Tests of vigilance and attention
Measuring attention remains a concern in many settings. Some work tasks are not very error tolerant. Here are a series of sample tests to measure attention in children and adults.
Publish at November 02 2022 Updated November 16 2023
The reading of this text (in French) is available in parallel here.
Voice reading by machines has been around since before the Internet. The robotic voices of the movies are familiar to us from childhood. If this kind of voice is suitable for a movie it is quite different when it comes to extended use. Already machines often talk to us on the phone, if on top of that they start reading chapters, lectures or giving us instructions, our level of expectation increases drastically.
The use of "text to speech" services is not limited to training.
Artificial intelligence allows us to develop synthetic voices that can render the intonations and subtleties of diction specific to each language and accent and adapt them according to the subject matter. This is a far cry from monotone, robotic voices.
We tested the Murf.AI app that reads any text you offer it. You'll be able to see for yourself the progress. Available in 20 languages and even more accents, the service is pretty easy to use.
Having your text read by an "objective" machine allows us to detect several mistakes that may have escaped our attention.
Missing letters, improper punctuation, or faulty chords will sound strange to your ears when a human reader would have automatically compensated for them. The machine reads what's there. The difference is interesting.
We have corrected a few errors in the text that are not in the audio version. Have you noticed them?
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