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Microsoft's Immersive Reader helps you read more effectively

Microsoft's Immersive Reader is a little-known learning tool introduced earlier this year that aims to improve users' reading skills How to improve your reading skills and speed with learning tools for OneNote How to improve your reading skills and speed with Learning Tools for OneNote Is Learning Tools for OneNote a part of your education? The free add-on for OneNote helps everyone improve reading and writing skills, including students with learning differences or gifted learners. Read More As the app continues to become available in more programs and in more languages, we wanted to provide a breakdown of exactly what it does.

What is immersive reader?

Immersive Reader enhances your experience with Microsoft products with the goal of improving reading fluency, comprehension, word recognition, and focus. It does this by reading the text aloud using text-to-speech technology and highlighting verbs, nouns, and adjectives in different colors so you can better understand how each sentence is broken down.

Microsoft provides the following list of ways Immersive Reader can help Windows users:

  • Read aloud - Read text aloud with simultaneous highlighting that improves decoding, fluency, and comprehension while keeping the reader's focus and attention.
  • Spacing - Optimizes the spacing between fonts in a narrow column view to improve reading fluency for users suffering from crowding issues.
  • Syllables - Shows the breaks between syllables to improve word recognition and decoding.
  • Parts of speech - Supports writing instruction and grammatical comprehension by identifying verbs, nouns, and adjectives.

It is available in nearly 30 languages, including Arabic, English, French, German, and Spanish. The languages ​​that will be available later this summer are Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Brazilian Portuguese.

How can you use it?

At this time, Immersive Reader is available to use in the following programs:

  • Microsoft Edge
  • Office lens for iPhone
  • OneNote Desktop (as a plug-in)
  • OneNoteOnline
  • Outlook Web
  • Word Desktop
  • Word inline

You can play with the tool online before using it in the programs where it is available. The Try It Now online tool will guide you through the available features.

Microsoft s Immersive Reader helps you read more effectively

Here's how to use it:

  • Word 2016 &Online - Go View> Reading mode . La interfaz cambiará con solo tres elementos del menú:Archivo, Herramientas y Ver. Las herramientas de Immersive Reader están bajo Ver . Puede resaltar sílabas, hacer que el texto se lea en voz alta y ajustar el espaciado del texto.
  • OneNote Online - Ve a la Ver pestaña y haga clic Lector Inmersivo . Tendrá las mismas características que se pueden ver en la herramienta Probar ahora.
  • OneNote Desktop - Después de instalar el complemento, haga clic en Lector Inmersivo , y tendrá las mismas características que se pueden ver en la herramienta Pruébelo ahora.

¿Qué opinas de la herramienta Microsoft Immersive Reader? ¿Qué otras herramientas útiles de lectura, escritura y comprensión encuentras útiles para usar en línea? Let us know in the comments.