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most citedFrom User Perceptions to Technical Improvement: Enabling People Who Stutter to Better Use Speech Recognition

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5 papers

cs.SD2025

Voice Quality Dimensions as Interpretable Primitives for Speaking Style for Atypical Speech and Affect

Jaya Narain, Vasudha Kowtha, Colin Lea +8

Perceptual voice quality dimensions describe key characteristics of atypical speech and other speech modulations. Here we develop and evaluate voice quality models for seven voice…

eess.AS2023

Latent Phrase Matching for Dysarthric Speech

Colin Lea, Dianna Yee, Jaya Narain +4

Many consumer speech recognition systems are not tuned for people with speech disabilities, resulting in poor recognition and user experience, especially for severe speech differen…

cs.HC2023★ 2 cited

From User Perceptions to Technical Improvement: Enabling People Who Stutter to Better Use Speech Recognition

Colin Lea, Zifang Huang, Lauren Tooley +6

Consumer speech recognition systems do not work as well for many people with speech diferences, such as stuttering, relative to the rest of the general population. However, what is…

eess.AS2022★ 1 cited

Nonverbal Sound Detection for Disordered Speech

Colin Lea, Zifang Huang, Dhruv Jain +5

Voice assistants have become an essential tool for people with various disabilities because they enable complex phone- or tablet-based interactions without the need for fine-graine…

eess.AS2021

Analysis and Tuning of a Voice Assistant System for Dysfluent Speech

Vikramjit Mitra, Zifang Huang, Colin Lea +8

Dysfluencies and variations in speech pronunciation can severely degrade speech recognition performance, and for many individuals with moderate-to-severe speech disorders, voice op…