Sentences with phrase «aloud feature»

Starting with this update, Microsoft Edge also expands its read aloud feature (previously only available for epub ebooks) to PDF files and web pages.

You've got a new read - aloud feature, which is great for those who may suffer from visibility issues, or if you're lazy and just don't want to read yourself.

The Nook Tablet has a read - aloud feature, where a prerecorded voice reads the picture book, as well as new recording capabilities, where you can record your own soundtrack to accompany the book — a nice benefit for parents and kids alike.

The read - aloud feature highlights each word as it's read, and also allows the child to touch any word to hear it spoken — I think that has the potential to be an amazing early literacy tool.

After Amazon introduced its text - to - speech function in 2009 with the Kindle 2, the company faced pressure from the Authors Guild which claimed that the read - aloud feature was a copyright infringement.

Ironically, this happens even when end users have full legal rights to that sort of format - shifting; Alice in Wonderland, which is in the public domain, and Lawrence Lessig's Creative - Commons - licensed ebook Remix have both had publishers disable their read - aloud feature.

Some publishers disable the read - aloud feature for their books, making them useless for some readers.

Filed Under: News and Updates Tagged With: Apple, Apple iBook, audible books, digital storybook, iBooks, interactive storybook, read - along books, read - aloud feature, storybook

Welcome to the age of audible ebook storytelling — iBook's Read Aloud feature.

Other useful features include the ability to add notes, annotations, bookmarks, and even photos to whatever you are reading, and a read - aloud feature.

It IS possible that Adobe's read aloud feature, Kindle's text reader, or some other third party read aloud software could have custom code to read a specific character as «bullet» or «subbullet», but the reader software would have to know exactly which character would be used as a bullet or subbullet and know the exceptions (like the same dot - like character used in a sequence for dotted borders and other objects).

Amazon now appears to have caved in to Blount by agreeing to implement a feature that will allow publishers to choose whether to turn off the read - aloud feature.

And let's face it, not every reader will want to trade a professional human reader for the drone of an automated read - aloud feature.

(AP)-- A group representing the blind and other people with disabilities protested limitations to the new read - aloud feature on Amazon.com Inc.'s latest Kindle electronic reader Tuesday, arguing that the restrictions unfairly limit their access to e-books.

Today the company pushed out a new update that introduces a new Read Aloud feature that will narrate free flowing ebooks.

The Barnes and Noble Read Aloud feature found in the Nook Tablet is one of the main draws.

We cover books up to age fourth grade, and with the read aloud feature, these kids can beyond their ability and be introduced to a higher level vocabulary.»

Never mind the fact that Kindle 2's voice has been described as sounding «oddly norwegian» or that Jeff Bezos recently joked with John Stewart that the read aloud feature sounds «a little freaky.»

The read aloud feature requires, as I understand it, a fixed layout.

Emergent readers can improve their comprehension skills by utilizing the read - aloud feature or they can opt to read on their own.

While the ability to increase the font size of the texts may be the single unifying factor of all e-readers in terms of helping the elderly, the read - aloud feature of certain e-readers may be the biggest blessing of all to the aged book lover.

Parents may also find the read aloud feature is a useful.

The Kindle could be promising for the visually impaired because of its read - aloud feature, which utters text in a robotic - sounding voice.

Jeff Bozos himself raved about the read - aloud feature when he showed off the Kindle 2 in 2009.

This is useful for increasing the size of the font or even adopting a read aloud feature.

If I had a Kindle for every student in my class, each one filled with high - interest reading material that addresses topics that speak to young adults, I could use the read - aloud feature on the Kindle so that the students could «read» books they cared about and enjoyed while the words were displayed for them on the screen.

All of my students have the option to listen to the selection through their headphones using the read - aloud feature and no one is made to feel singled out because of his inability to read or his unfamiliarity with the works.

To be fair, not all ebooks have the Read Aloud feature, but a strong majority of them do.

Too bad Anne - Marie wasn't able to include the coding for the Read Aloud feature in her Lynda Fixed Layout tutorial...

Pages can also be turned by swiping on the Siri Remote when the read - aloud feature is turned off.

It also translates documents and has a practice reading aloud feature.

Notably, policies and guidelines that pertain to test accessibility vary across states, and some, such as those for read - aloud features, face controversy as states strive to balance equity and maintaining the meaning and integrity of test scores.

Some publishers may disallow the lend feature, just as many disallow printing or read - aloud features on standard PDF files.

Yet with PDF's you can do this and more — tagging facilitates reflowing text for mobile use, read - aloud features (whether for joggers or reduced vision / access purposes), bookmarks facilitate navigating documents, and hyperlinks, quite simply, should be required in this day and age.

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(Accompanying the book is a CD that features Mumia reading some of the essays aloud, along with comments by Cornel West, Martin Sheen, the late Allen Ginsberg, Sister Helen Prejean, Howard Zinn, and others.)

If you would like to extend your read aloud time to support your toddler to learn, create, play and cook then come and join in with our Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids where each week we share a theme with a featured book (that we let you know in advance) and create a fun learning activity, art or craft, suggestions for messy or sensory play and sometimes even a really easy and fun recipe that you can cook together and share check out our activities we have shared over the years based on The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Designed to promote early literacy in young children up to age 3, these events feature lively read - aloud books and nursery rhymes, followed by open play.

Ford's SYNC in - car communications system offers several features that ng Connect is proposing for its version of the connected car, including vehicle health reporting and the ability to have text messages, news, weather and other personalized information read aloud to the driver.

Additional features include a read - aloud capability, a dictionary / translation function, and customized support for English - language learners (price varies).

And the online video «Strategies for Reading Aloud to Young Children» features a teacher modeling a successful read - aloud for chilAloud to Young Children» features a teacher modeling a successful read - aloud for chilaloud for children.

Whether you show this vintage TV version or the feature - length 2012 animated film, or simply read the book aloud, The Lorax is a classic way to share an environmentalist message that's not too heavy - handed.

One of our strategies that can be used to develop positive classrooms features six steps for easy implementation, including a read - aloud story (Wilson & Conyers, 2011, p. 243).

I find that the feature on this extension that allows students to highlight text and have it read aloud is incredibly helpful for students with reading - based learning disabilities in accessing the general education curriculum and other materials that may be above the reading level they are able to decode on their own.

First - grade teacher Jodi Southard's newsletter features a QR code linked to a recording of her reading the publication aloud.

Create a structured routine where students write and read aloud news reports that exclusively feature noble deeds they have witnessed on campus.

Splash features interactive read - alouds by world - renowned educator and author, Jill Eggleton.

TFK Digital is just like TIME For Kids print magazine and engages students more deeply with the content using digital features like audio read - aloud, Spanish translations, power vocabulary words, alternate reading levels and paired texts.

This video is part of the «Behind the Practice» series and is also a companion to the two - part video series Close Read - Aloud in the Primary Grades, which features Sara and her students in action.

The materials kit also features nine beautifully illustrated read - aloud books, one for each unit.

She gives concrete suggestions on how early educators can choose fruitful books to read aloud, encourage reflection, use familiar books to teach text features, bring ELLs» home language into reading instruction, and look for indicators of emerging readers» comprehension skills.