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Improving Speech Recognition for Communication-oriented Activities

Andrew Sears, ERCIM News, No. 46, 2001

Read on October 16, 2026

What it is: A short article by Andrew Sears, then of the University of Maryland and IBM, reporting a preliminary study of users dictating with a speech recognizer. Participants spent most of their time correcting errors, and a large share navigating within the document.
How much weight it carries: A magazine article summarizing an early study with a small sample, a recognizer from around 2001 and a preliminary analysis. Its figures are the authors' own and have not been replicated in the sources reviewed for this guide. Use them as a dated indication, not a current benchmark.

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In the same 2001 study, users spent over 32 percent of their time moving from one place to another within the document.
“these users spent over 32% of their time navigating from one location to another within the document” (Article text)
In a preliminary 2001 study of dictation with a speech recognizer, users spent over 65 percent of their time correcting errors and less than 35 percent dictating.
“Our results confirmed that these individuals spent less than 35% of their time dictating and over 65% of their time correcting errors in the dictation.” (Article text)

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Andrew Sears, ERCIM News, No. 46, 2001

Read on October 16, 2026

What it is: A short article by Andrew Sears, then of the University of Maryland and IBM, reporting a preliminary study of users dictating with a speech recognizer. Participants spent most of their time correcting errors, and a large share navigating within the document.
How much weight it carries: A magazine article summarizing an early study with a small sample, a recognizer from around 2001 and a preliminary analysis. Its figures are the authors' own and have not been replicated in the sources reviewed for this guide. Use them as a dated indication, not a current benchmark.

In the same 2001 study, users spent over 32 percent of their time moving from one place to another within the document.
“these users spent over 32% of their time navigating from one location to another within the document” (Article text)
In a preliminary 2001 study of dictation with a speech recognizer, users spent over 65 percent of their time correcting errors and less than 35 percent dictating.
“Our results confirmed that these individuals spent less than 35% of their time dictating and over 65% of their time correcting errors in the dictation.” (Article text)