Microsoft Learning Tools

• Free within MS Word, OneNote, Edge, Outlook, and PowerPoint with Office 365 (student-free version) 

• Read Aloud available in MS Edge

• Immersive Reader with read-aloud in OneNote and Word 

• Speak selected text available in PowerPoint and Outlook

• Provides reading and writing supports for PDFs

• Must be signed into Chrome browser with a CMS log in to access this tool

Read&Write for Google Chrome

• Google apps (docs, sheets, slides, Websites, PDFs

• Settings: Highlight text, voice, voice rate, and continuous reading

• All CMS students signed into school account have access

Screenshot Reader

• Chrome Extension is accessible to CMS students when signed into their CMS Google Chrome account.

• Allows for inaccessbable texts to be read aloud. 

Chromebook - Select to Speak

• Settings - Accessibility

• Select to Speak

• Choose voice, speaking rate, and highlighting

• Built-into Chromebook OS

iPad - Speak Selection

• Settings  -  Accessibility

• Spoken Content - Speak Selection

• Customize voice, speaking rate, and highlighting 

• Built-into iOS 

Microsoft Lens

• Free app for Windows 10, iOS, and Android while signed into your Microsoft account 

• Take photo and open in Immersive Reader for read aloud and display settings. Will translate and read in over 60 languages.

• This is a free app on iPads that allows you to take an image and convert it directly into a PDF.

• Read-aloud is not built-in the app

Prizmo 

• Free iOS app for iPad/iPhone

• Take photo and have text read aloud with highlighting of words

• Easy to use for access to printed materials