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VR and AR simulations help users practice stress management in realistic scenarios
Everyday situations can sometimes feel like big stressors, whether it's delivering an important work presentation, attending a party full of strangers or confronting a partner. Talking to a friend or a therapist can help. But so can practice.

Towards Temporally Explainable Dysarthric Speech Clarity Assessment
Seohyun Park, Chitralekha Gupta, Michelle Kah Yian Kwan, Xinhui Fung, Alexander Wenjun Yip, Suranga Nanayakkara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00454

Towards Temporally Explainable Dysarthric Speech Clarity Assessment
Dysarthria, a motor speech disorder, affects intelligibility and requires targeted interventions for effective communication. In this work, we investigate automated mispronunciation feedback by collecting a dysarthric speech dataset from six speakers reading two passages, annotated by a speech therapist with temporal markers and mispronunciation descriptions. We design a three-stage framework for explainable mispronunciation evaluation: (1) overall clarity scoring, (2) mispronunciation localiza…

Artificial Empathy: AI based Mental Health
Aditya Naik, Jovi Thomas, Teja Sree, Himavant Reddy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00081 https://

Artificial Empathy: AI based Mental Health
Many people suffer from mental health problems but not everyone seeks professional help or has access to mental health care. AI chatbots have increasingly become a go-to for individuals who either have mental disorders or simply want someone to talk to. This paper presents a study on participants who have previously used chatbots and a scenario-based testing of large language model (LLM) chatbots. Our findings indicate that AI chatbots were primarily utilized as a "Five minute therapist" or as …

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Today was my mother's birthday, the second year without her.
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