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- J.S. Yaruss, H. Gerlach-Houck, C. Herring, C. Johnson, M. Arney, J. Bin, D. Mujtaba, A. Dhaka, A. Mathur, S. Unnithan, and N.R. Mahapatra, “Improving Voice AI Accessibility: Insights from Interdisciplinary Research on Stuttering,” 2025 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Washington D.C. , Nov. 2025.
- H. Gerlach-Houck, “Exploring the Impact of Voice AI in the Workplace for People who Stutter," 50 Million Voices 9th Global Practice Interview Event, Oct. 2025.
- J.S. Yaruss, and J. Bin. “Stuttering Matters: Reimagining Voice AI Through Inclusive Design,” 2025 Annual National Stuttering Association Convention, Jul. 2025.
- H. Gerlach-Houck, C. Herring, J.S. Yaruss, A.M. Ryan, and N.R. Mahapatra. “VoiceAI for Everyone: Ensuring Usability and Access in Digital Environments,” Interagency Accessibility Forum, May 2025.
- N.R. Mahapatra, H. Gerlach-Houck, C. Herring, and J.S. Yaruss. “HeardAI,” 2025 Innovation Celebration, East Lansing, MI, Apr. 2025.
- J.S. Yaruss, N.R. Mahapatra, C. Herring, H. Gerlach-Houck, A.M. Ryan, C. Johnson, M. Arney, J. Bin, and D. Mujtaba. “HeardAI: Increasing Accuracy of Voice-Activated Technology for Stuttering and Beyond,” 2025 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, Anaheim, CA, Mar. 2025.
- H. Gerlach-Houck, N.R. Mahapatra, A.M. Ryan, C. Herring, J.S. Yaruss, C. Johnson, J. Bin, M. Arney, and D. Mujtaba. “Voice AI for All: Collaborating with the Stuttering Community to Promote Accessibility,” 2025 Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association Conference, Kalamazoo, MI, Mar. 2025.
- J. Bin, C. Herring, H. Gerlach-Houck, N.R. Mahapatra, A.M. Ryan, M. Arney, D. Mujtaba, and J.S. Yaruss, “Breaking Barriers: Enhancing Voice Technology for Stuttering Inclusivity,” 2024 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Seattle, WA, Dec. 2024. 2024 ASHA Convention Visionary Session
- D. Mujtaba, N.R. Mahapatra, M. Arney, J.S. Yaruss, C. Herring, and J. Bin, “Inclusive ASR for disfluent speech: Cascaded large-scale self-supervised learning with targeted fine-tuning and data augmentation,” 25th Interspeech Conference, Kos Island, Greece, Sep. 2024.
- J. Bin, N.R. Mahapatra, A.M. Ryan, C. Herring, H. Gerlach-Houck, and J.S. Yaruss, “Siri, l-l-listen to me: Increasing accessibility of voice-activated technology for the stuttering community,” 27th Annual FRIENDS Convention, Denver, CO, July 2024.
- J. Bin, N.R. Mahapatra, A.M. Ryan, C. Herring, H. Gerlach-Houck, and J.S. Yaruss, “Siri, l-l-listen to me: Increasing accessibility of voice-activated technology for the stuttering community,” 2024 National Stuttering Association Convention, St. Louis, MO, July 2024.
- D. Mujtaba, N.R. Mahapatra, M. Arney, J.S. Yaruss, H. Gerlach-Houck, C. Herring, and J. Bin, “Lost in transcription: Identifying and quantifying the accuracy biases of automatic speech recognition systems against disfluent speech,” 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, Mexico, June 2024.
- C. Herring, M. Arney, D. Mujtaba, J. Bin, H. Gerlach-Houck, N.R. Mahapatra, A.M. Ryan, and J.S. Yaruss, “Increasing accessibility of voice-activated technology for the stuttering community,” 2024 World Congress on Stuttering and Cluttering, Austin, TX, May 2024.
- J. Magalona, A.M. Ryan, H. Gerlach-Houck, C. Herring, and J.S. Yaruss, “Voice-Activated Technology in Hiring and Accommodations for People who Stutter,” Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference , Chicago, IL, April 2024.
- C. Herring, N.R. Mahapatra, H. Gerlach-Houck, A.M. Ryan, D. Mujtaba, J. Bin, M. Arney, and J.S. Yaruss, “Accessibility challenges encountered by people who stutter in the context of voice-activated AI technologies,” National Science Foundation Accessibility Summit, virtual, Feb. 2024.
- H. Gerlach-Houck, C. Herring, N.R. Mahapatra, A.M. Ryan, M. Arney, J. Bin, and J.S. Yaruss, “Siri, l-l-listen to me: Increasing accessibility of voice-activated technology for the stuttering community,” 2023 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Boston, MA, Nov. 2023. 2023 ASHA Convention Changemaker recognition
- H. Gerlach-Houck, C. Herring, N.R. Mahapatra, A.M. Ryan, M. Arney, D. Mujtaba, J. Bin, and J.S. Yaruss, “Inaccessibility of voice-activated technology: Causes, consequences, and solutions for the stuttering community,” 13th Oxford Disfluency Conference, Oxford, UK, Sep. 2023.(Conference Canceled)