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A Low-Resource Speech-Driven NLP Pipeline for Sinhala Dyslexia Assistance
Peshala Perera, Deshan Sumanathilaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04750 https://arx…

A Low-Resource Speech-Driven NLP Pipeline for Sinhala Dyslexia Assistance
Dyslexia in adults remains an under-researched and under-served area, particularly in non-English-speaking contexts, despite its significant impact on personal and professional lives. This work addresses that gap by focusing on Sinhala, a low-resource language with limited tools for linguistic accessibility. We present an assistive system explicitly designed for Sinhala-speaking adults with dyslexia. The system integrates Whisper for speech-to-text conversion, SinBERT, an open-sourced fine-tune…