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[Technology 1394] Re: Technology Digest, Vol 26, Issue 10

David J. Rosen djrosen at comcast.net
Fri Nov 23 14:01:24 EST 2007


Hello Yan Luo,

I doubt that jott.com translates voice to text better than Dragon
Naturally Speaking. All of these voice-to-text products, from my
experience, have their limitations, especially for those who do not
speak U.S. standard English, but also for many native speakers. Let
us know how it works for you, your friends and if you are teaching,
for your students.

David

David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net

On Nov 22, 2007, at 1:15 AM, luoyan wrote:


> Hi, David:

> This is Yan Luo from Georgia State University. I am so interested

> in the service you introduced to us. Three months ago, my friends

> and I tryed to figure out how to tranlate voice into text messages

> which exactly like what you introduced to us.After a careful search

> for most compatable software, we selected Dragon Naturally Speaking

> which is produced by Nuance Communications,Inc.It turned out very

> disappoiting since the product did not work as well as we saw in

> their commercials. The product needs a long-time traning in order

> to recognize certain person's voice, which means it is impossible

> to be used for public purpose.The voice recognition service

> introduced in your last posing sounds awesome according to your

> introduction. I really hope I could have a chance to try it. Must

> be very exciting :) I will email you personally about my idea on

> using this service for learning later.Hope we can communicate a

> little bit more on this topic.

>

> Yan Luo

> Georgia State University

>

> > From: technology-request at nifl.gov

> > Subject: Technology Digest, Vol 26, Issue 10

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> > Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:00:03 -0500

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> > 1. [Technology 1385] Re: Send your students a phone message,

> > yourself a reminder, or.... (Frederick W. Gibson)

> > 2. [Technology 1385] Re: Send your students a phone message,

> > yo urself a reminder, or.... (Mariann Fedele)

> > 3. [Technology 1386] Re: Send your students a phone message,

> > yourself a reminder, or.... (Frederick W. Gibson)

> >

> >

> >

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

> >

> > Message: 1

> > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:52:18 +0000

> > From: "Frederick W. Gibson" <fgibson4 at student.gsu.edu>

> > Subject: [Technology 1385] Re: Send your students a phone message,

> > yourself a reminder, or....

> > To: technology at nifl.gov

> > Message-ID: <1195577538.b9db104fgibson4 at student.gsu.edu>

> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

> >

> > Hello everyone:

> >

> > Please checkout this website on integrating technology in adult

> literacy education.

> >

> > http://alri.org/harness.html

> >

> > Imagine all of the money that our government spends on war and

> housing young men in jail, if that money along could b e spent on

> adult literacy how better off our country would be. Why is this

> difficult for our government to see.

> >

> > Thanks,

> > Fred Gibson

> > GSU

> >

> >

> >

> > Harnessing Technology to Serve Adult Literacy

> >

> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: Lalitha Garapaty <lgarapaty at yahoo.com>

> > To: technology at nifl.gov

> > Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:53:02 -0800 (PST)

> > Subject: [Technology 1383] Send your students a phone message,

> yourself a reminder, or....

> >

> >

> > Some thoughts with reference to adult literacy -

> >

> > For busy adults working sometimes more than one job

> > and have little time/energy to work on self-literacy -

> >

> > Use as a medium of instruction - post, post-classroom

> > content as a thirty second podcast via phone, for

> > re-emphasis, recall and to share tips. For ex.

> > "whenever you see this word, it should remind you of< BR>> pronoun."

> >

> > Among adult literacy instructors -

> > Sharing instructional tips, a change in instructional

> > strategy, change of content if it makes better sense

> > during teaching. This exchange as voice mail or text

> > message would enable other instructors to test these

> > immediately in their classes and communicate the same

> > with others.

> >

> > Lalitha

> >

> > --- technology-request at nifl.gov wrote:

> >

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> > > 1. [Technology 1379] Re: Send your students a

> > > phone message,

> > > yourself a reminder, or.... (Kuulei Reeser)

> > >

> > >

> > >

> >

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

> > >

> > > Message: 1

> > > Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:22:21 -1000

> > > From: "Kuulei Reeser" <kuulei.reeser at mauihui.org>

> > > Subject: [Technology 1379] Re: Send your students a

> > > phone message,

> > > yourself a reminder, or....

> > > To: "'The Technology and Literacy Discussion List'"

> > > <technology at nifl.gov>

> > > Message-ID: <000001c8289f$288ab830$0600a8c0 at Kuulei1>

> > > Content-Type: tex t/plain; charset="us-ascii"

> > >

> > > Hi David,

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > I hope this email is not arriving too late to

> > > participate in your offer to

> > > provide the URL for this phone message service.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > With this service, I can envision our teachers using

> > > this service to remind

> > > students of homework assignments, tests, fieldtrips,

> > > etc. I can also

> > > envision it being used by the students on class

> > > projects in order to

> > > collaborate with each other. For example, our high

> > > school foundations kids

> > > (pre-GED) recently went on a field trip to our ocean

> > > center and each was

> > > assigned a fish species to study. If we had this

> > > service, each student

> > > could send a phone message to the other students

> > > highlighting 5 features of

> > > their species, then the other students could save

> > > each message and record

> > > them in their notes when they got back to class.

> > > This could all be done at

> > > the ocean center when the students are scattered

> > > across the site studying

> > > their fish.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Just an idea. I am interested in hearing more about

> > > this service.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Thanks,

> > >

> > > Ku'ulei Reeser

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Hui Malama Learning Center

> > >

> > > Technology Coordinator

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > _____

> > >

> > > From: David J. Rosen [mailto:djrosen at comcast.net]

> > > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 6:24 AM

> > > To: The Technology and Literacy Discussion List

> > > Subject: [Technology 1353] Send your students a

> > > phone message,yourself a

> > > reminder, or....

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Technology colleagues,

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Suppose there were a free service that enabled you

> > > -- from a cell phone or a

> > > land line -- to send up to a 30-second voice message

> > > to yourself, or to

> > > anyone you had listed in an address book that you

> > > had created for this

> > > purpose. Suppose your students could send messages

> > > this way, too, from their

> > > phones. Suppose when you called the toll-free number

> > > (U.S. and Canada only)

> > > it said "Hi (your name), who do you want to send a

> > > message to? " Suppose you

> > > then said the person's name (or "me" for sending

> > > yourself reminders). Then,

> > > suppose you sp oke your brief message. Then, in a few

> > > minutes, suppose the

> > > message were sent to an e-mail address (as a

> > > translated text message, with a

> > > "real voice" audio option) or as an SMS text

> > > message. Suppose, also, that

> > > you could set up a group of people, and whenever you

> > > wanted to, you could

> > > send them all one voice/text/email message. (Suppose

> > > this group were all the

> > > students in your class, or all the instructors at

> > > your program, who have

> > > either a land line or cell phone.)

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Such a free service exists. (There may be more than

> > > one, but I only know of

> > > one.) If you would like to know what it is, here's

> > > the catch: you have to

> > > email me (djrosen at comcast.net) at least one idea of

> > > how you would use this

> > > with students. Then I will email you the URL for the

> > > free service. I am not

> > > promoting this service particularly (although I do

> > > think it could be

> > > useful.) What I am trying to do is to use the

> > > collective intelligence,

> > > imagination and experience of subscribers on this

> > > list to collect ideas

> > > about how to use such a technology. I will compile

> > > whatever I get and send a

> > > summary back to this list.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > If you want to know the Web address, send me -- not

> > > the Technology list --

> > > your idea(s) about how to use this service with your

> > > basic literacy, ESOL,

> > > ABE, ASE, or college transition students, students

> > > -- in a face-to-face or

> > > on-line setting.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > David J. Rosen

> > >

> > > djrosen at comcast.net

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

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> > Message: 2

> > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:17:57 -0500

> > From: "Mariann Fedele" <MariannF at lacnyc.org>

> > Subject: [Technology 1385] Re: Send your students a phone message,

> > yourself a reminder, or....

> > To: "The Technology and Literacy Discussion List"

> > <technology @nifl.gov>

> > Message-ID:

> > <6E8BC13A30982C44BCD32B38FB8F5AB85E6F1C at lac-exch.lacnyc.local>

> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

> >

> > Hello All,

> >

> > Thank you, Fred for sending the link to one of regular contributor,

> > David Rosen's resource pages.

> > I'm thinking about the rest of your post, and I of course agree

> with the

> > sentiment. The question I have for you and for the list is; If

> resources

> > for technology resources in adult literacy were made available what

> > should they be? What would we advocate for?

> >

> > Regards,

> > Mariann

> >

> >

> > Mariann Fedele

> > Director,

> > NYC Regional Adult Education Network

> > Literacy Assistance Center

> > Moderator,

> > NIFL Technology and Literacy Discussion List

> > 32 Broadway 10th Floor

> > New York, New York 10004

> > 212-803-3325

> > mariannf at lacnyc.org

> > www.lacnyc .org

> >

> >

> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: technology-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:technology-

> bounces at nifl.gov]

> > On Behalf Of Frederick W. Gibson

> > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:52 AM

> > To: technology at nifl.gov

> > Subject: [Technology 1385] Re: Send your students a phone

> > message,yourself a reminder, or....

> >

> > Hello everyone:

> >

> > Please checkout this website on integrating technology in adult

> literacy

> > education.

> >

> > http://alri.org/harness.html

> >

> > Imagine all of the money that our government spends on war and

> housing

> > young men in jail, if that money along could be spent on adult

> literacy

> > how better off our country would be. Why is this difficult for our

> > government to see.

> >

> > Thanks,

> > Fred Gibson

> > GSU

> >

> >

> >

> > Harnessing Technology to Serve Adult Literacy

> >

> > ---- -Original Message-----

> > From: Lalitha Garapaty <lgarapaty at yahoo.com>

> > To: technology at nifl.gov

> > Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:53:02 -0800 (PST)

> > Subject: [Technology 1383] Send your students a phone message,

> yourself

> > a reminder, or....

> >

> >

> > Some thoughts with reference to adult literacy -

> >

> > For busy adults working sometimes more than one job

> > and have little time/energy to work on self-literacy -

> >

> > Use as a medium of instruction - post, post-classroom

> > content as a thirty second podcast via phone, for

> > re-emphasis, recall and to share tips. For ex.

> > "whenever you see this word, it should remind you of

> > pronoun."

> >

> > Among adult literacy instructors -

> > Sharing instructional tips, a change in instructional

> > strategy, change of content if it makes better sense

> > during teaching. This exchange as voice mail or text

> > m essage would enable other instructors to test these

> > immediately in their classes and communicate the same

> > with others.

> >

> > Lalitha

> >

> > --- technology-request at nifl.gov wrote:

> >

> > > Send Technology mailing list submissions to

> > > technology at nifl.gov

> > >

> > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web,

> > > visit

> > > http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/technology

> > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body

> > > 'help' to

> > > technology-request at nifl.gov

> > >

> > > You can reach the person managing the list at

> > > technology-owner at nifl.gov

> > >

> > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it

> > > is more specific

> > > than "Re: Contents of Technology digest..."

> > >

> > >

> > > Today's Topics:

> > >

> > > 1. [Technology 1379] Re: S end your students a

> > > phone message,

> > > yourself a reminder, or.... (Kuulei Reeser)

> > >

> > >

> > >

> >

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

> > >

> > > Message: 1

> > > Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:22:21 -1000

> > > From: "Kuulei Reeser" <kuulei.reeser at mauihui.org>

> > > Subject: [Technology 1379] Re: Send your students a

> > > phone message,

> > > yourself a reminder, or....

> > > To: "'The Technology and Literacy Discussion List'"

> > > <technology at nifl.gov>

> > > Message-ID: <000001c8289f$288ab830$0600a8c0 at Kuulei1>

> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

> > >

> > > Hi David,

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > I hope this email is not arriving too late to

> > > participate in your offer to

> > > provide the URL for this phone message serv ice.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > With this service, I can envision our teachers using

> > > this service to remind

> > > students of homework assignments, tests, fieldtrips,

> > > etc. I can also

> > > envision it being used by the students on class

> > > projects in order to

> > > collaborate with each other. For example, our high

> > > school foundations kids

> > > (pre-GED) recently went on a field trip to our ocean

> > > center and each was

> > > assigned a fish species to study. If we had this

> > > service, each student

> > > could send a phone message to the other students

> > > highlighting 5 features of

> > > their species, then the other students could save

> > > each message and record

> > > them in their notes when they got back to class.

> > > This could all be done at

> > > the ocean center when the students are scattered

> > > across the site studying

> > > their fish.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Just an idea. I am interested in hearing more about

> > > this service.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Thanks,

> > >

> > > Ku'ulei Reeser

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Hui Malama Learning Center

> > >

> > > Technology Coordinator

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > _____

> > >

> > > From: David J. Rosen [mailto:djrosen at comcast.net]

> > > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 6:24 AM

> > > To: The Technology and Literacy Discussion List

> > > Subject: [Technology 1353] Send your students a

> > > phone message,yourself a

> > > reminder, or....

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Technology colleagues,

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > &g t; Suppose there were a free service that enabled you

> > > -- from a cell phone or a

> > > land line -- to send up to a 30-second voice message

> > > to yourself, or to

> > > anyone you had listed in an address book that you

> > > had created for this

> > > purpose. Suppose your students could send messages

> > > this way, too, from their

> > > phones. Suppose when you called the toll-free number

> > > (U.S. and Canada only)

> > > it said "Hi (your name), who do you want to send a

> > > message to? " Suppose you

> > > then said the person's name (or "me" for sending

> > > yourself reminders). Then,

> > > suppose you spoke your brief message. Then, in a few

> > > minutes, suppose the

> > > message were sent to an e-mail address (as a

> > > translated text message, with a

> > > "real voice" audio option) or as an SMS text

> > > message. Suppose, also, that

> > > you could set up a group of people, and whenever you

> > > wanted to, you could

> > > send them all one voice/text/email message. (Suppose

> > > this group were all the

> > > students in your class, or all the instructors at

> > > your program, who have

> > > either a land line or cell phone.)

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Such a free service exists. (There may be more than

> > > one, but I only know of

> > > one.) If you would like to know what it is, here's

> > > the catch: you have to

> > > email me (djrosen at comcast.net) at least one idea of

> > > how you would use this

> > > with students. Then I will email you the URL for the

> > > free service. I am not

> > > promoting this service particularly (although I do

> > > think it could be

> > > useful.) What I am trying to do is to use the

> > > collective in telligence,

> > > imagination and experience of subscribers on this

> > > list to collect ideas

> > > about how to use such a technology. I will compile

> > > whatever I get and send a

> > > summary back to this list.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > If you want to know the Web address, send me -- not

> > > the Technology list --

> > > your idea(s) about how to use this service with your

> > > basic literacy, ESOL,

> > > ABE, ASE, or college transition students, students

> > > -- in a face-to-face or

> > > on-line setting.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > David J. Rosen

> > >

> > > djrosen at comcast.net

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

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> > >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> ______________________________________________________________________

> __

> > ____________

> > Be a better pen pal.

> > Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how.

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> > Message: 3

> > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:22:55 +0000

> > From: "Frederick W. Gibson" <fgibson4 at student.gsu.edu>

> > Subject: [Technology 1386] Re: Send your st udents a phone message,

> > yourself a reminder, or....

> > To: technology at nifl.gov

> > Cc: fgibson4student at bellsouth.net

> > Message-ID: <1195579375.95d9d4cfgibson4 at student.gsu.edu>

> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

> >

> > Hello everyone

> > Check ouit these websites,one is by Rosen that you may have

> already seen. I think there great for intergrating technology into

> adult literacy.

> >

> > Harnessing Technology to Serve Adult Literacy

> >

> > http://alri.org/harness.html

> >

> > http://www.altn.org/techtraining/

> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: "Steve Gwynne" <sgwynne at sdccd.edu>

> > To: "The Technology and Literacy Discussion List"

> <technology at nifl.gov>

> > Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:54:55 -0800

> > Subject: [Technology 1384] Re: Send your students a phone

> message, yourself a reminder, or....

> >

> > Hi Donna,

> >

> > Just wanted you to kn ow, I got Screencast back up so the

> tutorial linked in

> > Unitedstreaming should work.

> > steve

> >

> > ________________________________

> >

> > From: technology-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Lalitha Garapaty

> > Sent: Sat 11/17/2007 4:53 PM

> > To: technology at nifl.gov

> > Subject: [Technology 1383] Send your students a phone

> message,yourself a

> > reminder, or....

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > Some thoughts with reference to adult literacy -

> >

> > For busy adults working sometimes more than one job

> > and have little time/energy to work on self-literacy -

> >

> > Use as a medium of instruction - post, post-classroom

> > content as a thirty second podcast via phone, for

> > re-emphasis, recall and to share tips. For ex.

> > "whenever you see this word, it should remind you of

> > pronoun."

> >

> > Among adult literacy instructors -

> > Sharing instructional tips, a change in instructional

> > strategy, change of content if it makes better sense

> > during teaching. This exchange as voice mail or text

> > message would enable other instructors to test these

> > immediately in their classes and communicate the same

> > with others.

> >

> > Lalitha

> >

> > --- technology-request at nifl.gov wrote:

> >

> > > Send Technology mailing list submissions to

> > > technology at nifl.gov

> > >

> > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web,

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> > > 1. [Technology 1379] Re: Send your students a

> > > phone message,

> > > yourself a reminder, or.... (Kuulei Reeser)

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> > > Message: 1

> > > Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:22:21 -1000

> > > From: "Kuulei Reeser" <kuulei.reeser at mauihui.org>

> > > Subject: [Technology 1379] Re: Send your students a

> > > phone message,

> > > yourself a reminder, or....

> > > To: "'The Technology and Literacy Discussion List'"

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> > > Hi David,

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > I hope this email is not arriving too late to

> > > participate in your offer to

> > > provide the URL for this phone message service.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > With this service, I can envision our teachers using

> > > this service to remind

> > > students of homework assignments, tests, fieldtrips,

> > > etc. I can also

> > > envision it being used by the students on class

> > > projects in order to

> > > collaborate with each other. For example, our high

> > > school foundations kids

> > > (pre-GED) recently went on a field trip to our ocean

> > > center and each was

> > > assigned a fish species to study. If we had this

> > > service, each student

> > > could send a phone message to the other students

> > > highlighting 5 features of

> > > their species, then the other students could save

> > > each message and record

> > & gt; them in their notes when they got back to class.

> > > This could all be done at

> > > the ocean center when the students are scattered

> > > across the site studying

> > > their fish.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Just an idea. I am interested in hearing more about

> > > this service.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Thanks,

> > >

> > > Ku'ulei Reeser

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Hui Malama Learning Center

> > >

> > > Technology Coordinator

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > _____

> > >

> > > From: David J. Rosen [mailto:djrosen at comcast.net]

> > > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 6:24 AM

> > > To: The Technology and Literacy Discussion List

> > > Subject: [Technology 1353] Send your students a

> > > phone message,yourself a

> > > reminder, or....

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Technology colleagues,

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Suppose there were a free service that enabled you

> > > -- from a cell phone or a

> > > land line -- to send up to a 30-second voice message

> > > to yourself, or to

> > > anyone you had listed in an address book that you

> > > had created for this

> > > purpose. Suppose your students could send messages

> > > this way, too, from their

> > > phones. Suppose when you called the toll-free number

> > > (U.S. and Canada only)

> > > it said "Hi (your name), who do you want to send a

> > > message to? " Suppose you

> > > then said the person's name (or "me" for sending

> > > yourself reminders). Then,

> > > suppose you spoke your brief message. Then, in a few

> > > minutes, suppose the

> > > message were sent to an e-mail address (as a

> > &g t; translated text message, with a

> > > "real voice" audio option) or as an SMS text

> > > message. Suppose, also, that

> > > you could set up a group of people, and whenever you

> > > wanted to, you could

> > > send them all one voice/text/email message. (Suppose

> > > this group were all the

> > > students in your class, or all the instructors at

> > > your program, who have

> > > either a land line or cell phone.)

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Such a free service exists. (There may be more than

> > > one, but I only know of

> > > one.) If you would like to know what it is, here's

> > > the catch: you have to

> > > email me (djrosen at comcast.net) at least one idea of

> > > how you would use this

> > > with students. Then I will email you the URL for the

> > > free service. I am not

> > > promoting this service particularly (although I do

> > > think it could be

> > > useful.) What I am trying to do is to use the

> > > collective intelligence,

> > > imagination and experience of subscribers on this

> > > list to collect ideas

> > > about how to use such a technology. I will compile

> > > whatever I get and send a

> > > summary back to this list.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > If you want to know the Web address, send me -- not

> > > the Technology list --

> > > your idea(s) about how to use this service with your

> > > basic literacy, ESOL,

> > > ABE, ASE, or college transition students, students

> > > -- in a face-to-face or

> > > on-line setting.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > David J. Rosen

> > >

> > > djrosen at comcast.net

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

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