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July 04, 2023

Episode 29: Tips for Translating on the Fly

15 minutes

Beth and Holly get together to talk about how to use translation tools to make text more accessible to your students. Brian also makes an appearance.

Timestamps
0:00 Intro
1:10 Snap & Read

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Take a photo of text to have it read aloud

Translate text found using OCR

Text-to-speech, translation, and text-replacement in Safari

5:05 Google Translate

Use the camera to translate print text live

5:55 Conversation mode in Google Translate

One on one translating between two people

Fast & easy to open

Can be slow to translate

7:12 Microsoft Translator

Conversation mode with multiple devices

English is shown along with translated text

Multiple languages available in the same session

Open a session on your phone so you can move around

10:30 Immersive Reader in Canvas (and other places)

Images included for words (hover to show)

Does not display images!

12:00 First contact should be text, images should support the text
12:35 Anyone remember "app smashing?" Anyone?
13:20 AI tools can be used to do quick translation

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By Elkhart Professional Development