Gestures

Glint has two gestures. Everything else is a key on the board.

Raise your eyebrows to select

Raise both eyebrows clearly when the item you want is highlighted, hold for a moment, then relax completely.

It fires while your eyebrows are still up, about a quarter of a second after you raise them.
You must relax before the next select. One long raise selects only once.
If you were a moment late and the highlight just moved on, Glint assumes you meant the previous item.

Watch the Eyebrows trace at the bottom of the board. Your raise should cross the dashed line. If it does not, raise higher.

An illustrated shape, not recorded data. On the test recording one of three raises was missed because the eyebrows stayed at +10.9% to +28.9% after the raise before it, never dropping under the +10% line.

Breathe out slowly to speak

Breathe in, then let the air out gently over about three seconds.

A normal breath is too short to count. The fall must last at least 2.5 seconds.
A sharp sigh falls too fast to count.
It will not fire while you are talking.
With no text typed, it does nothing, so ordinary breathing cannot make Glint speak an empty line.

Illustrated shapes on one shared scale, not recorded data. The 2.5 s limit is the detector's. On the test recording, cued slow exhales fell for 2.9 to 6.1 s, while natural breaths and speech fell for 2.4 s or less.

A slow breath at rest can look exactly like the gesture. On the test recording this happened twice in about two and a half minutes. If you have text typed, it will be spoken.

Keyboard and switches

Key	Does
`Space`	Select
`Enter`	Speak and copy
`Esc`	Stop and turn off the camera

Many physical assistive switches can be set to send these keys.

Gestures

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Breathe out slowly to speakCopy Anchor Link

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Raise your eyebrows to select

Breathe out slowly to speak

Keyboard and switches