Using Sound of Text site for language learning
Sound of Text allows you to enter up to 100 characters of text in one of 44 languages. Once you click Submit, the site generates audio of the word or phrase.
I have used Google Translate on my phone in the past to communicate with an ELL student, but this tool is for a different use case. Noah spells out several uses for the tool in the article.
Source: Google Search date range shortcut – Chrome Web Store If you use the search by time feature in Google search, then do I have an extension for you! The Google Search date range shortcut extension allows you to add your own custom search ranges to the Google Search Date tool. After installing the extension,…
Sure enough, 45 minutes into the 2016 WWDC keynote, Tim Cook—not an SVP, but Tim himself!—unveiled Swift Playgrounds for iPad, “a new way to learn to code.” Because I’d been thinking about it, I had my tweet ready: “I personally think a way to learn Swift is not what the iPad needs—it needs a 21st Century…
Available for Chrome and Firefox, Nimbus Screenshot (Nimbus Screen Capture under Firefox) is another option for capturing screen shots from your browser. There are several options on what can be captured: It also allows you to edit the screenshot much like Skitch: Once you are finished editing the screen shot, you can download the image…
Source: Animated GIF editor and GIF maker As I was preparing for my conference presentations, I needed a cropped animation. So, naturally, I started searching the web for some tools that would let me crop video and I came across ezGif. Not only can you create animated gifs, you can edit and crop video, add…
Source: Word Cloud Generator – Google Workspace Marketplace Here’s a cool add-on for Google Docs, Word Cloud Generator. Once added, you can create a word cloud of your document right inside of Google Docs. There are a few options, including removing words, but these are pretty limited.
Source: Transpose ▲▼ pitch ▹ speed ▹ loop for videos – Chrome Web Store Transpose ▲▼ pitch ▹ speed ▹ loop for videos is a cool extension if you use a lot of YouTube videos for learning. YouTube has speed controls, but this extension adds more control on to the videos.