Immersive Reader And Microsoft Word For Mac
What’s New in EDU: Immersive Reader comes to Teams as inclusivity comes into focus by Microsoft Education Team Posted on September 18, 2018 October 22, 2018 For our September episode of What’s New in EDU, we’re helping bring inclusivity into focus. As part of a post about the success of Learning Tools in education, Microsoft revealed today that it is adding immersive reader features like Read Aloud and Text Spacing to Word for iPad. Back in February, Microsoft announced that it was bringing its Learning Tools, including Immersive Reader, to Word and OneNote Online.Today, the company announced the availability of Immersive. Picture Dictionary in Immersive Reader Built into Immersive Reader, Picture Dictionary enables students to view a picture representation of a word they click on. Students can combine with Read Aloud for multi-sensory processing, a technique to aid reading and comprehension.
Back in February, Microsoft announced that it was bringing its Learning Tools, including Immersive Reader, to Word and OneNote Online. Today, the company announced the availability of Immersive Reader in Outlook.com, Outlook on the web, and OneNote for Windows 10.
Immersive Reader includes a number of features for helping users to read more efficiently. For example, it will read text aloud while highlighting the text. It will also optimize font spacing 'in a narrow column view', show the breaks between syllables, and will identify verbs, nouns, and adjectives.
In Outlook, you can access this feature by right-clicking on a message and selecting 'Show in immersive reader'; or in OneNote, you can select Immersive Reader from the View menu.
Microsoft also announced today that it's expanding the availability of Immersive Reader. Read Aloud is now available in 14 new languages:
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
Czech
English (Ireland)
French (Switzerland)
German (Austria)
German (Switzerland)
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Indonesian
Romanian
Slovak
Thai
Immersive Reader And Microsoft Word For Mac
The Syllables feature has also been expanded to Hungarian, Indonesian, Romanian, and Slovak, while Parts of Speech is now available for German, Italian, and Dutch with Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Brazilian Portuguese coming later on this summer. Finally, Japanese dictation has been added to the OneNote desktop Learning Tools Add-in.
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Last but not least, Microsoft announced a new Try it out feature, which is the new landing page for Learning Tools. It's a way to quickly test out Immersive Reader, and it supports 39 languages. You can check it out at the Learning Tools page right here.