Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
5 results found tagged word error rate.
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Challenges in Automatic Speech Recognition for Adults with Cognitive Impairment
This CHI 2026 paper quantifies how well state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) handles voice commands produced by older adults with cognitive impairment, and asks which acoustic features actually predict transcription accuracy. The autho…
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Measuring the Accuracy of Automatic Speech Recognition Solutions
This study provides independent, comprehensive benchmarking of 11 common automatic speech recognition (ASR) services to assess their real-world accuracy for accessibility purposes. The research addresses a critical gap: while vendors claim "state-of-…
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Exploration of Automatic Speech Recognition for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Higher Education Classes
This paper presents a qualitative study of how deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (Rochester Institute of Technology) experienced automatic speech recognition (ASR) as a supplemental access servic…
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Enhancing Accessibility through Correction of Speech Recognition Errors
This paper investigates methods for automatically correcting errors in speech recognition-generated captions of university lectures, aiming to improve accessibility for hearing-impaired students. The author notes that while ASR-based captioning can m…
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Predicting the Understandability of Imperfect English Captions for People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
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…