This is crazy good information and direction and questions by Dr. Martin Bloomfield. Use the 1.5, 1.75 or 2x's speed and enjoy Dr. Bloomfeild's upbeat conversation.
Companies that specialse in communication devices such as Samsung and Apple have better voice analysis and dictation accuracy because they have had access to more actual voice data than Google or Microsoft. I use my Samsung to dictate into MS Word because the device understands intonation / pronunciation / orthography to a much higher degree of accuracy. Thanks for following up on the previous video.
My pleasure - and there'll be more to come down the line. I really hope it speaks to you. ps - the fact that Samsung and Apple seem to have more access to actual voice data than their competitors is interesting. It's also slightly worrisome. This "data scraping" and use of our data has some very complex ethical issues that need to be addressed...
As a conclusion : it is the pioneers like Graham, Martin, me and a few oothers that will make the educational systems evolve. It’s quite fast in Luxembourg, because the country is small, but it will take a hell of a time in France for example, if only because of the size and the complexity of the National Education Ministry and all the advising groups and counsels evolving around it. Also, there is a resistance from the parents and potential users themselves. I face it every day. Sadly, not all parents and potential users are so excited as we are about using technology to our advantage. Not everybody is a pioneer. In fact, very few of us, as you know (Roger’s innovation curve). I was at a conference about Inclusion in France a few back (INSHEA) and a sociologist guest speaker explained how change was brought about by these pioneers who were more often than not people directly impacted by the technology or the new innovative stuff they were preaching about. Quite true. Over and out for now. Until your next video. Great work Martin.
Coming back to the Speech to Text : it is saving kids at school now, very few, but they do exist in Luxembourg, France and Belgium. It’s happening in some countries, in little pockets, often because the parents have fought long and hard to obtain it as a provision (or reasonable accomodations) for their children at school and at exams. It is just amazing how many dyslexic people in adulthood have no idea what technology has to offer to them. And yes, as an adult, it can be life changing in order to access further professional training and education. As Graham said in the video, so often dyslexic adults do not dare getting further education ror training because they know how they’ll struggle (maybe fail) due to their dyslexia. It really limits their professional evolution.
Yeah but, no but, what about enabling the functionally and digitally illiterate to Access-Text and read more fluently in the first place !? With 30% still effectively excluded from participating in learning and leaving secondary education as functionally and digitally illiterate as they arrived just when are schools going to have effective Accessibility Statements !? Maybe it will require a sufficient number of them to make Accessibility Claims under the Equality Act (Section '20' Accommodations) before the secondary education actually introduces some effective Accessibility Statements rather than just arguing over which reading tools are preferred!? th-cam.com/video/XuzZJyCc_Zs/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/Ti29cPuGg6o/w-d-xo.html
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This is crazy good information and direction and questions by Dr. Martin Bloomfield. Use the 1.5, 1.75 or 2x's speed and enjoy Dr. Bloomfeild's upbeat conversation.
Great idea! I've just set this to 1.75 and it's great! 👏
Companies that specialse in communication devices such as Samsung and Apple have better voice analysis and dictation accuracy because they have had access to more actual voice data than Google or Microsoft. I use my Samsung to dictate into MS Word because the device understands intonation / pronunciation / orthography to a much higher degree of accuracy.
Thanks for following up on the previous video.
My pleasure - and there'll be more to come down the line. I really hope it speaks to you.
ps - the fact that Samsung and Apple seem to have more access to actual voice data than their competitors is interesting. It's also slightly worrisome. This "data scraping" and use of our data has some very complex ethical issues that need to be addressed...
As a conclusion : it is the pioneers like Graham, Martin, me and a few oothers that will make the educational systems evolve. It’s quite fast in Luxembourg, because the country is small, but it will take a hell of a time in France for example, if only because of the size and the complexity of the National Education Ministry and all the advising groups and counsels evolving around it. Also, there is a resistance from the parents and potential users themselves. I face it every day. Sadly, not all parents and potential users are so excited as we are about using technology to our advantage. Not everybody is a pioneer. In fact, very few of us, as you know (Roger’s innovation curve). I was at a conference about Inclusion in France a few back (INSHEA) and a sociologist guest speaker explained how change was brought about by these pioneers who were more often than not people directly impacted by the technology or the new innovative stuff they were preaching about. Quite true. Over and out for now. Until your next video. Great work Martin.
Coming back to the Speech to Text : it is saving kids at school now, very few, but they do exist in Luxembourg, France and Belgium. It’s happening in some countries, in little pockets, often because the parents have fought long and hard to obtain it as a provision (or reasonable accomodations) for their children at school and at exams. It is just amazing how many dyslexic people in adulthood have no idea what technology has to offer to them. And yes, as an adult, it can be life changing in order to access further professional training and education. As Graham said in the video, so often dyslexic adults do not dare getting further education ror training because they know how they’ll struggle (maybe fail) due to their dyslexia. It really limits their professional evolution.
You've hit it bang on the nose, thank you! Davis Graham is a genuine font of knowledge about this, I definitely urge you to connect with him.
Yeah but, no but, what about enabling the functionally and digitally illiterate to Access-Text and read more fluently in the first place !? With 30% still effectively excluded from participating in learning and leaving secondary education as functionally and digitally illiterate as they arrived just when are schools going to have effective Accessibility Statements !?
Maybe it will require a sufficient number of them to make Accessibility Claims under the Equality Act (Section '20' Accommodations) before the secondary education actually introduces some effective Accessibility Statements rather than just arguing over which reading tools are preferred!?
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