Norah Smith – Voice to Text

Norah’s voice to text stood out to me, not because of the somewhat disturbing story about summer camp, but because of how nicely written it was.  It looked like it was typed and I would never have guessed that it had been done with voice to text technology.

Norah mentions that she has experience working with voice to text technology and that clearly has an impact on the quality of the outcome.  Any tool requires practice and this is no exception.  Voice to text technology does not yet appear to be ready to pick up on our natural speech patterns, we need to adjust to allow the machine to understand us.  Oral storytelling is an art, and it would seem that voice to text storytelling is also an art.