Audio Exam Player vs Snap&Read Universal

Audio Exam Player gives students a superior way of independently hearing test questions read aloud with human speech or with mechanical speech. Students who had refused read aloud testing accommodations because of the unwanted attention are eagerly taking their exams using this app. Now, without leaving their desks they are downloading their exams, putting earbuds in, and completing exams at the same time as their classmates. Students are improving test performance because they are focusing on test questions and their answers to those questions instead of having to focus their attention on sounding out words. With improved question comprehension, test results reflect what the student knows about the subject, and test scores are way up. FEATURES * KEEP STUDENTS IN THEIR CLASSROOM Eliminate the time and energy required to get students together with a reader because the reader will broadcast the exam from a remote location and students will download the exam at their desks. * AVOID UNWANTED ATTENTION Students no longer have the distraction and embarrassment caused by leaving the classroom or caused by the presence of a reader during testing. * IMPROVE TEST PERFORMANCE Students whose reading is slow or labored found that since they don't have to think about sounding out words, they concentrate all their attention on what the test is asking and how they will answer questions. With the options to speed up the playback, skip questions, reread questions, and play questions at will, students make better use of their time and don’t have the distractions and difficulties caused by a teacher reading to them directly. Now, they show what they know, and their test scores are greatly improved. * LEARN INDEPENDENCE AND SAVE TIME Students independently play, replay, and skip questions with a tap instead of having to wait for a teacher to read and reread questions. They increase the playback speed of the questions and decrease the time spent reading questions. Students finish exams at the same time as their classmates. * HEAR A FAMILIAR VOICE Students new to read aloud testing can hear a familiar voice since audio exams will be recorded with their teacher’s version of this app, Audio Exam Creator (Available on the App Store). * LEARN TO USE THE APP IN MINUTES The app is intuitive and simple to use. In one to two minutes students are shown how it works. They download their first exam and take the exam on their own. * USE ADVANCED FEATURES Features are easily recognized or discovered, play questions in any order with a tap, replay, continuous play, skip questions with a tap, rewind and fast-forward in three-second intervals, adjust speed control for fast playback, etc. * IMPROVE COMPREHENSION This read-aloud testing accommodation lets students focus on the subject rather than focusing on sounding out words. The option of increasing the playback speed will result in improved understanding of the questions and allow more time for the students to process the questions and formulate the best answers. * PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE Students started using this app with easy to understand human speech, and before they were required to use mechanical speech for standardized testing, they transition to mechanical speech within the app. They learn to use and understand mechanical speech using Apple's built-in screen reader VoiceOver which lets them also read all text on Macs and iOS devices.

Snap&Read Universal reads both accessible and inaccessible text aloud from websites, images, photographs, PDFs, and more. Snap&Read also adjusts complex text to be more readable, and can translate text into over 100 languages. You can even take a picture and have the text within that picture read aloud. Snap&Read has both an App (for reading aloud, translating, simplifying, and annotating PDFs and Images) and a Safari extension (for reading, simplifying, and translating websites). If difficult vocabulary is too challenging, Snap&Read can dynamically level the text. Essentially, Snap&Read will pick out the difficult words/phrases and swap them out for easier to comprehend vocabulary/phrases. To see the original word, just tap on it to toggle between the original word and the simplified word. THIS... "The Time Traveller was expounding a recondite matter to us." BECOMES... "The Time Traveller was explaining​ a unknown​ matter to us." Finally, if you have paper, magazine, book, etc... you can use the Camera feature to take a picture and read. If you’re on the go and don’t want to bring your books… you can save the images to your picture library and access them all later right from the Snap&Read App even if you have no internet connection.