Melissa Guzzo – https://blogs.ubc.ca/webspaces/2021/09/10/melissa-guzzo/

It was such a relief to find that both Melissa and myself had faced the same issues when converting speech to text for our week three task. The lack of punctuation, grammar, and spelling mistakes was evident in both our tasks. We both agree that a scripted story would have had a better flow. Although, Melissa did not seem to discuss getting distracted by the task at hand and produced a remarkable story regardless of the shortcoming of Chromes speech-to-text extension tool. Even though we had used the different speech-to-text tools, it seems as though both are pledged with the same issues regarding grammar, punctuation, spelling, and correctly noting slang or more colloquial language. Melissa also points out how the speech-to-text tools lack the ability to incorporate “nonverbal cues like the body language, facial expression, tone of voice and pitch, etc” that could be added to create a more rich reading experience. All things considered, both Melissa and my speech t text tool did as the names describe. They turned the speech into text. 

I would have also preferred if Melissa could have recorded herself as she was using chromes text to speech tool. The post itself is very well put together and otherwise is a delight to pursue and engage with. Mellisa has also broken down the tasks questions to answer in a very organized fashion that may explore where chromes speech to text tool excelled and faulters more digestible for a reader.