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Some smartphones let you hold a button while you speak and release it when you finish, which avoids automatic end-of-speech detection.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Some smartphones (e.g., Apple iPhone) offer an alternative to automatic endpointing, where the user can push down a button (physical or virtual) while speaking and only release it when done.”
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 4.2.1 (endpointer).
Open the original (DOI 10.48550/arXiv.2302.09044)- What it measures
- The authors describe this as an alternative to automatic endpointing, relevant to speech that pauses or blocks.
- What it does not show
- The authors describe the option, but the paper does not measure how much it reduces truncation for people who stutter.