I’m always looking for different ways to integrate technology for supporting both adults and students of all abilities. Recently I discovered the “Talking Web” Text to Speech Chrome Extension. This extension assists the user by using voice to read websites aloud. One feature I really like is Talking Web allows the user to highlight website text and save a wav sound file. Immediately I saw many different ways this could be used to support students.
How Can Talking Web Help Students?
- Relieves stress due to low reading skills
- Supports auditory learners
- Listening to speech capability supports maintaining focus
- Save research info as wav file for later review
- Sound file playback is listened to while typing research paper
- Wav Sound File used as “Quoted Information” for a project
- May be embedded or linked for various presentations
- Save sound files as a study tool
Simple Steps for Saving Wav File
- Highlight text
- Right click
- Choose Talking Web
- Click Download Wav for the selected text
- A Window will open
- Save as is where you name the file
- Where let’s you save the Wav file to location of choice
- Click Save when done
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