Universal Design for Learning: Speech to Text

The iPad’s built in accessibility features are free, and designed to support all users.  They are universal in scope, meaning that we all use them at one time or another. The iPad’s accessibility features allow each user to customize the device to meet their needs and preferences. Among other things, users can customize settings to view websites clutter-free, enlarge font, zoom in to see close up, have text read aloud, speak to write, adjust the background color, use abbreviation expansion and limit a user's access to specific apps/pages. 

The iPad has some universal features built in that can assist with learning.  The first one I am going to be presenting here is Speech-to-Text, and specifically Dragon Dictation. To use this app, I had to first download it to my iPad.  I found Dragon Dictation easy to use. What I don't like, is that some of the words get mixed up or misinterpreted and sometimes It takes more time to go back in and add punctuation and Capital letters and change the words.  I find that this app that is supposed to save me time, doesn't really do the job.  I made this screencast about the app and how I tried to use it.  I was thinking it might be great for a lot of typing up of artist statements that I need to do for the art show.  Unfortunately, it turns out that it's actually faster for me to type them out on the keyboard on my computer than to try the speech-to-text.