If your child uses a voice to text apparatus in class...

[Anonymous]

for writing assignments, which one does he/she use?

My child has a huge issue with writing. I'm starting to believe it's dysgraphia and would like to try the voice-to-text device to help him complete assignments. I talked to the teacher and we are going to try it at home first as to not disrupt the class to see how it works. If your child uses one, I would love to know which one and if you have any tips.

TIA

[Anonymous]

Our school tried my son on different ones to see what would work best. They had a number of different options. I honestly don't recall which one he uses. But, it did not require anything from me.

[Anonymous]

My son generally uses the voice to text built into his iPad. He's been offered and tested others, but the simplicity of the built-in one seems to win over. He has dyslexia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son generally uses the voice to text built into his iPad. He's been offered and tested others, but the simplicity of the built-in one seems to win over. He has dyslexia.

how does he transfer his work from ipad to something he can turn in?

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Anonymous wrote:My son generally uses the voice to text built into his iPad. He's been offered and tested others, but the simplicity of the built-in one seems to win over. He has dyslexia.

how does he transfer his work from ipad to something he can turn in?

The school is an 1:1 iPad school, so all work is on the iPad already and then he emails it from the iPad. So if he pulls up PowerPoint on the iPad he can use the little mic button on the keypad to dictate. Same with any other program or app. He then emails his work to the teacher or uploads it to the website where they turn in work. He could also send the work to a printer, or turn it into a PDF, or whatever.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son generally uses the voice to text built into his iPad. He's been offered and tested others, but the simplicity of the built-in one seems to win over. He has dyslexia.

how does he transfer his work from ipad to something he can turn in?

The school is an 1:1 iPad school, so all work is on the iPad already and then he emails it from the iPad. So if he pulls up PowerPoint on the iPad he can use the little mic button on the keypad to dictate. Same with any other program or app. He then emails his work to the teacher or uploads it to the website where they turn in work. He could also send the work to a printer, or turn it into a PDF, or whatever.

Got it. Thank you so much.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son generally uses the voice to text built into his iPad. He's been offered and tested others, but the simplicity of the built-in one seems to win over. He has dyslexia.

how does he transfer his work from ipad to something he can turn in?

The school is an 1:1 iPad school, so all work is on the iPad already and then he emails it from the iPad. So if he pulls up PowerPoint on the iPad he can use the little mic button on the keypad to dictate. Same with any other program or app. He then emails his work to the teacher or uploads it to the website where they turn in work. He could also send the work to a printer, or turn it into a PDF, or whatever.

Got it. Thank you so much.

There are also apps for worksheets. I forget what it is called, but you take a photo of the worksheet in the app and it gives you text boxes for the answers. You can then dictate answers into those text boxes, and then email/upload/print the completed worksheet. My did never wanted to go to that trouble for worksheets and I often scribed for him in those situations, so we never did use that app.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son generally uses the voice to text built into his iPad. He's been offered and tested others, but the simplicity of the built-in one seems to win over. He has dyslexia.

how does he transfer his work from ipad to something he can turn in?

The school is an 1:1 iPad school, so all work is on the iPad already and then he emails it from the iPad. So if he pulls up PowerPoint on the iPad he can use the little mic button on the keypad to dictate. Same with any other program or app. He then emails his work to the teacher or uploads it to the website where they turn in work. He could also send the work to a printer, or turn it into a PDF, or whatever.

Got it. Thank you so much.

There are also apps for worksheets. I forget what it is called, but you take a photo of the worksheet in the app and it gives you text boxes for the answers. You can then dictate answers into those text boxes, and then email/upload/print the completed worksheet. My did never wanted to go to that trouble for worksheets and I often scribed for him in those situations, so we never did use that app.

I have been taking dictation for him for some things like forms and worksheets that he has to fill out and it's been working nicely. He is actually able to concentrate better because he is not thinking about the actual act writing. I will look into this app.