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In a 2024 single-case study of eight middle school students, seven of the eight increased their text productivity when they wrote with speech to text, against a keyboarding baseline.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“The results demonstrated that seven of the eight students increased text productivity and that the proportion of word-level accuracy was maintained or improved.”
Speech-to-text intervention to support text production among students with writing difficulties: a single-case study in Nordic countries, Gunilla Almgreen Bäck et al., Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2024, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.1080/17483107.2024.2351488)- What it measures
- Students in Norway and Sweden wrote narrative texts with speech to text during an intensive intervention. Keyboarding was the baseline condition.
- What it does not show
- Eight students and no control group. The gain is in how much they wrote; word-level accuracy was kept or improved, not shown to rise.