Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Electrolarynx(also: Artificial Larynx, Electronic Larynx)
- A handheld, battery-powered device that produces voice for people who have lost their larynx. The device is held against the neck or cheek and generates vibrations that travel through the throat tissues into the oral cavity, where the user shapes the vibration into speech using…
- Endpoint Detection(also: Voice Activity Detection, VAD)
- The process by which a speech-recognition system decides when a user has finished speaking, so the system can stop listening and send the captured audio for recognition. Off-the-shelf voice assistants typically use a silence threshold of 500ms-1s, which cuts off users who pause,…
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