If you\u2019re studying abroad, especially if any element of your course is online, getting your notes right from calls with your tutor, be those seminars or one-to-one tutorials, is essential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pen and paper was the preferred method of taking notes for years, obviously before computers were even invented. But unless you\u2019re skilled in the ancient art of shorthand, the chances are that keeping up using those old methods is going to mean losing a lot of detail about what was discussed in an online tutoring session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s true that early transcription and dictation software had their glitches, especially those allied to word processing packages, which took weeks and even months to learn an individual user\u2019s voice. Even then they made so many mistakes it was almost as quick to retype all the passages manually. Obviously, people with accessibility issues and visual impairment have a greater need for dictation software, and fortunately, things are changing fast with the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), meaning that transcription services don\u2019t necessarily have to be outsourced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n