Your Android phone/tablet can read text aloud to you in English and a variety of other European languages to help you learn/revise poetry, quotes, definitions, synopsis and other notes/teaching/learning materials.

Check out our two videos below showing how to get your Android phone/tablet to:

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

Getting your phone/tablet to read from DIGITAL text

Students can use tools built into their Android phones/tablets to get websites, electronic text and notes shared by teachers online to 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 Select to Speak on your Android phone/tablet 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 phone/tablet to read from a HARD COPY OF TEXT

Students can install apps on their Android phones/tablets to use the phones (or tablets) to point their cameras 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.

This video will take you through how to use Claro ScanPen and LookOut on your Android phone/tablet to read from hard copies of text aloud to you:

**Download the apps**
Note: Be sure to get Claro Scanpen to read text aloud in French, German, Italian and other European languages.
Students and teachers who use Android phones/tablets can download Claro Scanpen from this link:	Download Claro ScanPen
Those with Android phones/tablets (Android 6+ with 2 GB RAM) can download LookOut to their device for free from this link:	Download LookOut

Google Reading Mode

This video will take you through how to use Google Reading Mode on your Android device.

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Students and teachers who use Android phones/tablets can download Google Reading Mode from this link:	Download Google Reading Mode

Google Lens

This video will walk you through how to use Google Lens on your Android phone or tablet.

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 Android phones/tablets can download Google Lens from this link:	Download Google Lens for Android

Office Lens

This video will walk you through how to use Office Lens on your Android phone or tablet.

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 Android phones/tablets can download Office Lens from this link:	Download Office Lens for Android