Writing/Editing in Google Docs & Word

When I went to college I remember I was so proud to get my new typewriter. A Smith & Corona Selectric.

Well it was quite a bit more modern than this one, in fact my machine was state of the art for its time. Then technology progressed and I got an IBM PC Jr. that had a word processor and a dot matrix printer. It even had a “mouse”, sorry all you elephants in the room.

My point is, I predict that voice recognition is improving so rapidly that my students will use voice typing as their primary input to their devices before high school. Already we use it�in our daily lives-think Alexa or Siri!

So here is a short video showing how I enable my students to use voice typing or STT (speech-to-text).

My apologies for the voice quality, looks like I need to adjust my settings.

Now, I can’t have the whole class using it at once given the quality of my headsets but the day will soon come. I think it is vitally important that they use a TTS (text-to-speech) app in order to listen to what they have voice typed. This kind of feedback loop will increase their independent editing skills. Much like we sometimes use these.