Real Time Event Reporting With Contextual Information Along Navigable Routes

Aspects of the technology relate to real time event tracking for generating and providing summaries of events reported by users along navigable routes. An example real time event can be a traffic event that is observed by a user navigating along a route provided by a navigation system. The tracking system can receive verbal descriptions of events and contextual information for a navigable route on which a user computing device in communication with the tracking system may be operated. Contextual information can be any type of information relating to the navigable route, for example previous maneuvers or upcoming maneuvers. User input may be received while a user is operating a vehicle or otherwise preoccupied and the tracking system avoids complicated and information-dense user interfaces with various predetermined user-interactable elements for event types that may be slow or hazardous to interact with and use to report an event in real time.