A5067706117- Speech Recognition and Synthesis
- Text Readability and Simplification
- Technology Use by Older Adults
- Subtitles and Audiovisual Media
- Digital Accessibility for Disabilities
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Music and Audio Processing
- Persona Design and Applications
- Video Analysis and Summarization
- Speech and Audio Processing
Stuttgart Media University
2022-2024
For d/Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people, captioning is an essential accessibility tool. Significant developments in artificial intelligence (AI) mean that Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) now a part many popular applications. This makes creating captions easy broadly available - but transcription needs high levels accuracy to be accessible. Scientific publications industry report very low error rates, claiming AI has reached human parity or even outperforms manual transcription. At the...
This paper examines approaches to developing authentic accessibility personas that can help improve the design of products for persons with disabilities. Personas have been a controversial empathy-building tool shown potentially harmful effects on accessible when they are not well-made or used appropriately. In this study we describe nested co-design approach involves as product and tool, includes disabilities at multiple stages in functions within process. These context improvement digital...