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Just Speak It: Minimize Cognitive Load for Eyes-Free Text Editing with a Smart Voice Assistant

Jiayue Fan et al., Proceedings of UIST 2021, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2021

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Read on October 16, 2026

What it is
Researchers at Tsinghua University compared ways of editing dictated text by voice without looking at a screen. Revising by speaking the target words again had a lower failure rate than describing the edit in a command or re-speaking the whole phrase.
How much weight it carries
Peer-reviewed UIST paper, read on 2026-10-16. The study is eyes-free and uses earphone buttons, so it is not a desktop dictation test. Its percentages compare editing methods with each other, not with keyboard editing.
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