Strategies & Apps: Tools for Academic Success: Dictation & Screen Readers

Dictation (or speech-to-text, voice-to-text) applications are a type of software that effectively takes audio content and transcribes it into written words in a word processor or other display destination.

• Speech recognition software is extremely valuable to anyone who needs to generate a lot of written content without a lot of manual typing. It is also useful for people with disabilities that make it difficult for them to use a keyboard.
• Speech-to-text software may also be known as voice recognition software.
• Alternate way to type text and also control the computer with your voice. 

Screen readers read the text on the screen in a computerized voice. You can control what is read to you by moving the cursor to the relevant area of text with a mouse or the arrows on your keyboard.

• "Reads" (speaks) the content of a page or computer screen to you

Chart from The Beginner's Guide to Dictation Software: The Best Apps for Voice to Text Productivity