Description

Beth and Holly get together to talk about how to use translation tools to make text more accessible to your students. Brian also makes an appearance.

Timestamps
0:00 Intro
1:10 Snap & Read

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
• Take a photo of text to have it read aloud
• Translate text found using OCR
• Text-to-speech, translation, and text-replacement in Safari

5:05 Google Translate

• Use the camera to translate print text live

5:55 Conversation mode in Google Translate

• One on one translating between two people
• Fast & easy to open
• Can be slow to translate

7:12 Microsoft Translator

• Conversation mode with multiple devices
• English is shown along with translated text
• Multiple languages available in the same session
• Open a session on your phone so you can move around

10:30 Immersive Reader in Canvas (and other places)

• Images included for words (hover to show)
• Does not display images!

12:00 First contact should be text, images should support the text
12:35 Anyone remember "app smashing?" Anyone?
13:20 AI tools can be used to do quick translation