Check out Elaine’s Task 3 here.

Elaine also completed the Voice-to-Text Task, and used Google’s Voice-to-Text technology. For her 5 minute speech, she described a situation in her elementary teaching job where one of her teaching partners accidentally dismissed a student with what seemed to be the wrong adult, but thankfully it was resolved in the end.

Afterwards, she analyzes her speech according to the guiding questions from the task, and adds a great example that contrasts reading text language from a screen and reading text out loud.

I chose to link Elaine’s task 3 because of how similar her experience was with mine. We both spoke naturally (though rushed due to the nagging features of our respective Voice-to-Text functions) and did not say punctuation words to format our speech, so our scripts ended up being one big run-on sentence. Both of our scripts also had some misinterpreted words, but properly capitalized proper nouns. 

I linked her assignment to show that we experienced problems that the majority of English speaking people would probably experience if they were to do the same task. The Voice-to-Text function is imperfect, no matter which device or company, and one must be aware and actually speak punctuation words to format their text if they do not want it to be one big run-on sentence.