Automatic Speech Recognition

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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November 7, 2024
November 7, 2024
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Disparities in Whisper’s Automatic Speech Recognition Performance on Disfluent Speech

By Charan Sridhar (Research & Engineering Intern at AImpower.org) Introduction to Speech to Text Software Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) technologies are something most of us take for granted. These technologies process spoken language and convert it into written text, and most of us use them nearly every day through tools […]
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May 20, 2024
May 20, 2024
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CHI 2024 Trip Report

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is one of the biggest, most renowned research conference on Human Computer Interactions – and, according to the president of ACM during the conference opening speech, “the only ACM conference that includes 'human’ in it’s name”. As we study and […]
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February 20, 2024
February 20, 2024
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Science without Walls – AImpower’s presentation at AAAS 2024 Annual Meeting

By Shaomei Wu I was very excited to speak at American Association for Advancements in Science’s Annual Meeting last week in Denver, with the support and sponsorship from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). This year’s meeting theme is “Science without Walls”, which aligns so well with AImpower.org’s mission to dismantle […]
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April 20, 2023
April 20, 2023
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Stuttering and Voice-activated AI: Panel Reflections

I recently attended the “Voice-Activated AI for Stuttered Speech Convergence Symposium” organized by Michigan State University, Friends, and West Michigan University. I was honored to speak at Sociotechnical Challenges in Voice-Activated AI Panel with a fantastic group of panelists and participants from academic, industry, and nonprofits. It was an incredible […]
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March 28, 2022
March 28, 2022
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Speech Technology for People Who Stutter

Speech recognition technology has progressed a lot in recent years, especially when using modern deep learning techniques. While new models such as Facebook AI Research’s wav2vec has achieved 2.43 WER (Word Error Rate) in research benchmark dataset, their performance usually tanks when processing atypical speech, such as, speech by people who stutter, […]
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