Fact · Accessibility and health
Nowrin and Vertanen state that visual feedback may not always be practical for people who are blind or low-vision when they check recognized speech.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“While visual feedback can help detect errors, it may not always be practical, especially for people who are blind or low-vision.”
Using Confidence Scores to Improve Eyes-free Detection of Speech Recognition Errors, Sadia Nowrin and Keith Vertanen, arXiv, 2024, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- The statement motivates a study of audio-only error detection, which is the situation a blind person faces when reviewing dictated text.
- What it does not show
- A statement of motivation in a preprint. It is not itself a measured result.