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Why on earth would you want spell check on text-to-speech for the blind? Spell check is for people writing messages, not for people reading messages. This is a
by ouid 9y ago
Why on earth would you want spell check on text-to-speech for the blind? Spell check is for people writing messages, not for people reading messages.
This is a terrible idea.
- scarface74 9y agoI'm not talking about the feature that reads text aloud. I'm referring to the OCR "document" feature that makes transcription errors that could easily be fixed if it had any level of text correction.
- ouid 9y agoregardless, text correction is a tool for the writer, not a tool for the reader. In general, text-correction does one of two things, it makes an error better, or it makes an error worse, unless you can guarantee that it only does the first thing, you have no idea what the total value of the operation will be. Additionally, presumably its capacity to make an error better is not better than a human's capacity to make that error better. Even over very small timescales, tens of seconds, a computer confronted with a typo will never outperform a human confronted with the same typo.
- scarface74 9y agoA simple text correction could tell the difference between the word "rnethod" and "method" and know one is more likely an error in ocr.
- ouid 9y agowhat if it were OCR applied to this conversation?