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In online studies, adding a pause between words improved how well people identified speech recognition errors by ear, compared with no pause.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“adding a pause between words improves error identification compared to no pause”
Identifying speech input errors through audio-only interaction, Jonggi Hong and Leah Findlater, CHI 2018 Extended Abstracts (ACM), 2018, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- Crowdsourced studies 2 to 4 of the four-study paper.
- What it does not show
- Measures listening to synthetic read-back of recognized text, not reading your own draft on screen.