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.
VoiceWriting: A completely speech-based text editor / De Marsico, M.; Mattei, F. R.. - (2021), pp. 1-5. (Intervento presentato al convegno 14th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter: Frontiers of HCI, CHItaly 2021 tenutosi a Bolzano - Italia) [10.1145/3464385.3464735].
VoiceWriting: A completely speech-based text editor
De Marsico M.;Mattei F. R.
2021
Abstract
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.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
