Get your iPhone to read to you

Your iPhone/iPad can read text aloud to you in English and a variety of other European languages to help you to learn/revise poetry, quotes, definitions, synopsis and other notes/teaching/learning materials. Check out our two videos below showing how to get your iPhone/iPad to:

read text from digital text
read from hard copies of text in English and other European languages.

Getting your iPhone/iPad to read from DIGITAL text

Students can use tools built into their iPhone/iPad to get websites, electronic text and notes shared by teachers online read that text aloud to them. Be sure to use some of these tools to read new languages to students to help prepare for their oral and aural exams too.

If your school shares learning materials with students online get students to access these texts on their phones and get the phone to read them aloud.

This video will take you through how to use Speak Selection and Speak Screen on your iPhone/iPad to read electronic text aloud to you:

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Check out our resources to support teachers in sharing learning materials online in this section of our course:
When teachers share their excellent teaching/learning materials digitally with students, the students can use these excellent reading tools on their phones to learn and revise.

Getting your iPhone/iPad to read from a HARD COPY OF TEXT

Students can install an app on their iPhone/iPad to allow them to point the camera of their device at a textbook and their phones will read that text aloud to them. These apps can also scan a page from a textbook, and convert it to readable text for larger volumes of reading.

Seeing AI

This video will take you through how to use Seeing AI on your iPhone/iPad to read from hard copies of text aloud to you:

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Those with iPhones/iPads can download Seeing AI to their device for free from this link:	Download Seeing AI Links to an external site.

Google Lens

This video will walk you through how to use Google Lens on your iPhone or iPad.

Google Lens will let you scan handwritten or printed notes and save them digitally.

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Video created by Daragh O Laoire
Students and teachers who use iPhones/iPads can download Google Lens from this link:	Download Google Lens for iOS Links to an external site.

Office Lens

This video will walk you through how to use Office Lens on your iPhone or iPad.

Office Lens can be used to scan handwritten, printed or whiteboard notes.

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Video created by Daragh O Laoire
Students and teachers who use iPhones/iPads can download Office Lens from this link:	Download Office Lens for iOS Links to an external site.