July 25, 2023
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.
June 13, 2023
Join us at the "Claim Your Virtual Presence" workshop at the National Stuttering Association's Annual Conference this year!
May 31, 2023
We reflect our recent trip to the CHI and W4A conferences and share our learnings.
April 20, 2023
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 […]
January 20, 2023
Post-OSS updates and reflections (1/24/2023) I tried out the format of doing the “live” presentation with a recorded talk (slides) today, and it worked surprisingly well, especially for virtual meetings! How it works: What I like about this format: I am so glad that we tried out this format – […]
January 18, 2023
We are excited to share that, our research with the stuttering community on their videoconferencing experience has been accepted by the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23)! Our paper, titled “‘The World is Designed for Fluent People’: Benefits and Challenges of Videoconferencing Technologies for People […]
November 1, 2022
We share the updates and highlight from our recent interview research with people who stutter on their experiences with videoconferences and videoconferencing technologies.
August 26, 2022
Lindsay and Shaomei had a discussion about Shaomei's recent experience at the National Stuttering Association annual conference, covering topics across AImpower's goals, Shaomei's personal identity as PWS, her connection to the stuttering community, and the lessons she learned at the conference.
March 28, 2022
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, […]