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Originally Posted by dewilson58
Not an I-Phone guy, but my phone does a great job speech-to-text. I think it likes my bride's voice better than mine and it even picks up the radio/tv if I have it going in the background. The technology is available.
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But that is part of the problem--it picks up background sounds. This would work very poorly in a classroom situation. Plus you would have more than one person's voice in a classroom, whereas some of the speech to text technology has to "get used" to a speaker's particular voice.
If this worked well for closed captioning (I worked in the editing end of that field), it would have taken over a long time ago, as offline closed captioning (where the show is captioned in advance and sent back to the network--called pop-up as opposed to real time captioning that you see on news broadcasts) is very expensive. It took a ton of lobbying to get captioning to be required by law. If it weren't, none of the networks would have ever started doing it.