Moodle

A complete set of text-to-speech learning tools

See how students and teachers are using text to speech in the Brightspace environment

The Suite of Learning ToolsListen, Simple View, Page Mask, and more!Using text to speech for facultyTools for teachers and administrators.Using text to speech for studentsSee how students are using text to speech.And more …See all the things you can do.

Highlights

• Seamlessly integrated, and easy to use
• High-quality, natural-sounding voices
• Assessment, accessibility, and accommodations support directly within the Moodle environment
  

Features

• Can be activated in Moodle on a school -by-school or course-by-course basis
• Just one click to listen, and follow along with the highlighted text
• Synchronized Highlighting – The text is highlighted by word and/or sentence as it is being read.
• Read Selected Text – Select any text, and click the Listen button to listen to it.
• Floating Listen button, player, and toolbar stay visible when scrolling down on a page and can be conveniently repositioned by user
• User Settings – Customize reading speed, highlighting colors, and more
• Read on hover allows users to scroll over an area of text and have it read aloud automatically
• Simple view shows the content in an easy-to-read format, using font, size, and colors of your choice
• Integrated reading and translation tools
• Audio File – Download an MP3 audio file of the content for offline listening.
• Quick and easy access to all features through expandable player and toolbar
• Fully Server-Based – No installation or hosting necessary
• Customer-specific pronunciation dictionary
• Online Statistics – The ReadSpeaker Customer Portal contains detailed usage information, including which pages have been listened to, and when.
• Step-by-step instructions and a readily-available support team if you should need any help
• And more…

At the University of Manchester, we are always looking for new ways to enhance the student’s experience and learning. ReadSpeaker could offer us a unique functionality within our VLE so the integration was simple and seamless. Our users are very satisfied with the quality of the text to speech feature and the very short time required to generate the audio. Another positive factor is that with just one click, all our users can listen to our text without the need for any download benefiting different types of students according to their preferences and learning styles/needs.

– Ian Miller, University of Manchester

After two months of having ReadSpeaker available, we’ve already gotten a call from a student who said being able to play the audio was helping him get through course material faster.

– Kentucky Educational Television