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Student Guide: Use the Text-to-Speech Toolbar in Advanced Assessments
Student Guide: Use the Text-to-Speech Toolbar in Advanced Assessments

The TextHelp Speechstream toolbar is available in Advanced Assessments and provides text-to-speech, a dictionary, and translation.

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Written by Monica Burke
Updated over a week ago

If your teacher turned on the TextHelp toolbar for your assessment, you will see this at the top of your assessment:

This toolbar has these features:

You can move the toolbar anywhere on the screen by using this button:


Text-to-Speech Read Aloud

Read-Aloud Settings

  • Voice Speed: You can have it read to you slow, medium, or fast.

  • Text Highlight: As the text is spoken, it will be highlighted. You can choose which color the text is highlighted in.

  • Speech Mode: You can choose to have the text spoken when you click on it or when you hover over it.

  • Translations: You can change both of these options to any of these languages: English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Using the Read-Aloud Tool

1️⃣ Click the pointer icon.

2️⃣ Click on a word.

3️⃣ Listen and watch. It reads from the start of the sentence.

4️⃣ Click Pause or Stop when you want it to stop reading.

5️⃣ To turn off the read-aloud, click the pointer icon again.


Talking Single-Word Translator

This will translate a single word for you.

1️⃣ Select a word. You can click and drag the cursor, or double-click on the word.

2️⃣ Click the translator icon.

3️⃣ The translation is there for you to read.


Talking Dictionary

This will show you the definition of a word.

1️⃣ Select a word. You can click and drag the cursor or double-click on the word.

2️⃣ Click the book icon.

3️⃣ To have the definition read aloud to you, click the play button next to the definition.


Picture Dictionary

This will show you the definition of a word in the form of a picture.

1️⃣ Select a word. You can click and drag the cursor, or double-click on the word.

2️⃣ Click the picture icon.


Highlighters

You can use highlighters on your test.

1️⃣ Select the text that you want to highlight. You can click and drag the cursor or double-click on the word.

2️⃣ Click on the highlighter icon.

3️⃣ Choose the color highlighter you want.

4️⃣ To erase your highlighter, select the text. Then click on the paintbrush icon.

5️⃣ If you have a lot of highlighted text you want to see together, click the collect icon.

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