--- Forwarded Message from "Francois Crompton-Roberts" <[log in to unmask]> ---

>From: "Francois Crompton-Roberts" <[log in to unmask]>
>Organization: University of London
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 16:28:12 +0000
>Subject: Re: #6097 automatic dictation correction
>Reply-to: Francois C-R <[log in to unmask]>
>Priority: normal
>In-reply-to: <[log in to unmask]>

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> Our French curriculum coordinator wants to record a dictation
> digitally, to which her students will listen and simultaneously
> transcribe in Word. So far, no problem. However, she wants the
> students' transcriptions to be scored automatically against a key
> she will provide, noting any errors so that she need only assign a
> grade. I am not at all sure how this can be done. Ideas? A graduate
> student here believes she saw a similar program at Bryn Mawr a few
> years ago.

Hmm, doesn't sound like an easy one... Perhaps a Word macro that 
involves the "compare two documents and highlight the differences" 
feature?


Francois C-R