assistive technology
  • automatic speech recognition
  • clinical assessment
  • speech pathology
  • natural language processing