I find working with audio to be so helpful – although as Natasha talked about in the case study – it is not always practical if you are working in an open-air office or there is a lot of background noise.
I am a fast typist (100 words a minute) so audio for me is slower than typing – but I still find it helpful in improving time efficiency by allowing me to do another task at the same time because my hands are free. The guidance for speech recognition and similar products advise on whether the product will be of benefit, associated with how many words you can type a minute. Speech recognition takes time to practice and getting to grips with voice commands and training the system to learn your voice – it can appear tedious and I do find that it often hasn’t picked up what I have said correctly. You do have to speak clearly. The application was much quicker for me, once I had learned the voice prompts and did not have to refer to the key.
As the course material states, I think attitude has a lot to do with whether people are successful and how much benefit the technology will provide you and how much experience you have had previously. Technique can be perfected with time, depending on whether people can learn commands. Voice recognition can not be mastered immediately and time and patience is required.
Filed under: H810 Week 7 | Tagged: audio, training, voice recognition
