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61.0percent of respondents
Of the people who stutter who were familiar with voice assistants, 61 percent named being cut off before they finished talking as a reason they used them less often.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“voice assistants cut off my speech before I finish talking’ (61.0%, n=36/59)”
From User Perceptions to Technical Improvement: Enabling People Who Stutter to Better Use Speech Recognition (full text), Colin Lea et al., Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (arXiv preprint), 2023, Section 3 (survey).
Open the original (DOI 10.48550/arXiv.2302.09044)- What it measures
- The survey asked people who stutter why they used voice assistants less often. The denominator is the 59 respondents familiar with voice assistants who answered this question.
- What it does not show
- A survey of 59 people, recruited through social media, so it describes experiences rather than prevalence.
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