Keith Vertanen


Hello and welcome to my new and improved home page!

Here you can find out what I do for fun, including photography and travel.

You can also find out what I do at work, including publications and software. My primary research interest lies at the intersection of speech recognition and human-computer interaction (HCI). In particular, I am interested in how multiple input modalities can be combined to efficiently correct errors in speech recognition. My goal is to utilize the rich information available to the recognizer to better enable user-guided correction. I am also interested in improving the performance, usability, and accessibility of text entry interfaces.

Recent research projects include:

Parakeet on an Nokia N800

Parakeet, a system for speech recognition on a touch-screen mobile device.

Speech Dasher

Speech Dasher, a correction interface using speech and navigation by pointing.

Keith using the voice web search interface

Spoken web searches on a mobile device.