Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
3 results found tagged cocktail party effect.
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Text-to-Speeches: Evaluating the Perception of Concurrent Speech by Blind People
This paper investigates whether blind people can leverage the Cocktail Party Effect—the human ability to focus on one speech source among several while still detecting relevant content in the background—to more efficiently scan digital information. S…
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Faster Text-to-Speeches: Enhancing Blind People's Information Scanning with Faster Concurrent Speech
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 t…
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Scanning for Digital Content: How Blind and Sighted People Perceive Concurrent Speech
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.…