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VoiceWriting: a completely speech-based text editor

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CHItaly '21: Proceedings of the 14th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter

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Assistive technologies, mostly based on speech recognition and synthesis, help visually-impaired people writing text on digital devices. However, they do not fully support non-sequential text editing without the use of sight. This paper discusses the design of the interaction protocol underlying the first prototype of a text editor that is especially designed for people with very poor eyesight. It does not require the visual localization of text for non-sequential editing of multiple-paragraph documents and only exploits voice and ”uninterpreted” keyboard input, namely the outmoded ”press any key” for mode-switching. Preliminary tests complete the paper.

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Di Vincenzo MPalini FDe Marsico MBorghi ABaldassarre G(2022)A Natural Human-Drone Embodied Interface: Empirical Comparison With a Traditional InterfaceFrontiers in Neurorobotics10.3389/fnbot.2022.89885916Online publication date: 14-Oct-2022
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