Topic summary
Speech-to-text
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Speech recognition.
People with disabilities
This type of technology can help those with dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Speech-to-text has been found to improve the writing quality of students with learning disabilities. When compared to handwriting samples, students with learning disabilities who used speech-to-text were found to write faster and to have longer, more complex sentences with less errors. Self esteem of young students with learning disabilities was found to rise when using speech to text due to decreased levels of anxiety associated with writing. Students make less mistakes when using the software compared to handwriting which makes them more confident in their writing. Mistakes made by the software hinder its effectiveness, since misheard words take more time to fix. The act of having to go back and revise misheard words helps students to see and fix their mistakes. This has been shown to increase error recognition skills for users.