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December 22, 2025
December 22, 2025
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The Social and Technical Values of a Grassroots Chinese Stuttered Speech Dataset

Our work “Our Collective Voices: The Social and Technical Values of a Grassroots Chinese Stuttered Speech Dataset” was published at ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2025), a leading interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to examine the social, ethical, and political impacts of AI […]
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November 10, 2025
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November 10, 2025
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What’s New with AImpower.org: Sharing Our Technical Work, Progress, and Impact

By Shaomei Wu It’s been a little while since our last update — we’ve been busy! AImpower.org has been accelerating our technical, community, and advocacy efforts, amplifying marginalized voices in shaping emerging technologies. We’ve accomplished a lot, and I’m excited to start sharing what we’ve been up to! Over the […]
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July 5, 2025
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July 5, 2025
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Speech AI for All: Promoting Accessibility, Fairness, Inclusivity, and Equity – CHI 2025 Workshop Recap

In collaboration with researchers and scholars from Carnegie Mellon University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Gallaudet University, Apple, Cornell University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of California, Santa Cruz, and University of Maryland, College Park, we led a CHI 2025 workshop on “Speech AI for All: Promoting Accessibility, Fairness, Inclusivity, […]
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March 28, 2025
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March 28, 2025
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AImpower.org’s 2024 in Review: A Year of Growth and Movement Building

AImpower.org just celebrated its third birthday – we are a toddler now! 🥳 As we enter our fourth year of operations, we want to first reflect on the tremendous strides AImpower.org has made in 2024 in our mission to co-design empowering technologies for, with, and by marginalized communities. The year […]
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March 10, 2025
March 10, 2025
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Stuttered Speech Data for Stutterers, with Stutterers, by Stutterers: Insights from Stuttering Advocates

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have long struggled to accurately recognize and process stuttered speech, largely due to their training on fluency-biased datasets. As a result, people who stutter (PWS) frequently encounter challenges when using voice-activated technologies, automated transcription services, and other speech-based AI tools. This lack of inclusivity and […]
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March 5, 2025
March 5, 2025
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AImpower x UC Santa Cruz Designathon: Innovating for Community-Led AI Initiatives

Summary and reflection on the recent design challenge AImpower.org co-hosted with UC Santa Cruz, on designing inclusive and empowering speech data collection tools for grassroots stuttered speech collection.
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November 18, 2024
November 18, 2024
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AI, Data, Community – CSCW 2024 trip report

By Shaomei Wu The ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) has been the home for community-driven, socially conscious research on computing technologies and their impact on the global society. Several of my previous work on AI-powered accessibility innovations were published on CSCW, such as the Automatic […]
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