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Vertanen reports that when dictating with a large-vocabulary recognizer, correcting errors takes up most of the task time.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“When using a large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer to dictate text, correcting errors dominates task time”
Speech and Speech Recognition during Dictation Corrections, Keith Vertanen, Interspeech 2006 (ICSLP), Pittsburgh, 2006, Introduction.
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- What it does not show
- A qualitative finding from a 2006 paper. It does not give a percentage.
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