Tech4ALL Digest, July 2

Our Progress

• Our collaborated research with StammerTalk community on fair speech AI for stuttering is accepted by InterSpeech 2024! Our paper reports the community-led process to collecting and annotating one of the largest stuttered speech corpus of conversational and voice command speech, as well as the effectiveness of finetuning existing ASR models using our corpus in improving ASR accuracy for stuttered speech. Read the preprint at arXiv, and join us in making speech AI more inclusive more all!
• Our paper, titled “’I Want to Publicize My Stutter’: Community-led Collection and Curation of Chinese Stuttered Speech Data” has been accepted by CSCW 2024! We discuss the (huge) benefits and (practical) challenges of grassroots AI data collection with and by the StammerTalk community over an extensive ethnographic study of community’s working process, motivation, and sentiments. Read the preprint and help us build a just and inclusive data model with marginalized communities.
• Our paper, “Re-envisioning Remote Meetings: Co-designing Inclusive and Empowering Videoconferencing with People Who Stutter”, just received an honorable mention for the best paper award at the **ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)** 2024! We thank the reviewers and conference organizing committee for their recognition and invite you to read the full paper here.

One Story

In this inspiring TED talk, Simone George and Mark Pollock share their journey of love and scientific exploration following Mark’s blindness and paralysis. They discuss groundbreaking research into curing paralysis, including robotic exoskeletons and spinal stimulation, while emphasizing the balance between accepting reality and maintaining hope. Full Video: >> A love letter to realism in a time of grief | Mark Pollock and Simone George

One Product

“Wheel the World wants to open the world up to people with disabilities and has made it its mission since 2018 to provide travel accommodations and experiences that fit their needs, both in the United States and worldwide.” Full article >> Wheel the World grabs $6M to offer guaranteed accessibility, price match for hotel rooms

One Tip

Technology can help marginalized communities access behavioral healthcare by providing real-time treatment information, tracking patient care journeys, and educating about available resources. These innovations aim to address disparities in mental health treatment and improve outcomes for underserved populations. Full article >> Technology Can Help Marginalized Communities Gain Access To Behavioral Healthcare

One Event

Date: 2024-07-03

The National Federation of the Blind National Convention is the largest gathering of blind people in the world. It is the premier event for training, support, and information for the blind community. The National Convention is open to all and offers hundreds of sessions, dynamic presentations, and countless opportunities. Full Info >>

Jobs

Zearn is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization behind Zearn Math, the top-rated math learning platform used by 1 in 4 elementary-school students and by more than 1 million middle-school students nationwide. Zearn have many positions opening, including translation associate, product manager and so on.   Full Info >> Zearn