Fluent: An AI Augmented Writing Tool for People who Stutter
Fluent: An AI Augmented Writing Tool for People who Stutter
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10.1145/3441852.3471211
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2021-08
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Bhavya Ghai;Klaus Mueller
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作者：
Bhavya Ghai;Klaus Mueller
口吃是一种言语障碍，影响着全球数百万人的个人和职业生活。为了避免耻辱和歧视，口吃者(PWS)可能会采取不同的策略来掩盖他们的口吃。一种常见的策略是单词替换，即个体避免说出他们可能结巴的单词，而使用另一个替代单词。这一过程本身会造成压力，增加更多负担。在这项工作中，我们介绍了流畅，一个人工智能增强的写作工具，帮助PWS编写脚本，使他们可以更流利地说。流利体现了一种基于主动学习的新颖方法，可以识别个人可能难以发音的单词。这样的文字会在界面中突出显示。当鼠标悬停在任何这样的单词上时，流利的呈现了一组意思相似但更容易说出来的替代单词。用户可以自由接受或忽略这些建议。基于这样的用户交互(反馈)，流畅不断地发展其分类器，以更好地适应每个用户的个性化需求。我们通过测量我们的工具为10个模拟用户识别困难单词的能力来评估我们的工具。我们发现，在20次以下的交互中，我们的工具可以识别出80%以上的难词，并且随着反馈的增加，它的识别能力不断提高。我们的工具可用于某些重要的生活场合，如演讲、演示等。该工具的源代码已在githorb.com/bhavyaghai/fluent上公开可用。
Stuttering is a speech disorder which impacts the personal and professional lives of millions of people worldwide. To save themselves from stigma and discrimination, people who stutter (PWS) may adopt different strategies to conceal their stuttering. One of the common strategies is word substitution where an individual avoids saying a word they might stutter on and use an alternative instead. This process itself can cause stress and add more burden. In this work, we present Fluent, an AI augmented writing tool which assists PWS in writing scripts which they can speak more fluently. Fluent embodies a novel active learning based method of identifying words an individual might struggle pronouncing. Such words are highlighted in the interface. On hovering over any such word, Fluent presents a set of alternative words which have similar meaning but are easier to speak. The user is free to accept or ignore these suggestions. Based on such user interaction (feedback), Fluent continuously evolves its classifier to better suit the personalized needs of each user. We evaluated our tool by measuring its ability to identify difficult words for 10 simulated users. We found that our tool can identify difficult words with a mean accuracy of over 80% in under 20 interactions and it keeps improving with more feedback. Our tool can be beneficial for certain important life situations like giving a talk, presentation, etc. The source code for this tool has been made publicly accessible at github.com/bhavyaghai/Fluent.