Helperbird's Immersive Reader for Google Docs and Slides is an add-on extension that changes text into a clean, customizable reading view that can speak words aloud, highlight sentences, and adjust spacing or fonts. It helps students in the classroom by removing distractions and letting them hear their document read aloud as they follow along, which boosts comprehension and makes Google Workspace tools far more accessible. 

Step 1:

Open a Google Doc or Slide

Click on Extension, Helperbird, then Open Helperbird

**Note: This extension can only be used by Editors of the file, not viewers. 

Step 1:

Highlight any text, then click Immersive

Step 2:

Press the Play button to have the text read.

Step 3:

Press the Pause button to have the text pause reading

Step 4:

To get more text to read, close Immersive Reader by selecting the X.

Then repeat steps 2-4; highlight text, click on Immersive, and press the Play button.

Step 1:

Highlight any text, then select Listen.

Step 2:

Press the Play button to have the text read. 

Press the Stop button to stop the reading.

Step 3:

To get more text to read, highlight more text and press the Play button.

**Note: The voice is robotic and does not highlight content as it reads; however, the tool does not need to be closed each time to highlight text.