Speech and Text Editing

Catalog description

This course introduces students to speech recognition and document text editing. It emphasizes their usefulness in improving personal productivity. Students learn to use voice and continuous speech recognition software to create documents without using a computer keyboard. Students improve writing, reading, and speaking skills by learning to enunciate correctly and speak clearly; thus, preventing repetitive stress injuries caused by overuse of the computer keyboard After using voice and speech recognition software, students will then continue to edit and proofread documents involve more than just using the spell check on your computer. This course will review sentence structure, grammar usage, punctuation, capitalization, and number style. Frequently misspelled words and confusing words will also be covered. Students' skills will be enhanced through proofreading and editing business documents. Corequisite OFC162. Instructional Support Fee applies. 3 Credits.