Save as PDF03.D.10 Text-To-Speech Highlighting Tool
eDoctrina now allows the option to have assessment questions, passages, or an entire test read to students while highlighting each word WITHOUT having to link audio to every question and passage! This new tool can be used with an entire class, or assigned to specific students!
VIDEO: To see a short video on how to enable this feature within the assessment editor, please click HERE
- This tool will read text that has been typed or entered using copy/paste.
- Images pasted into the program cannot be read.
- Text-to-Speech can read questions built through our equation editors.
- If the user would like to personalize audio for any questions read aloud to students, the user can add a recording of their own voice through our Record Audio tool. (This tool is detailed at the end of this Help Document.)
To enable the Text-to-Speech highlighting tool, the user must first venture to the "Online Settings" section of the assessment editor. Under the "Student Tools: Language Tools" menu, find the option "Allow Text-To-Speech".
When enabling Text-To-Speech, the user is able to select from three options: (1) To read all passages and questions (2) To read questions only (3) To read passages only.
The user can even select a certain type of voice reader using the filter to the right of this option!
Student View
When students login to take an assessment with the Text-To-Speech Highlighter enabled, each question will have a small audio icon available 
. When this icon is clicked, the feature will enable and begin to read.
Once the feature starts to read, the text will highlight word-by-word as it is read aloud. Additional icons will appear allowing the student to pause the feature, or start reading from the beginning.
In the event that a student would like to choose where they would like the TTS engine to begin reading in a passage, question, or answer choice, they can simply right click where they would like to begin and select Play from here.
The tool will begin reading wherever the user selected to begin as opposed to starting at the beginning. In the even that they want the entire passage, question, or answer choice selected, they can also right click and select Play Passage.
Formatting Text-To-Speech for Questions Made in Equation Editor
If for any reason the user would like to change the words being read aloud for the equation, follow these steps:
o Right click on the equation
o Select “Image Properties”
o Edit the words in the “Alternative Text” box to reflect EXACTLY what the user wants read aloud by the Text-to-Speech tool when the equation is read to students.
o Click “OK.”
Assigning TTS Highlighter to Specific Students
VIDEO: To see a short video on how to assign this feature to specific student, please click HERE
If the TTS Highlighter is not something the user would like assigned to all students, but rather to a select group of students with testing modifications, this feature can be enabled for those kiddos while assigning the assessment.
From the Teacher Dashboard, assign the assessment as one would normally assign any test to students. To learn more about assigning online, please click here.
Once the Start and End time have been selected, and the additional modification options are enabled, the 4th column will represent the TTS feature.
For students that need this feature turned ON, the user can simply click the blue "N" next to their name. There are three options for enabling the TTS. An orange "A" will enable TTS for questions and passages, an orange "Q" will enable TTS for questions only, or an orange "P" will enable TTS for passages only. Any students that needs this modification will need to have it manually turned on by making the blue "N" an orange "A" , "Q" or "P" in the TTS column.