University of South Florida

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Read&Write Web Extensions

Read&Write Web Extensions

Read&Write (RW) software helps students achieve their academic goals by providing support tools for reading, writing, and research assignments. Wonderfully intuitive and easy-to-use, Read&Write for Web Browsers provides personalized support to make documents, web pages and common file types in Google Drive (including: Google Docs, PDF & ePub) more accessible. It’s designed to help everyone engage with digital content in a way that suits his/her abilities and learning styles.

Publisher: Texthelp

Eligible: | Faculty | Staff | Students |

Description

Read&Write offers a range of powerful support tools to help you gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, including:

• Text-to-speech to hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting

• Text and picture dictionaries to see the meaning of words explained

• With speech-to-text, dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading & studying

• Word prediction offers suggestions for the current or next word as you type

• Collect highlights from text in documents or the web for summarizing and research 

• Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs

• Simplify and summarize text on web pages to remove ads and other copy that can be distracting

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