Voice to Text

Here is my unscripted, 5 minute long story. I used the dictation tool in Word. I had a difficult time thinking of a story and didn’t know what kind of story to share.

Here is my ‘Gold Ring’ story:

” There was a time when I on my ring Felt
I had thought a reading on My jewelry store
And I wanted work and eight on my flight index finger it had a very it was a gold and had a very unique design This was during the beginning of the school year I was a really worried  about sick so I was constantly washing my hands so I took off my ring and placed it on my test hand cream and put it back on I had to realize that I didn’t put back on until I got home that’s when he phone and lost it about four days passed and I Realized Great I’ve lost one day while I was hanging up my jacket something fell out of the pocket it was the ring  Felt very relieved that I found my ring.”

 

What would you have done differently if you have had the chance to script the story?
I would have liked to brainstorm on paper and think about beginning, middle, and an end. It would have been easier to organize my thoughts on paper and give more thought about my story. As I was talking, I caught myself thinking what I was going to say in my head. I was speaking slower than usual.

What are the most common “mistakes” in the text?
The common mistake I can point out is punctuation. I could not find a way finish my sentences with a period. There are some minor spelling mistakes that dictation did not pick up. Sometimes dictation picked up my ‘d’ as ‘t’s, (i.e. I said ‘desk’, but it picked it up as ‘test’.)

Why do you consider these “mistakes”?
I considered them mistakes because without a period, readers do not know if the sentence ends or not. When there are spelling errors, the wrong message is delivered and the message is unclear.

In what ways does oral storytelling differ from written storytelling?
Written stories may have had more time to be edited and more time is invested to complete the story. They Oral storytelling requires practice, to ensure that the story is told in the same way. I think if I were to share my gold ring again, I might end up using different words and have a different to share the story. Gnanadesikan, gave a great example, “I could tell someone else, who would tell someone else, who would tell someone else . . . and, as in the party game “telephone,” where each person whispers a message to the next person in a circle, the message would be very different by the end. But let’s say I write down the words on a piece of paper and pass the paper around the circle. The words are just the same at the end as at the beginning.”

 

References:

Gnanadesikan, A. E. (2011).“The First IT Revolution.” In The writing revolution: Cuneiform to the internet (Vol. 25). John Wiley & Sons (pp. 1-10)