Using a text to speech feature is a great tool to use when students need extra help reading. There are so many different ways students can access the text to speech functionality whether it is through the accessibility feature on the Chromebook or through the use of an extension. Teaching students to utilize this tool will greatly improve their independence while reading.
Among the many options Kami has to offer, one of them is text to speech. This video highlights how students can easily have a PDF or other document read to them in Kami.
Each student has built in accessibility settings on their Chromebook that allows for text to speech capabilities. This video shows you how to easily set this up for reading text on websites, Google documents, Slides, Gmail, etc.
Read Write is an excellent tool that can be used on websites as well as Google Docs for text to speech. Students can easily bring up the tool bar, select the text to be read and click play.
If you are looking for an easy way for students to read websites, the Immersive Reader extension is a great tool for this purpose! There are several uses for this particular tool, text to speech on websites being one of them.
Speech to Text is a great option when students have a difficult time with writing, spelling, or getting thoughts down on paper. The videos below are great examples of ways students can utilize speech to text in the classroom.
Students can use Text to Speech within Google Slides.
Students can use the dictation feature built into their Chromebooks to add text to emails, documents or text boxes.
Voice typing is an option within Google Docs that students can easily access.
In Kami, students can use voice comments to respond to various parts of text.
The Immersive Reader extension is an excellent tool that can be used in multitude of ways, including translation of websites.
Common Lit includes a translation feature for their English texts in addition to Spanish only texts. Thisis a great option for Spanish speaking students!
Read Write allows students to translate single words within a website and hear that word spoken aloud.
Subtitles can easily be added to videos in YouTube. This short video shows how this can be done quickly and simply.
Teachers can use Kapwing to generate subtitles for videos that contain proper punctuation and capitalization.