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Kraft notes that speech to text does not make spelling mistakes as such, but it may mishear words and so make semantic errors.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“even though an STT tool does not make any spelling mistakes as such, it may “mishear” words and thus make semantic errors”
Revisions in written composition: Introducing speech-to-text to children with reading and writing difficulties, Sanna Kraft, Frontiers in Education, 2023, Introduction.
Open the original (DOI 10.3389/feduc.2023.1133930)- What it measures
- A background statement in the introduction of the study, which then tests how children revise text composed with speech to text.
- What it does not show
- This is the author's framing in the introduction, not a result of the study.