Parakeet: a demonstration of speech recognition on a mobile touch-screen device

  • Authors:
  • Keith Vertanen;Per Ola Kristensson

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom;University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We demonstrate Parakeet -- a continuous speech recognition system for mobile touch-screen devices. Parakeet's interface is designed to make correcting errors easy on a handheld device while on the move. Users correct errors using a touch-screen to either select alternative words from a word confusion network or by typing on a predictive software keyboard. Our interface design was guided by computational experiments. We conducted a user study to validate our design. We found novices entered text at 18 WPM while seated indoors and 13 WPM while walking outdoors.