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AD4EDU: Benchmarking University Lecture Audio Description across Accessibility Standards, Metrics, and Learner Preferences
Stylianos Psychias, Psychias Stylianos, Yingqiang Gao +1
Audio description (AD) aims to enhance the accessibility of visual media for blind and low-vision (BLV) persons. However, in higher education, where slide-based lectures are a defa…
When Audio-Language Models Fail to Leverage Multimodal Context for Dysarthric Speech Recognition
Pehuén Moure, Niclas Pokel, Bilal Bounajma +4
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems remain brittle on dysarthric and other atypical speech. Recent audio-language models raise the possibility of improving performance by co…
Generating and Evaluating Sustainable Procurement Criteria for the Swiss Public Sector using In-Context Prompting with Large Language Models
Yingqiang Gao, Veton Matoshi, Luca Rolshoven +5
Public procurement refers to the process by which public sector institutions, such as governments, municipalities, and publicly funded bodies, acquire goods and services. Swiss law…
Two-Stage Adaptation for Non-Normative Speech Recognition: Revisiting Speaker-Independent Initialization for Personalization
Shan Jiang, Jiawen Qi, Chuanbing Huo +2
Personalizing automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for non-normative speech, such as dysarthric and aphasic speech, is challenging. While speaker-specific fine-tuning (SS-FT)…