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Voice key board: multimodal indic text input

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Prasenjit Dey,

Ramchandrula Sitaram,

Rahul Ajmera,

Kalika BaliAuthors Info & Claims

ICMI-MLMI '09: Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Multimodal interfaces

Pages 313 - 318

https://doi.org/10.1145/1647314.1647380

Published: 02 November 2009 Publication History

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Multimodal systems, incorporating more natural input modalities like speech, hand gesture, facial expression etc., can make human-computer-interaction more intuitive by drawing inspiration from spontaneous human-human-interaction. We present here a multimodal input device for Indic scripts called the Voice Key Board (VKB) which offers a simpler and more intuitive method for input of Indic scripts. VKB exploits the syllabic nature of Indic language scripts and exploits the user's mental model of Indic scripts wherein a base consonant character is modified by different vowel ligatures to represent the actual syllabic character. We also present a user evaluation result for VKB comparing it with the most common input method for the Devanagari script, the InScript keyboard. The results indicate a strong user preference for VKB in terms of input speed and learnability. Though VKB starts with a higher user error rate compared to InScript, the error rate drops by 55% by the end of the experiment, and the input speed of VKB is found to be 81% higher than InScript. Our user study results point to interesting research directions for the use of multiple natural modalities for Indic text input.

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Voice key board: multimodal indic text input
1. Hardware
  1. Communication hardware, interfaces and storage
    1. Sound-based input / output
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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ICMI-MLMI '09: Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Multimodal interfaces

November 2009

374 pages

ISBN:9781605587721

DOI:10.1145/1647314

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Karusala NVishwanath AVashistha AKumar SKumar NMandryk RHancock MPerry MCox A(2018)"Only if you use English you will get to more things"Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3173574.3174147(1-14)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2018
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