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How a Text to Speech Tool Works For Educators?

The emergence of assistive Text to Speech tools can potentially transform the way students learn with the assistance of digital devices. Through this write-up, we have discussed some of the major benefits of Text to Speech tools for educators and children with learning disabilities.

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How a Text to Speech Tool Works For Educators?

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  1. How a Text to Speech Tool Works For Educators?

  2. The emergence of free-to-use Text to Speech tools for educators in the eLearning space is proving to be an effective assistive technology tool that can help both educators and students.

  3. What is the purpose of Text to Speech technology? Text to Speech (or TTS) is a technology that in simple terms, converts text into audio or spoken language. Initially developed as a tool for visually impaired people, TTS is now evolving as a tool for a variety of purposes, including:

  4. Businesses to promote their content to an extended audience including those with reading or learning disabilities, and to a foreign audience with non-native language proficiency. Provides access to digital content on a growing number of connected devices including mobile phones, tablets, and laptops.

  5. Enable users to “listen to content” from different sources including eBooks, blogs, PDF documents, or any informational website. • Enhances the knowledge of users with different “learning strengths” such as visual learning, auditory learning, or a combination of both. • Elevates the user experience for online users while accessing brand content in various formats.

  6. How do Text to Speech Tools Work? While the Text to Speech technology has been in development for many decades, its recent advancement has been greatly enabled due to the emergence of deep learning technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

  7. An example of this is the success of the AI-enabled Google Wave Net technology that can generate human voice-like audio in around 106 voices and 21 languages hat can generate human voice-like audio in around 106 voices and 21 language.

  8.  Modern-day TTS technology comprises of a frontend and backend component, that combine to provide seamless speech synthesis. While the frontend tool manages the conversion of text to language-based phonetics and sentences, the backend tool converts this data into audio or natural sounds.

  9. How does Text to Speech Tools Benefit the Education Industry?

  10. Overcome reading-related issues for students.

  11. Improves academic performance.

  12. Aids special education.

  13. Enables smart education.

  14. Increased mobility

  15. How to incorporate Assistive Text to Speech Tools in the Classroom?

  16. Provide a human-like voice in the audio file. Supports multiple types of voices. Allows speed settings in audio playback. Support for Bi-modal reading.

  17. Conclusion The emergence of assistive Text to Speech tools can potentially transform the way students learn with the assistance of digital devices. Through this write-up, we have discussed some of the major benefits of Text to Speech tools for educators and children with learning disabilities.

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