As a district we have moved to 1:1 enviornment. Every YCS student has access (or can have access) to a district issued device. Take a moment to consider your students. Think about the ones who struggle to get their ideas onto paper. How about the students who struggle with spelling or have fine motor control issues.
Speech to Text is a tool that can help these students and many others. Speech to Text is an Accessibility feature built into most computers today. It is a tool that allows a writer to dictate their thoughts and ideas into a document. Many Speech to Text options also allow you to speak the punctuation and a multitude of other voice commands for editing purposes.Google Docs has a built in Speech to Text option called Voice Typing.
Google offers a fairly comprehensive instructional guide for Voice Typing. The guide includes a list of languages supported by Voice Typing as well as a list of punctuation that can be voice enabled. The guide also includes a list of voice commands for formatting or editing your document in the sections under “Voice commands”. There are also some troubleshooting tips located near the end of the guide.
Voice Typing is also available on iPads via the microphone icon that appears next to the keyboard when typing.
Give it a try! Your students will love it (and so will you)!
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Voice Typing is also available as a built-in features on the staff MacBooks. Please reach out to me if you would like a tutorial on how to set it up for your use.
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