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The authors identify text accuracy and lag time as the major obstacles to using speech recognition in group conversation for deaf and hard of hearing people.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Major obstacles that limit ASR use in group conversation for deaf and hard of hearing includes text accuracy and lag time.”
Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Hearing Perspectives on using Automatic Speech Recognition in Conversation, Abraham Glasser et al., ASSETS 2017 (also arXiv 1909.01176), 2017, Section 4, ASR for Conversational Use.
Open the original- What it measures
- The authors surveyed how deaf, hard of hearing and hearing people used automatic speech recognition in conversation, and this sentence sets out the main problems they saw.
- What it does not show
- A qualitative finding from a study of perspectives, not a measured error rate.