Fact · Dictation
20hours
Citing an earlier study, Kraal and colleagues report that users who keep dictating for about 20 hours start to combine voice correction with keyboard and mouse correction.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“subjects who use dictation software for an extended period of time (about 20 hours) tend to augment spoken correction with multimodal correction”
Improving the user interface of dictation software, Ben Kraal et al., Proceedings of the 9th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Melbourne, 2002, 2002, Literature review (body text).
Open the original- What it measures
- The figure comes from Horn et al. (2000), reported in Kraal et al. (2002). It is a rough duration, not a sharp threshold.
- What it does not show
- Secondhand, from a 2000 study, with software of that era. Use it as a rough guide to how long novices take to change habits, not as a fixed number of hours.
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