Learning Tools Beta for Microsoft OneNote hope to help dyslexic students

Learning Tools Beta for Microsoft OneNote hope to help dyslexic students ,

Alongside editing Education Minecraft released today, the company also publishes a new set of features for OneNote called "learning tools."

Microsoft says the tool should be useful for people with dyslexia because it includes many different things to help reading: Text speaking aloud that the current word is highlighted, spacing letters to make them easier to follow, using a custom font called "Calibri Current" that Microsoft claims is easier to read and analyze two syllables or parts of sentences to clarify their sound and purpose.

Microsoft's new policy is designed to reduce "visual clutter" between the letters, although the company has not yet made formal studies if it is helpful for people with dyslexia. It seems that there is more research to do if custom fonts can be useful, although the length of the line and spacing are considered important. - both can be customized with new Microsoft tool Although Microsoft says that it has good reason to believe these improvements will enhance reading comprehension, we will need to await the actual studies before we can really tell if they are effective, much less as useful as the company hopes .

the natural language processing required to analyze the different parts of speech in a sentence is really happening at the local level on the machine so users never have to be connected to the Internet to take advantage. Users will be must be connected to the Internet to dictate in OneNote, for the dictation feature included in Learning Tools looks at Bing for converting speech to text.

Most of the tools that Microsoft included in learning Tools plugin has been available before, but not as one package. This package was created last year by a small team who won annual Hackathon Microsoft, but it is now available to the general public. You can find instructions to install it here - it is compatible with OneNote 2013 and 2016.