6th year pupil, Fiona Scott will be demonstrating her excellent use of speech recognition software at and ICT workshop tomorrow in Edinburgh. Originally Shirley Lawson was going to present the case study but Fiona has agreed to come and do a live demo – no mean feat!
Is Speech Recognition software finally beginning to realise it’s potential for learners with additional support needs?
This free workshop run by CALL Scotland and SQA will consider this question. Speech recognition systems are now freely available on Windows and MacOS computers and in mobile devices such as the iPad. At the same time, speech recognition is becoming of greater interest to schools as an alternative to scribes, given that scribes cannot be used for assessing writing in National Literacy assessments.
In this workshop we will review the tools available, including Windows 7 Speech Recognition; Dragon Naturally Speaking; iPad Siri; Google Voice Typing, and share experiences (both positive and negative) and, we hope, good practice.
The timetable is as follows:
- 9.00: Coffee and registration
- 9.30: Windows 7 Speech Recognition
- Liz Fraser, Selkirk High School, will talk about a trial of the free built in Windows Speech Recognition that is currently running in Selkirk High School.
- 10.00: Dragon Naturally Speaking
- Shirley Lawson, East Lothian, will present a case study about a pupil in S6 using Dragon Naturally Speaking.
- Dianne Youngson, Dunblane High School will present a case study about a learner using Dragon in Higher assessments and exams.
- 10.50: Comfort Break
- 11.10: iOS Siri
- CALL staff will introduce this session and demonstrate Siri. There will be input from Emma Slavin from Balfron High School about using Siri with iReadWrite, and from other colleagues.
- 11.40: Google Android
- Craig Mill from CALL will give an overview of Google Now and Google Voice Typing.
- 12:10 Plenary Discussion
Information from this workshop will be reported back on this blog.