Peer-reviewed research
GestureVoice: Enabling Multimodal Text Editing for Blind Users Using Gestures and Voice
Prerna Khanna et al., ASSETS '25, ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2025 · DOI 10.1145/3663547.3746388
Read the originalRead on October 16, 2026
- What it is
- A system that lets blind users edit dictated text with smartwatch gestures and voice commands, rather than with a touchscreen and screen reader. The paper reports a formative study of text-editing problems and an evaluation with eight blind users.
- How much weight it carries
- Peer-reviewed ASSETS 2025 paper with a camera-ready PDF. The evaluation uses eight participants and a research prototype that needs a smartwatch, so it shows a direction for editing research, not a product that most readers can use today.
Facts taken from this source
- In its evaluation with eight blind users, the GestureVoice system achieved a 53.80 percent reduction in text editing time.
“our evaluation with 8 blind users demonstrates that Ges- tureVoice achieves a 53.80% reduction in text editing time” (Abstract)