{"id":12036,"date":"2013-05-16T10:30:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T15:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=12036"},"modified":"2013-05-15T21:01:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T02:01:55","slug":"t3-basic-dictation-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/12036","title":{"rendered":"T<sup>3<\/sup>: Basic Dictation Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you find yourself wanting to say your comments on a student&#8217;s paper out loud instead of typing them up? \u00a0Have a desire to quickly dash off a chatty email to a friend or relative? Like talking to yourself and need a legitimate reason to give to concerned friends or office mates? \u00a0The built-in dictation features available in Windows 7 or Mac 10.8 (Mountain Lion) enable you to speak into your computer&#8217;s microphone and the speech recognition software will turn your words into text. \u00a0In both Windows and Mac the built-in software works in most applications wherever there is a place to enter text.<\/p>\n<p>A few ways to use dictation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comment on student or peer work by inserting text boxes using PDF annotation tools or word processor commenting tools.<\/li>\n<li>Compose emails.<\/li>\n<li>Create lists in reminder apps or word processors.<\/li>\n<li>Keep a research log or a personal journal.<\/li>\n<li>Draft a blog post.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tips for using dictation successfully:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speak at a slower rate than you normally do.<\/li>\n<li>Remember to\u00a0<em>say<\/em> the punctuation that you want to appear:<br \/>\n&#8220;Hi comma George exclamation point I enjoyed reading this paper period here are a few of my comments&#8221;\u00a0would translate to &#8220;Hi, George! I enjoyed reading this paper. Here are a few of my comments.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>If you briefly pause before and after punctuation or formatting commands, the software will be better able to distinguish the commands from speech you want translated to text.<\/li>\n<li>Use a headset or other dedicated microphone if you are doing marathon sessions of dictation.<\/li>\n<li>Practice makes perfect (or, at least, better) but you will still need to edit your finished text<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Setting up the dictation functions in Windows and Mac is easy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Windows 7<\/strong><br \/>\nClick the Start menu and then click on Help and Support. Type &#8220;speech recognition&#8221; into the search box. Click on Set up Speech Recognition and follow the directions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mac 10.8<\/strong> (Mountain Lion)<br \/>\nClick on the Apple Menu and then click on System Preferences. Click on Speech &amp; Dictation under the System category. Click on the Dictation tab and follow the directions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you find yourself wanting to say your comments on a student&#8217;s paper out loud instead of typing them up? \u00a0Have a desire to quickly dash off a chatty email to a friend or relative? Like talking to yourself and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/12036\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13959],"tags":[52158,380,52156,17816,280],"class_list":["post-12036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips","tag-dictation","tag-mac","tag-pc","tag-speech-recognition","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12036"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12050,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036\/revisions\/12050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}