ReadSpeaker: Listen to Course content in Canvas!

ReadSpeaker provides text-to-speech tools so you may listen to files or text in your online class. Two tools are provided! webReader for reading pages in Canvas, and docReader for reading files you click to open in Canvas.

webReader

Activate ReadSpeaker’s webReader tool by clicking the icon to listen to content found in Online Learning. It is located on the left side of your screen.

Expand webReader’s menu to locate options like Click and Listen!

docReader

ReadSpeaker’s docReader tool becomes active after clicking on ReadSpeaker’s webReader icon in a course.

Look out for the blue icon at the end of file links!
Clicking the docReader icon opens a preview of the file with numerous tools to listen and read it through your web browser.

Supported Document Formats:

Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, and Excel spreadsheets.
PDF.
Rich Text Format.
ePub digital ebooks.
Apache OpenOffice / LibreOffice presentation, spreadsheet, and documents.