OK so I feel like the first thing that I have to say is that this is really uncomfortable for me that was something I really had to get over at the beginning of the pandemic was how uncomfortable and awkward and embarrassed I feel when I talk to a computer so that was like something that I I had to deal with I especially with zoom and when there\u2019s technical issues still it it just like I don\u2019t know I I feel terrible about it so I I feel embarrassed during this that\u2019s my first thing the second thing I guess that I\u2019m going to talk about is movie that I just watched so I finally watched dream scenario I am a pretty big Nicolas Cage fan so so I\u2019m you know try to watch everything that he puts out and I think lately there\u2019s been a cage renaissance of sorts but dream scenario was amiss for me which is interesting I think because on paper there\u2019s a lot there that I should like I I would argue it was miscategorized by almost everything like the YouTube algorithm says that it\u2019s a comedy we rented it off of YouTube I find that very interesting because it\u2019s certainly not funny but at the same time I think it\u2019s funny and maybe the same way that the office is funny which I can\u2019t watch also because I find it so uncomfortable so maybe what I\u2019m arguing is that the office is not a comedy either and so maybe I think it\u2019s not a horror movie either although it seems like the marketing kind of leaned into the horror aspect and there is like a nod to that idea that it\u2019s a horror movie but it but it doesn\u2019t it does remain in that space enough I think to be fully called over film I I think I have to argue that it it\u2019s creating a new genre of of of a new sub genre of horror maybe instead of something like body horror you know a horror that really focuses on embodiment of of like fear and and modifications and changes to your physical body I argue that dream scenario is maybe the first entry social horror genre and not one where you are looking at society as a horrifying thing but the social death of a of a person I guess is maybe what we\u2019re talking about like watching someone who\u2019s totally graceless just fail over and over and over again is social horror I think that\u2019s I think that\u2019s horrifying I would hate to for that to happen to me add but why I thought it was a miss I mean I think that it didn\u2019t go very far in any direction and I think that is a complaint that I wind up happening with a lot of Nicolas Cage movies I wonder if it\u2019s because I think that everything that he\u2019s in should be so bombastic that when something is simply just I don\u2019t know typical maybe I think that\u2019s disappointing when it could be going to absolute extremes like to contrast this let\u2019s look at at another couple of semi recent I say semi recent because time lately has been really compressed but semi recent cage films like you did the color out of space and that was I thought amazing I mean that was it really went in every direction that it needed to go I thought he did Mandy which has become one of my favorite films I think Mandy also goes it pursues the direction that it that it sets out in and and it perceives it to an extreme which I find to be much more interesting than something like dream scenario which I think has some interesting ideas the social death and explored in a supernatural way which as opposed to like a more typical drama exploring social death is interesting to me but I I didn\u2019t think that it went far enough I think what could have been really interesting is if the film had played more with the dream aspect and moved directly into is it real or is it dream more and more of the film taking place within dream I think that could have been an interesting place to just explore but you know what it\u2019s been 3 days and I\u2019m still thinking about it so maybe I\u2019m not giving it enough credit for what it accomplished anyway these are my 5 minutes of talking about Nicolas Cage films and talking to my computer and feeling very embarrassed about it the whole time thank you for reading or listening thank you computer for listening thank you reader for reading<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It appears that Windows voice to text when used out of the box with no settings tweaks eschews punctuation entirely, so that\u2019s an impactful difference. This lack of punctuation really emphasizes my rambling. I do a lot of asides when speaking, more than I do when I\u2019m writing, and especially <\/strong>more than I do when I\u2019m doing more typical academic writing. Even in the process of writing this reflection I\u2019m a very iterative writer, I re-read a lot, make tweaks, swap words. In oral communication that\u2019s not an option. I\u2019m itching to edit that text but am going to resist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By and large the voice to text functionality captured the words I was saying. Without any punctuation it becomes difficult to parse, especially since speaking flows organically. It also doesn\u2019t capture proper nouns to capitalize, which makes sense as a limitation of speech to text. I tested this in ChatGPT\u2019s speech-to-text feature on their iOS app and it captured proper nouns to capitalize them. I think that is neat to reflect on even if it just the technology limitations of the default Windows speech-to-text versus a flagship consumer AI product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I consider the lack of proper nouns a mistake as it makes reading the text more difficult. I\u2019ve been writing a lot of alt text and image descriptions and using NVDA to navigate courses lately at work, and this has been something I\u2019ve mulled over \u2013 proper nouns are contextually only important in written communication, but when they are missing I do find it disruptive. But I am able to follow when people tell me stories verbally without capitalization\u2026 interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My vocal ticks like ums and hmms all seem to have been captured in different ways \u2013 as letters or other words but not typically captured as ums or ahs. I consider that a mistake as it\u2019s changing the contents of the text. I wonder if it\u2019s doing that not because it’s difficult to identify an um as an um, but trying to distance from the idea that the content is voice to text, as written text wouldn\u2019t include ums and ahs. Trying to obfuscate that it\u2019s a transcript of spoken word perhaps?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Had I scripted and rehearsed this I think there would be less asides, less wandering, and a much more concrete structure. Less errors from the vocal tisks being transcribed. Overall a much easier reading experience \u2013 but I would imagine less interesting to listen to! A space that would be interesting to explore is the contextual importance of some grammar rules like proper noun capitalization. It bothers me when reading a text that doesn’t have it, but it simply doesn’t exist for oral storytelling. On the flip side – what exists in oral story telling that doesn’t in written? I keep setting up and knocking down examples for myself – emphasis can be communicated through bold, <\/strong>italicizing<\/em>, or size<\/span>. Pacing: through…. punctuation. Characterization or accent can be dissected and written but I’ll admit I often have to read out loud to understand what is being said when accents are written in books (the Nac Mac Feegle spring to mind, to bring another mention of Sir Terry Pratchett to my writing in this course). I think that oral storytelling’s slippery, ephemeral nature is the starkest contrast to written storytelling. 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