By Ketih Vertanen and Per Ola Kristensson (Cambridge University)
Comment: Eric Engleking
Summary:
Parakeet is an application to aid the user in correcting entered text in a mobile device. The text is entered by speech recognition.
The study was performed by 4 participants and it used the Nokia N800 as the application platform. Additionally, users were allowed to correct errors by tapping, crossing, copying, replacing, or typing. The study showed that the users greatly lowered their word error rate and used the touch action over the other available methods.
Discussion:
Parakeet seems like a useful addition to a mobile device. With the ease of correction shown, it would be quick and fun to dictate your text messages. Of course, I am sure privacy concerns could arise, but it would be interesting to see its full implementation.
It definitely would be interesting to see! But, we already see people walking around talking to apparently no one on Bluetooth headsets; are we going to see them talking text messages now?
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