Lexie’s Task 3 – Voice-to-Text
https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540withmstucker/2021/09/26/task-3-voice-to-text/
Lexie’s experience was similar to mine in that she also struggled with speaking ‘period’ in order to stop a sentence and start a new one. In this task, she chose to use the website https://dictation.io/speech to transcribe her voice into text. It is very similar to the ‘notes’ function I used on my iPhone for two main reasons. First, the text appears as you speak so you can be more aware of your own speech. Second, you can say the names of the punctuations to make them appear. Lexie’s experience is different from mine in that I started to change the way I speak as I saw the texts were appearing in a hard-to-understand way. I was catching my ‘um’ and started to speak slower and enunciate more, and I also tried to say the names of punctuations.
Lexie mentioned that “adverbs such as quietly and excitedly or verbs such as whisper and scream, provide readers with important insight that is lost when verbal speech is recorded by writing.” I can relate to her feeling that her speech-to-text creation lacks emotion. I felt the same way with mine because I could not give it more thought to include more descriptive words to give the reader more information.
In the reflection, Lexi mentioned that she cringed at the notion that there is a piece of writing that is full of mistakes that is related to her name. She related to what Haas (2013) and Gnanadesikan (2011) both wrote about writing has the ability to endure through time and space. I think that is why people tend to be more careful and edit through their writing before publishing, whereas speech usually is more informal. Videos are now changing the way people view informal speech because any speech that is recorded on video can also now endure through time.
