1Vox --- Your Query Is Our Command

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Device Used: Motorola Droid on Verizon

Speech interface designers often express surprize at the the factthat the average blind user rarely if ever uses spoken input. Butwhen you come down to it, this is not too surprizing --- giventhat the eyes-free user has speech output active, the overall system ends up talking to itself!

To show that these conflicts can be avoided by careful user-interface design,we demonstrate 1Vox --- our voice-search wizard for the Marvin Shell.

1. You activate 1Vox by stroke 9 on the Marvin screen.
2. You hear a spoekn prompt Search
3. You hear a little auditory icon when the system is readyfor you.
4. You speak oft-used queries e.g., Weather Mountain View.
5. You hear a short spoken snippet in response.

We called this widget 1Vox --- in honor of the Google onebox foundon the Google Results page.

Author: T.V Raman<raman@google.com>