Cleaning up transcriptions into grammatical English
Mark De Vos
There are a few things that I hope are integrated into the next version.
Wish 1: Mote does a great job of transcribing what I say. But unfortunately, my exact words are often stream of conciousness, slightly disorganized, full of repetitions, ums and ahs (like any normal person's, especially when I am thinking on the fly). What I then have to do is to run a separate script to clean it up and rewrite the text transcription in proper English. It would be great if Mote had an option to "clean up" and "reorganize" the text version of the voice notes to present them in grammatical English while retaining the tone and jargon of the original. i.e. I want my original voice and then a cleaned up version of a transcript (I am not asking for the original voice note to be reengineered).
Brent Warner
I'd ask that if a feature like this is added that it be put in as an opt-in in the settings and something teachers can turn off for their students. One of the great things about transcription for English Language Learners is that they get a chance to visualize what they actually said. Speaking and writing are two totally different language skillsets and despite the fact that schools set them up as mirror images of one another, they are not produced or received in the same way, so setting up a system to "clean up" one into the other is like "cleaning up" milk into cheese - that's not really how it works; Nothing is wrong with either, but even though they may be made of the same ingredients, they shouldn't be mistaken for one another. If AI comes in and "fixes" spoken English (and how would ELLs know if the fix is actually communicating what they were trying to say?), it would be detrimental to students' ability to process their own language at a meta level.