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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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March 13, 2024
March 13, 2024
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Co-design Inclusive and Empathetic Videoconferencing Experience with People Who Stutter

Challenges with videoconferencing In this post-pandemic era, videoconferencing has become a prominent medium of communication in both our professional and personal lives. This shift, while bringing many conveniences, also introduces a set of challenges such as reduced non-verbal cues, turn-taking confusion, distractions, and heightened self-consciousness which can lead to “Zoom […]
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October 20, 2023
October 20, 2023
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Community-led Stuttered Speech Collection with StammerTalk

By sharing our experience and findings from StammerTalk’s stuttered speech collection project, we advocate for a new AI data paradigm of community data stewardship, especially for data from and about marginalized communities.
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July 25, 2023
July 25, 2023
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Stuttering and Video Conferencing: Strategies and Best Practices

We report our experience hosting the "Claim Your Virtual Presence" workshop at National Stuttering Association (NSA) conference, and share the strategies and best practices for inclusive video conferencing.
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November 9, 2022
November 9, 2022
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Join us in Austin for Web4All 2023

Web4All is a premier conference for accessibility research, co-located with the Web Conference since 2003. Next year’s conference marks the 20th year anniversary for Web4All (!), and it will take place in Austin, Texas from April 30 to May 1, 2023, with the theme of “Accessibility in the Metaverse“. Shaomei […]
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November 1, 2022
November 1, 2022
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Research Update: Barriers And Opportunities with Videoconferencing for People Who Stutter

We share the updates and highlight from our recent interview research with people who stutter on their experiences with videoconferences and videoconferencing technologies.
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