Episode 29: Tips for Translating on the Fly

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.Timestamps0:00 Intro1:10 Snap & ReadOptical Character Recognition (OCR)Take a photo of text to have it read aloudTranslate text found using OCRText-to-speech, translation, and text-replacement in Safari5:05 Google TranslateUse the camera to translate print text live5:55 Conversation mode in Google TranslateOne on one translating between two peopleFast & easy to openCan be slow to translate7:12 Microsoft TranslatorConversation mode with multiple devicesEnglish is shown along with translated textMultiple languages available in the same sessionOpen a session on your phone so you can move around10:30 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 text12:35 Anyone remember "app smashing?" Anyone?13:20 AI tools can be used to do quick translation