I chose Rania’s task 3 post as my first linking assignment. Rania and I seemed to have some similarities in our experience of voice to text, as well as some differences. Since we had both a similar and different experience when completing the same task, I thought it would be a good post to link to.
Rania and I had both never utilized the voice to text function before. We similarly noticed the spelling mistakes and lack of punctuation that came with voice to text. However, in the process of voice recording, Rania paid more attention to the time that the recording took, while I paid more attention to the lack of punctuation I saw being recorded. I feel like Rania likely did not see the words popping up as she spoke and this may have been because she used a different software than I did. The reason I noticed the lack of punctuation was that I saw the text popping up as I spoke. This meant that I immediately saw spelling mistakes as well.
Another similarity we share is thinking that scripting the story ahead of recording would have improved the story by reducing errors. Our reasoning for this is different though. Rania believes scripting would not have fixed all of the mistakes since she puts them down to a communication issue when speaking to the software. I felt that scripting would have reduced a lot of issues, besides punctuation, since it would remove the need to contemplate what exactly is being said.
One area where the course design effected both of our reflections was sticking to the questions that were asked. If Rania and I had expanded on our reflections beyond the base 5 questions, we may have made more meaningful insights. I can only speak for myself in regards to wanting to go into future implications of this type of software. Rania also being a teacher in the K-12 system would have likely commented on this as well if given the opportunity.