Use different TTS voices and use Siri for sending text messages
“I use different voices for my text to speech and I use Siri to send notes to lecturers as an instant message (SMS). It is the flexibility of the iPhone that is so good – you can multitask using...
View ArticleSpeech to Text app on a mobile
“I like to generate a transcript of a lecture session and I use speech to text to dictate into my mobile or I record the session” D.T. There are several ways of dictating and producing text on the...
View ArticleNeed to spell check a word? Say it to your phone!
One of the easiest ways of checking for the spelling of a single word when on the move and not requiring a whole document to be spell checked is to say the word into a smart phone or tablet. As long as...
View ArticleSwype Keyboard and Dragon on mobile for messages and emails etc.
“I have been using the Swype Keyboard that comes with Dragon speech or voice recognition for long time on an HTC mobile running Android OS and despite the lack of a personalised voice profile, my...
View ArticleOtter Voice Notes and Transcription
Otter creates voice notes that combine audio, transcription and speaker identification for free on a desktop/laptop computer when online and with mobile and tablet apps. Otter is a real time speech...
View ArticleTranscripts from Captions?
The subject of automatic captioning continues to be debated but Gerald Ford Williams has produced a really helpful “guide to the visual language of closed captions and subtitles” on UX Collective as a...
View ArticlePersona – Faith keen to explore the use of virtual reality and accessibility
Faith Age: 53 years Course: Computer Science 3rd Year Hobbies: Garden design, family and video games Background: Faith recently had COVID-19 and this really affected her arthritis. She felt so tired...
View ArticleRe-visiting Captions and Automatic Speech Recognition results.
Around this time last year (November 2021) we discussed the challenges that are linked to the evaluation of captions generated by the use of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in two blogs...
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