{"id":2096,"date":"2020-06-01T10:57:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T17:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2020-06-01T10:57:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T17:57:25","slug":"mobile-education-speech-to-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/06\/01\/mobile-education-speech-to-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Education: Speech to Text"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally posted by Jennifer L. on September 27, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something that has been really useful for me in the classroom is the speech to text capabilities of the iPad&nbsp;for my students who have difficulties with writing output. The iPad is a portable, easy to use tool that students can take to a private area to complete writing assignments away from prying eyes of classmates (though this doesn\u2019t always work out magically, as some struggling students are still resistant to using speech to text apps, convinced that it\u2019s a crutch since no one else needs this adaptation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, using speech to text has not always been smooth sailing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/ca\/app\/dragon-anywhere\/id1024652126\">Dragon Dictation<\/a> was the app that my school had installed onto all our iPads. True to the low rating on the app store, the app was difficult to use and did not always catch every word. Furthermore, trying to fix the mistakes often led to the application freezing, forcing the student to re-record everything. Saving texts was also a long process, and often I would have to help the student open up an email client, paste it into an email and send it to me. I stopped trying to use this app after a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"398\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/06\/2020-06-01_19-55-44.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/06\/2020-06-01_19-55-44.png 398w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/06\/2020-06-01_19-55-44-300x146.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple\u2019s Notes app that comes pre-installed is now my tool of choice. The speech to text function is easy to learn (straight out of the keyboard). It\u2019s easy to edit text and emailing the text is quite straightforward (using the share button). No more trying out free apps with limited functions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted by Jennifer L. on September 27, 2019. Something that has been really useful for me in the classroom is the speech to text&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/06\/01\/mobile-education-speech-to-text\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mobile Education: Speech to Text<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":65971,"featured_media":2098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobileeducation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}