Listen to academic texts
How to listen to text from webpages, PDF articles, and physical books.
This course is aimed at
- Students
- Doctoral student
- Researcher with a doctoral degree
Topic
- Computer and tools
About the course
Welcome to a workshop where you learn to use speech synthesis to listen to texts in a variety of formats.
Contents:
- When is it good to listen rather than read?
- Recent advances in speech synthesis
- Listen to webpages and PDFs with Microsoft Edge
- Listen to text in Word365
- Listen to physical books using Google Lens on your mobile phone
Prerequisites:
- Mac users: download and install the latest version of Microsoft Edge (free)
- Android smartphone users: download Google Lens (free)
- iPhone users: download the Google app (free)
- No previous knowledge of speech synthesis is required
