Susie went to the store and she bought ketchup mustard relish and also a bag of chips she went to the pharmacy afterwards and picked up her medication that she was prescribed for infection the pharmacist told her that her eye infection was contagious and that she should not be rubbing her eyes she was also told to not use any eye makeup or contact lenses until the infection is cleared after the grocery run she came back home and put her groceries away it was a Saturday morning and Susie had some time before she went to the barbeque so she decided to go swimming at the floating pool there were a lot of people Susie was a beginner swimmer so she went to the shallow end of the pool with a kickboard and started kicking around as she was swimming a group of teenagers jumped in their lane Susie was surprised but thankfully not injured the lifeguard came over and kicked the teenagers out of the lane Susie resumed swimming after swimming in the lane she also went to the diving board and jumped off the board into the deep end she was scared but she was able to get to the edge of the pool with the help of a life jacket After that she went to the hot tub before showering and heading home in the evening she went to the barbeque she packed the ketchup mustard and relish she bought this morning along with a variety of pop and beverages for the group tonight’s barbeque’s for her cousin Ralphs birthday her uncle set up a tarp and everybody gathered around to enjoy the barbecue and celebrate ralph’s birthday Susie AST Ralph what do you want for birthday this year Ralph answered I want a badminton rocket since he did not know that Ralph started playing badminton and wrote a note on her phone for next year birthday gift since she already got him a hat then afterwards everybody went home Susie stayed behind to help with the cleanup she packed her bags and headed home in her car on the way home there was no traffic an the moon was shining it was a beautiful view Susie went to bed

I used Microsoft Word’s dictate feature to convert voice to text for this assignment. It was my first time dictating and I was surprised by the accuracy of words it picked up and how fast it turned into text. Compared to conventions of written English, there is no punctuation. The entire story is a long run-on sentence that just keeps going. Without punctuation, it is hard to separate events and ideas. For example, “she was also told to not use any eye makeup or contact lenses until the infection is cleared after the grocery run” – missing a period between the words “cleared” and “after”, misinforms the reader that infection is to be cleared after the grocery run rather than what Susie did after the grocery run. The dictation capitalized Susie’s name but not Ralph’s name. There are a few words that were turned into a different word than what was spoken. For example, “an” instead of “and”, and “AST” instead of “asked”. I consider these mistakes because they alter the storyline and differ in what was spoken to what was transcribed. If I had scripted the story, then the story would’ve had more carefully chosen words and sentence structure. It would’ve also been more logically laid out so that in case of mistakes in voice-to-text, the reader (hopefully) would still be able to follow along. In written storytelling, the use of punctuation, sentence structure and layout support in communicating the story to readers. I can also use brackets to insert an idea (just like this) or create a blank space between two paragraphs to signal the start of a new idea. Similarly, in oral storytelling, the emphasis through the use of tone, voice and pace would be used to support communication. However, when voice is turned into text via speech-to-text technology, such nuances and features are lost into a big blob of run-on sentences. Moreover, if the storyteller had a heavy accent or mumbles that was not recognizable by the technology, that would also impact communication.