Accessing any webpage with Capti

Capti Chrome Extension Overview:

• Access any webpage with text to speech (TTS) and text customization tools
• Promote student independence by giving them better access to the Web resources
• Improve your writing by listening to what you write in Google or Office 365 documents, or LMS

Our Google Chrome extension now gives you and your students the option to listen to web articles, Google Docs, and Office 365 documents. It expands Capti’s accessibility tools and text to speech to the entire Web, including most web based tests! And it benefits ALL learners!

Listening to their writing in Google Docs, Office 365, or any other web-based platform will allow your students to hear where they have used a wrong word in context, have a run-on sentence, etc. These types of errors are much easier to spot when listening to the text. Capti also helps to prevent reading fatigue and frustration.

It can also be difficult for students to keep their research organized. Bookmarks get lost, links stop working, and post-its get misplaced. With Capti Chrome extension, students can easily save snippets of information, or even whole web pages to their Capti playlist. This makes it easier for students to compile their research and keep it organized in the same convenient location with their other reading content, while having access to all their reading support tools.

Download the extension here or open your existing extension now to check out the new update! You can also check out our Help pages for more information about using the extension.

The importance of student independence:

• Instructors have more freedom to teach the class when students have their own independent supports
• Working independently builds student self-esteem and can lead to better academic outcomes
• Independence in the classroom leads to more self-motivation which carries over into the job market

You can use the Capti Chrome Extension player to proofread your work by listening with text-to-speech

Check out this suggested workflow for using Chrome extension to proofread documents:

1. Open up your writing project in Google Docs, Office 365, LMS, or a similar program.
2. Highlight the section of text you would like to edit and then press Alt+Q to open the Player. (You may be prompted to sign into your Capti Voice account, if so, sign in and repeat this step.)
3. The text you highlighted will appear in the Player. (You can now customize the font, size, and color scheme to make the text easier to read visually, or you can hide the text.)
4. Press play to listen to the text read to you by your preferred text-to-speech voice.
5. Go to step 2 to listen to any other portion of the text until you are satisfied with your work.

Key Takeaways:

• Listen to any text on the Web without leaving the webpage
• Proofread your work in web apps such as Google docs and Office 365
• Add snippets or full web articles to your Capti playlist to compile research
• Improve accessibility of most web-based tests and quizzes

Coming soon:

• New Reading Skill Assessments are coming in April! The Assessments will help you answer the question of why your students are struggling to read. It will measure your students’ reading abilities along 6 foundational skills: Decoding and Recoding, Vocabulary and semantic relationships, Morphological Awareness, Sentence Processing, Efficiency of Basic Reading Comprehension, and Reading Comprehension.
• You will be able to use Capti’s reference tools on any webpage. Capti will translate words and phrases into over 100 languages (26 of which include text-to-speech support), and you will be able to look up English language definitions. Both translations and definitions are context-sensitive, which takes into account the word’s part of speech, word form, and other factors.