A Sound Experiment: Writing By Voice And Ear Alone
This blog is a sound experiment.
It will be written entirely by voice recognition – with keyboard-based editing at the end – and it will be written in less than an hour.
I don’t know how many words it will be but I am aiming for 1000. Another aim is to achieve a plain English standard based on Flesch readability metrics – without trying too hard.
I have two main objectives: (1) to test the efficiency of writing by voice recognition alone; (2) to see if the ‘sound test’ really does work. I am always telling my City, University of London students to listen out loud to their own work, to hear themselves reading it back. Is the ear really a better judge than the eye? Maybe I will know more by the end of this blog.
I’ll share some of my thoughts on that at the end and I hope you will give me yours too.
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