[ARCHIVED] Capitalization in Speed Grader/voice recognition

[woletzja21]

Can speed grader capitalize the first letter when using voice recorder? It sure makes it less speedy.

[rmurchshafer · Accepted solution]

Hi Julie,

I love the voice recognition feature in SpeedGrader, but it's actually not a Canvas feature.  I think it's using a system developed by Google and that is why it only works in the Chrome web browser.  Having said that, I think whenever I use it it does capitalize the first word and as long as I speak punctuation like "period" at the end of a sentence, it starts the next word as a capital letter.  But now testing I see that the very first word is lower case.  Very weird.  But I did find a work around.  When using this feature saying "new line" or "new paragraph" will do just that.  So if you start your dictation by saying "new line", it skips a line but then starts with a capital letter.

So I don't know if this really is a Canvas issue or Google.  If you use the Canvas mobile apps I'm fairly certain it uses the phone's built in text recognition so that might even behave a little differently.

Rick