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title = "Examining Prosody in Spoken Navigation Instructions for People with Disabilities",
author = "Jiao, Cathy and
Steinfeld, Aaron and
Eskenazi, Maxine",
editor = "Blodgett, Su Lin and
Curry, Amanda Cercas and
Dev, Sunipa and
Madaio, Michael and
Nenkova, Ani and
Yang, Diyi and
Xiao, Ziang",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Bridging Human--Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing",
month = jun,
year = "2024",
address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.hcinlp-1.1",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.hcinlp-1.1",
pages = "1--12",
abstract = "The introduction of conversational systems have made synthesized speech technologies common tools for daily activities. However, not all synthetic speech systems are designed with the needs of people with disabilities in mind. This paper describes a study in which 198 people {--} 80 participants with self-reported disabilities and 118 participants without {--} were recruited to listen to navigation instructions from a spoken dialogue system with different prosodic features. Results showed that slowing down speech rate aids in participants{'} number recall, but not in noun recall. From our results, we provide suggestions for developers for building accessible synthetic speech systems.",
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%T Examining Prosody in Spoken Navigation Instructions for People with Disabilities
%A Jiao, Cathy
%A Steinfeld, Aaron
%A Eskenazi, Maxine
%Y Blodgett, Su Lin
%Y Curry, Amanda Cercas
%Y Dev, Sunipa
%Y Madaio, Michael
%Y Nenkova, Ani
%Y Yang, Diyi
%Y Xiao, Ziang
%S Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Bridging Human–Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing
%D 2024
%8 June
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Mexico City, Mexico
%F jiao-etal-2024-examining
%X The introduction of conversational systems have made synthesized speech technologies common tools for daily activities. However, not all synthetic speech systems are designed with the needs of people with disabilities in mind. This paper describes a study in which 198 people – 80 participants with self-reported disabilities and 118 participants without – were recruited to listen to navigation instructions from a spoken dialogue system with different prosodic features. Results showed that slowing down speech rate aids in participants’ number recall, but not in noun recall. From our results, we provide suggestions for developers for building accessible synthetic speech systems.
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Markdown (Informal)
[Examining Prosody in Spoken Navigation Instructions for People with Disabilities](https://aclanthology.org/2024.hcinlp-1.1) (Jiao et al., HCINLP-WS 2024)
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