You know the story: handsome but inarticulate soldier Christian falls in love with Roxane, enlists the help of honey-tongued, big-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac to woo her with love poems. (Steve Martin was great in the film.) All ends in tragedy. Something similar is happening with the rapid uptake of AI voice-to-text technology. Teachers, doctors, those on dating websites, town councillors, students submitting work, lecturers marking work, planning officers, to name only a few, are routinely relying on artificially created text to complete work assignments. To adapt Roxane: “We are falling in love with an impossibility.”
At a recent training day I was taught how to use AI speech recognition to write reports, letters and emails. A teaching assistant led the session:...<<<Read More>>>...
