I chose to link to Amanda Botelho’s Task 3 – Voice to Text post.
https://blogs.ubc.ca/webspace/2022/06/05/task-3-voice-to-text/
- How has your colleague’s experience differed from yours? And how do you know?
- I actually choose Amanda’s post as it was so similar to mine. We had little to no experience with using voice to text and we had similar reservations about talking unscripted about a story as I too am an over thinker. Her webspace had an organized layout and her tasks were clearly designated, which is similar to my layout.
- This is my overall impression and comment to Amanda
- Hi Amanda, I experienced the same thing when it comes to the confusion felt at not having punctuation in our stories. Perhaps had I been more familiar with voice to text I would have known to state the words to punctuate, but I have never used it, and when I have a student use the adaptation, I have them look it over for punctuation corrections.One of the things that comes to mind is the lack of punctuation in phone text messages. Most people feel them to be unnecessary. For me it depends on the recipient. I am more likely to formulate sentences with punctuation if my messages are to a new acquaintance or someone unfamiliar, but close friends or family often get chopped up phrases. Perhaps the familiarity of friend and family don’t need a formality that I reserve for people unknown. Gretchen Mculloch (2019, New Rules) states in the podcast that this new timed down version of speaking is not less than the traditional form where we use using proper terms, punctuation and grammar. Language has always evolved and so it is just becoming a different version of it self.
One additional note I connected with is the missing words to fill spaces. My program picked up the umms. I am not sure that I use them in everyday speech, but I think that with the pressure of recording and filling the 5 minute time it made me nervous to tell the story.
Reference
- Zaltzman, Helen and McCulloch, Gretchen. (Host & Guest). (2015–present). New Rules [Audio podcast]. The Allusionist. https://www.theallusionist.org/new-rules
- Hi Amanda, I experienced the same thing when it comes to the confusion felt at not having punctuation in our stories. Perhaps had I been more familiar with voice to text I would have known to state the words to punctuate, but I have never used it, and when I have a student use the adaptation, I have them look it over for punctuation corrections.One of the things that comes to mind is the lack of punctuation in phone text messages. Most people feel them to be unnecessary. For me it depends on the recipient. I am more likely to formulate sentences with punctuation if my messages are to a new acquaintance or someone unfamiliar, but close friends or family often get chopped up phrases. Perhaps the familiarity of friend and family don’t need a formality that I reserve for people unknown. Gretchen Mculloch (2019, New Rules) states in the podcast that this new timed down version of speaking is not less than the traditional form where we use using proper terms, punctuation and grammar. Language has always evolved and so it is just becoming a different version of it self.
