Fact · Dictation
In the 1992 study, participants made significantly more memorization errors when using speech than the mouse to activate commands.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Subjects made significantly more memorization errors when using speech as compared with the mouse for command activation.”
Speech-Activated versus Mouse-Activated Commands for Word Processing Applications: An Empirical Evaluation, Lewis Karl et al., Unpublished manuscript, University of Maryland (PDF hosted by Ben Shneiderman's site), 1992, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- The authors found that the speed gain came with more errors in remembering the spoken command words.
- What it does not show
- A 1992 result on command vocabulary. It supports advice to learn a few commands at a time, not a current error rate.