Key's Quick Tips: Voice Typing (a.k.a. Speech Recognition)

Key's Quick Tips are provided by Kelly Key, Assistive Technology Coordinator for Barrington 220. Each month, I will feature a tool available on the iPad to support our students, including a short video demonstration. This month, the topic is Voice Typing, also known as Speech Recognition.

Using your voice to write sounds easy, right? You turn on the mic and speak! But there really is a lot more to using your voice for writing. Check out my tips below!

Click here for a video demo!

Speech Recognition Writing Process

• Think about your topic and what you want to write 
• Mentally compose your sentence 
• Hold the sentence in memory 
• Turn on the mic 
• Say your sentence with clear enunciation in a natural speaking manner 
• Turn off the microphone 
• Check the recognition accuracy
• Fix the recognition errors 

Tips to help with recognition



Lesson Plan
I co-authored a guide for using speech recognition that includes a lesson plan of 8 scaffolded steps to teaching students to use this tool effectively. Check out the lesson plan here: 8 steps to teaching speech recognition

For the complete guide, go to bit.ly/srguide

Would you like me to come to teach a group of students or full class how to use speech recognition for writing? If so, send me an email to schedule me to come in! kkey@barrington220.org