ReadSpeaker is a certified partner of Canvas and is fully integrated in the LMS. Text-to-speech functionality is simply added as Global JavaScript, so the entire learning environment is instantly speech-enabled.
A complete set of text-to-speech learning tools
See how students and teachers are using text to speech in the Canvas environment:
If it’s not easy and intuitive students won’t find it and use it. I think that is why you have seen such a large number of students starting to use it as they are finding it on their own. I mean it says ‘Listen’, how much easier can you get. The general record, play pause icons make it intuitive to other technology that people may have used.