ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1991
ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1991

A comparison of document composition using a listening typewriter and conventional office systems

Iain R. Murray, John L. Arnott, Alan E. Newell

An experiment which compared and contrasted different means of document composition is described. The systems compared were a fully speech-driven word processor (accepting only spoken text input and editing commands), a simple keyboard-driven word processor and a dictating process. Rates of composition were investigated for the different composition methods. Keywords: word processing; document composition; speech recognition; dictation.