We present BARTpho with two versions, BARTpho-syllable and BARTpho-word, which are
the first public large-scale monolingual sequence-to-sequence models pre-trained for …

Real-time captioning is a critical accessibility tool for many d/Deaf and hard of hearing
(DHH) people. While the vast majority of captioning work has focused on formal settings and …

Ensuring proper punctuation and letter casing is a key pre-processing step towards applying
complex natural language processing algorithms. This is especially significant for textual …

With improvements in automated speech recognition and increased use of
videoconferencing, real-time captioning has changed significantly. This shift toward broadly …

Though people rarely speak in complete sentences, punctuation confers many benefits to
the readers of transcribed speech. Unfortunately, most ASR systems do not produce …

Speech is expressive in ways that caption text does not capture, with emotion or emphasis
information not conveyed. We interviewed eight Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (dhh) individuals …

The punctuation restoration task aims to correctly punctuate the output transcriptions of
automatic speech recognition systems. Previous punctuation models, either using text only …

In punctuation restoration, we try to recover the missing punctuation from automatic speech
recognition output to improve understandability. Currently, large pre-trained transformers …

Online video is an important information source, yet its pace of growth, including user-
submitted content, is so rapid that automatic captioning technologies are needed to make …

Oftentimes human computer interactions (HCI) accessibility research designs technology to
support Deaf and disabled people in their existing social contexts. I, instead, propose an …