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The 2023 study notes that many dictation systems do not use an automatic endpointer, so people who stutter were cut off less often in dictation than with voice assistants.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“many dictation systems do not use an automatic endpointer”
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
- Participants reported that being cut off happened much less often with dictation than with voice assistants, which the authors tie to this difference in design.
- What it does not show
- The statement is the authors' explanation of the survey results, not a measured rate for each dictation product.