Exploring the use of speech input by blind people on mobile devices

Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Azenkot, Shiri ^a   Lee, Nicole B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dictation; Eyes free; Mobile devices; Text entry

Indexed keywords

BLIND PEOPLE; DETECTION METHODS; DICTATION; EYES-FREE; ON-SCREEN KEYBOARD; RECOGNITION ERROR; SPEECH INPUT; TEXT ENTRY;

ERROR DETECTION; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; MOBILE DEVICES; SURVEYS;

SPEECH;

EID: 84887444106     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2513383.2513440     Document Type: Conference Paper

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