A Few Extras

Extra resources that will help navigate your digital journey a little easier.

Immersive Reader is built into many Microsoft apps and includes read aloud, translation, highlights parts of speech, and more. 

(Video 4:15)

Immersive Reader can be added to Google Docs as an add-on.

Dictation: Speech to Text

Rewordify.com lets you paste in text to simplify the vocabulary and has many classic books available with adjusted vocabulary to assist with comprehension. 

(Video 2:38)

Smmry start page with text box to paste in text

Smmry.com lets you paste in text, upload a file, or paste a URL to generate a summary. Select the number of sentences for the summary. 

Wordtune.com is an extension, but on the website, you can try it out without installing the extension. 

Accessible Links

Dictation: Speech to Text

Google Docs has dictation under Tools then Voice Typing. Microsoft has Dictation on the top right. 

Speech to text is built-in on a PC (Windows key + H), on a Mac, and on a Chromebook.