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Parents and students ensure to take advantage of the following free technologies that will enhance your learning experience. Examples of technologies are provided below with a description and the specific beneits it provides.

Closed Captioning:

Video captioning is more than just text on the screen.

Give students the ability to read along with the video.

Benefits:

- - Crucial to education to prevent disability discrimination.
  - Aid ESL and foreign language students learn the English language.
  - It helps all students better understand and focus on educational videos.
  - Technology is free and easy to use.
  - Activate closed captions from the TV setting menu accessed by pressing the “Menu” button on your remote and selecting “Settings” followed by “Closed Captions.
  - Improve reading comprehension and literacy.
  - Studies show using closed captioning improves student’s test scores.

Speech to Text:

Speak your thoughts into a document instead of writing or typing it. Uses voice recognition software to insert text. Examples of software with text to speech technology:

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft OneNote

Google Docs.

How to Use Voice Typing in Google Docs

10 Best Speech to Text Tools to Speed Up Your Writing Process

Benefits:

Helps all students -proven to improve academic performance.
Students with disabilities.
English language learners.

Text to Speech:

Application that is used to create a spoken sound version of the text in a computer document, such as a help file or a Web page.

It’s sometimes called “read aloud” technology.

Examples:

Microsoft Office enables text to speech in OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word. and Google apps.

https://www.ispeech.org/text.to.speech ispeech

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.tts&hl=en_US Google text to speech

https://alternativeto.net/software/dictanote/about/ Dictanote

https://alternativeto.net/software/speechnotes/ Speechnotes

Benefits:

All students
Students with disabilities.
English Language Learners.
Learning with dyslexia - helps these students process written and oral language in classroom setting.

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