Automatic switching between speech and non-speech: adaptive auditory feedback in desktop assistance for the visually impaired

Continual enrichments in auditory interfaces of desktop applications allow visually impaired people to successfully use computers in education, employment, and social interaction. Designers face multiple challenges while producing sound for auditory interfaces. This paper presents a new method of adaptive auditory feedback, which converts speech-only instructions to non-speech (i.e., spearcons), based on users’ interaction with the application...