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  • Scanning for Digital Content: How Blind and Sighted People Perceive Concurrent Speech

    João Guerreiro, Daniel Gonçalves · 2016 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

    This paper investigates whether blind and sighted people can leverage concurrent speech — multiple audio streams playing simultaneously — to more efficiently scan and identify relevant digital content, exploiting the well-known Cocktail Party Effect. Screen readers currently…

    visual impairment · concurrent speech · auditory interface · screen reader · cocktail party effect

  • Faster Text-to-Speeches: Enhancing Blind People's Information Scanning with Faster Concurrent Speech

    João Guerreiro, Daniel Gonçalves · 2015 · ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

    This paper investigates how blind users can scan digital information more efficiently by comparing two approaches: increasing speech rate (the traditional method) versus using concurrent speech (multiple simultaneous voices). The research leverages the "Cocktail Party…

    blindness · screen readers · text-to-speech · speech rate · concurrent speech

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