Leah Findlater — accepted AI-conference papers

2024

Rapidly Piloting Real-time Linguistic Assistance for Simultaneous Interpreters with Untrained Bilingual Surrogates

Alvin Grissom II, Jo Shoemaker, Ben Goldman, Ruikang Shi, Craig Stewart, C. Anton Rytting +2

COLING 2024main

Simultaneous interpretation is a cognitively taxing task, and even seasoned professionals benefit from real-time assistance. However, both recruiting professional interpreters and evaluating new assistance techniques are difficult. We present a novel, realistic simultaneous interpretation task that…

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2022

Nonverbal Sound Detection for Disordered Speech

Colin Lea, Zifang Huang, Dhruv Jain, Lauren Tooley, Zeinab Liaghat, Shrinath Thelapurath +2

ICASSP 2022accepted

Voice assistants have become an essential tool for people with various disabilities because they enable complex phone-or tablet-based interactions without the need for fine-grained motor control, such as with touchscreens. However, these systems are not tuned for the unique characteristics of indivi…

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