Jocelyn Chan. Task 3 Voice-to-Text
I appreciated Jocelyn’s voice to text assignment because of the different approach she took to the assignment. I laughed because I think we can all relate to the fact that she tells us what she will do and then almost immediately starts of on something else and then comes back to the main point. The “train of thought” nature of the assignment is intriguing because I think it showed a lot about how we can often struggle with maintaining focus on one task for significant periods of time or how we need to multi-task because while I’m sure there was things that could have been described (even if they were really boring) Jocelyn chose to have a second thing to discuss rather than go with the boring things on the drive. The nature of her self-talk had me laughing a little as these are all things that we do but it is very strange to see in printed word and then how she attempts to jump straight back into the story, like the example below:
“I guess this is kind of like a Vlog except in audio so I guess this is an a a log oh my gosh OK OK oh we are I don’t know what this is we are very close to ninth Street there’s also not too much going on there’s a bear traffic but not too bad”
What I found interesting about this was the total unscripted nature of the speech. Even though the assignment was to have an “unscripted story” most of us at least had a script in their minds and knew the story they were going to tell. Even though I wasn’t reading from a piece of paper, the script of the story was there, I knew the story well and was able to go through it based off of it being a real life story. I may bounce around a bit or have to go back to pieces I forgot but the story/narrative was already built.
For Jocelyn I was very intrigued by the idea of what she didn’t tell us about. We often talk about hidden curriculum and about how backgrounds and learning experiences shape our identities and observations and I wondered about what kinds of things she either may not have noticed, or noticed but didn’t talk about because she felt them how important and, if I or anyone else was on the drive doing the same thing, how would our stories have differed from the one Jocelyn told. Would they have been similar enough that you thought we were in the same car or different enough that you may not have been able to tell we were on the same road.