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Read&Write is a literacy support tool that offers help with everyday tasks like reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments and proofing written work.
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What is Read&Write?
Read&Write is a set of reading and writing tools that helps anyone who struggles with digital text to excel and achieve more.
In education - Read&Write is a literacy support tool that helps students read, write, understand and express themselves. Giving them choice in how they access and engage with content and helping to improve their reading and comprehension skills. It helps to create independent learners - tools in Read&Write such as highlighters, voicenotes, vocab tools, audiomaker help students to study smarter, more independently and to a high standard. Specific accessibility tools alongside the reading and writing tools, help to create a level playing field for ELL students or those in Special Education.
In the workplace - Read&Write helps to unlock the power of people in businesses. Read&Write supports neurodivergent employees, multi-lingual teams, and anyone who might find everyday literacy tasks a challenge. It's a suite of reading and writing tools to empower all employees to think, learn and work to their full potential. By supporting the whole workforce and aligning with ESG goals, Read&Write advances Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - helping users to attract and retain diverse talent.
In education - Read&Write is a literacy support tool that helps students read, write, understand and express themselves. Giving them choice in how they access and engage with content and helping to improve their reading and comprehension skills. It helps to create independent learners - tools in Read&Write such as highlighters, voicenotes, vocab tools, audiomaker help students to study smarter, more independently and to a high standard. Specific accessibility tools alongside the reading and writing tools, help to create a level playing field for ELL students or those in Special Education.
In the workplace - Read&Write helps to unlock the power of people in businesses. Read&Write supports neurodivergent employees, multi-lingual teams, and anyone who might find everyday literacy tasks a challenge. It's a suite of reading and writing tools to empower all employees to think, learn and work to their full potential. By supporting the whole workforce and aligning with ESG goals, Read&Write advances Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - helping users to attract and retain diverse talent.
Read&Write Features
Writing and Proofreading Features
- Supported: Spelling and grammar check
- Supported: Machine translation
- Supported: Integrations
- Supported: Browser extension
- Supported: Text-to-Speech
- Supported: Speech-to-Text
- Supported: Screen masking
- Supported: Picture Dictionary
- Supported: Dictionary
- Supported: Highlighters
- Supported: Audio maker
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Read&Write Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Languages | English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch |
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Read&Write is a literacy support tool that offers help with everyday tasks like reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments and proofing written work.
Reviewers rate Highlighters highest, with a score of 8.2.
The most common users of Read&Write are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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May 02, 2024
Helpful, wonderful software
I use Read&Write myself and I set it up on my students' laptops too. Many of our students have dyslexia, ADHD, ADD etc which can make educational things harder. Read&Write offers so many adaptable learning strategies and my students have given incredibly positive feedback with how it helps them. The features that are highly used are the dictionary, and picture dictionary, the highlighters, and the computer reading options. Many of my students find the screen masking option incredibly helpful in lessons or doing work at home. We have about 30-50 students using this software so far and we hope more students will be able to use it next year.
- Allows easy access to things like dictionary and picture dictionary, so students are able to quickly find meanings of words out instead of asking the teacher which some people struggle to do or find it embarrassing.
- Students are able to use the read aloud setting in classes with using headphones. This has helped increase focus for some students and also has helped them keep up with the speed of the class.
- The highlighter part of Read&Write has been really useful for revision purposes and for students to whittle down large chunks of text. Leaving the student less overwhelmed which is amazing.
- The talk to type feature lags and sometimes does not hear large chunks of sentences which becomes difficult to edit and remember what you were saying.
- The screenshot reader sometimes doesn't work too well. Especially if the words are from a table or diagram.
- I think it would work better if you were able to just highlight words or sentences and then click the Play button for it to be read aloud instead of having to use a PDF or starting from the very top of the page, especially when students just need one or two words read out.
May 02, 2024
Great intuitive software
I use it to proofread things back, to gather highlights from different documents. I’m neurodivergent so often make mistakes.
- Text to voice
- Gathering highlights
- Easy to use
- A help button (couldn’t find one)
May 01, 2024
Read&Write for students
We use Read&Write as an assitive technology option for staff and students. It is available across all networked computers. it was obtained specifically to support students with SpLDs, in particular it is used by students in exams in place of a human reader. However it ia also useful for students where english is a second language.
- provides an easy option or students who require specific adjustments to things like screen colour, font size etc
- allows easier access to long academic documents.
- makes online reseacrh easier
- I'd like to be able to see how many of our students are using the software
We have been using the Read&Write app for years at the school and works very well. Now that we've moved over to Chromebooks we use the Read&Write/ Orbitnote Extension and this equally works very well. The click to speak feature is a lot easier to use and quicker than the drag to speak feature. Always receive regular emails with any product updates which is helpful. The Orbit Note app is very easy to use and allows students to open PDF's from Google Shared Drives which is also very useful.
- Click to Speak - allows students to use the text to speech element
- Orbit Note app works very well on the Chromebooks
- The settings are easy for the students to adjust the pitch, speed and other aspects of the voices
- The Read&Write toolbar doesn't appear to be fully compatible with touchscreen - would be nice to see that improved
April 30, 2024
Powerful software that provides for everyone
We use Read&Write to assist students of all abilities improve their writing and ability to understand complex passages of text.<br>In addition to this we use it during our exams as a scribe for students who require one.<br>The colour overlays also prove very useful for students who suffer with dyslexia.
- Reading back text
- Reviewing PDF documents
- Spell checking
- Universal compatibility across devices/OS's
- Updating itself
April 29, 2024
Read & Write - Fantastic Product!
Deployed to all Students Chromebook 1:1 devices - assists students with a range of SEN needs. We also promote it as part of our Year 7 information evening and ensure parents/students have access on devices at home as well as in school. There is a series of short sessions when they join in Year 7 on how to get the most out of the functionality.
- Screen Reader
- Colour Tints
- Dyslexia Support
- Different voices on Screen Reader
April 29, 2024
Read&Write is improving equitable access!
This product helps our organization provide equitable services and aligns with our vision for Universal Design for Learning. We provide all students with access to Read&Write for Google in the district. This has been a great tool for all students including students receiving special education, English Language Learners, and most other students.
- The screen reading tool is most valuable
- Word prediction is great for kids with limited spelling
- The picture dictionary is used by staff to create visual schedules
- The highlighters are used by our high school students as a study tool
- Make the iPad use more seamless
- Include Orbitnote in Read&Write
- One pagers for teachers would be helpful
April 29, 2024
Read&Write ensures a level playing field
Many students across our school use Read&Write. They may be dyslexic, they may be slower at processing text or require their screen to be an alternative colour. We have 90 exam laptops that all have Read&Write on for when students with Access Arrangements are completing their exams. The students find that the use of Read&Write dramatically improves their grade as they can listen to the questions carefully and repeat them as many times as need be. They can change the speed of the voice as well as the sound of the voice so they can really tailor it towards themself. As per school policy, all PCs across our network have Read&Write installed and all Google accounts have the extension pushed out to them. Therefore, Read&Write is accessible anytime and any place for any member of staff or student.
- Allows an equal playing field for all students of all abilities.
- Has the ability to scan documents in of any condition (OCR).
- Extremely customisable, (voices, colours, speeds etc.).
- Exam mode is amazing.
- You can only open PDF reader for a maximum of two documents at a time.
- Documents over 30 pages struggle to scan sometimes and cause the program to crash.
- Struggles to read the periodic table.
April 29, 2024
Read&Write is a great tool to support all learners
We use this across our multi academy trust to support literacy and SEND. This is around 22500 students and 3000 staff. I promote the tool and do training on it for our schools. The key for us is around access to learning. Personally I mainly use the read to me tool when my eyes are tired from the screen.
- Helping to break down words using the dictionaries
- Read to me tool
- Speech to text with the ability to speak in different languages
- Screen mask tool for a whole screen colour or a reading line
- A more human sounding reading tool would be benefit that adapts to certain words better
- Some definitions are not always totally correct and perhaps could benefit from community feedback
- The Google search tool would be better if it kept you in the document rather than opening Google
April 29, 2024
Enhancing Learning and Literacy Experiences
As a Special Educational Needs School with many pupils with literacy difficulties, Read&Write is invaluable. We have pupils with severe Dyslexia and the program allows for greater independence in the classroom. We had a problem with support when pupils were doing their GCSEs as a reader and scribe would be required, Read&Write enables the pupil to sit alone in the exam.
- Speech recognition - pupils rely less on additional staff to support writing activities in the classroom.
- Text read aloud - this is ideal in the classroom as again, teaching assistants are not required to sit beside the pupil to read text.
- Proofreading - I use this tool when submitting large documents as I can hear errors when the work is read aloud. Being dyslexic myself, I can not always spot mistakes.
- The speech-to-text could be improved as when the class is busy words are missed. At times words have to be repeated and this can cause frustration amongst our pupils. My hope with further advancements in AI this will improve.
April 29, 2024
Read&Write Review
Our main use is for students with required needs for exams. These students are able to access the software through their Chromebook throughout an academic year and therefore are capable with the software when it comes to exams.
- Reading Text at a pace suitable for the user
- Compatible will all devices in our school
- Very easy for us as ICT support to install site wide
- The loading time of the software sometimes can be a little slow
April 23, 2024
Read&Write for Google is great!
Our school district uses Read&Write in grades 3-12 for all students. We have a subscription that includes Read&Write, Orbit Note, and Equatio and they are all valuable tools. Our special education students benefit from all of the features and rely on many of them to keep up with their peers. Our regular education students report that they love the check it tool as well as the note taking features.
- Checks grammar and spelling
- text to speech feature
- speech to text feature
- highlighting tools
- screen masking
- The Check it tool is not always accurate and often makes recommendations that are not helpful like underlining half of a word or suggesting capitalization when it's not indicated.
- The students would love human voices for text to speech
- It would be helpful for the highlighting tools to collect on the same document from multiple articles/web pages instead of making a new Google Doc for each page with highlights.
April 18, 2024
Read&Write Review
Since I work at a district school board, Read&Write is primarily used as a Tier 1 education support as well as a Tier 3 support for individuals with learning disabilities that have difficulty reading and writing in the traditional sense. Since we have a district-wide license, all students and staff have access to both Read&Write and OrbitNote which has greatly helped to reduce the stigma of assistive technology usage that is often a barrier for those who rely upon AT to be successful at school.
- Read&Write works well with Word in Office 365 (we are a Microsoft board)
- Read&Write is excellent in the speech to text and text to speech areas.
- We love the prediction tool, especially for users whop are apprehensive to dictate yet still require spelling support.
- We love the collect highlights feature, especially when we are researching a webpage in order to write a research paper.
- We love the summarize tool!
- One main thing that I think could be improved is reducing the lag time when using text-to-speech tools. Even when our laptops are up-to-date and firmware is also up-to-date, I find that there is a significant lag time between selecting text to be read using text-to-speech and the tool actually "speaking". In some cases it has been 15 more more seconds, and this has "lost" some students that I have worked with. This is similar with the lag time experienced between dictating and words actually showing up on the screen when using the Talk&Type feature. Again, I feel that these tools are great and we are happy to have them, but I have found that the lag time is often a barrier to usage for some of our students and even staff.
- It would be so lovely if voice notes were available for Microsoft users with the R&W Chrome extension.
- I also think that it would be great if highlights could be collected across several websites, etc. into the same "collect highlights" document.
April 18, 2024
Read&Write is a gamechanger for students
Read&Write is our primary literacy software. Our business is higher education and this software addresses our needs in terms of providing TTS and study tools for our students. We also recommend it as a speech recognition option for those not using Windows 11 and MacOS. Our user base is mostly students with disabilities but have seen uptake by our some of our international student population and non-disabled students.
- Text-to-speech
- study tools (highlights and collecting highlights
- scanning and OCR (scan feature and screenshot reader
- Voices for Windows (more natural)
- Speech Recognition is hit and miss
- Spell Check is in need of a bit of an update to bring it up to par with Grammarly
April 17, 2024
Support All Our Students
We use Read&Write across our school board to support all our teachers and students. We encourage whole classroom use of the tool to support literacy development. We also subscribe to Orbitnote and Equatio.
- Word prediction
- Speech to text in English
- The highlighting tools!!
- Picture dictionary
- word prediction in French
- I would love to see the ability to have multiple highlights from various webpages merge onto one Google doc
April 17, 2024
Rural K-12 District Review
I work for a K-12 school district as a Technology Integration Specialist. Our K-12 students and staff have access to the Read&Write toolbar, and use a variety of the tools for different purposes based on the need and the age of the child.
- Voice to text
- Reads text aloud
- Screen masking
- Simplifies screen
- Provides dictionaries (pictures & word definitions)
- Hover speech
- Word prediction - we have to have a separate subscription for Co:Writer to get the enhanced features
April 17, 2024
Read&Write and how it supports LD users
I teach at a private school for students with learning disabilities. Read&Write allows us to offer a variety of assistive technology tools to our students as well as give teachers and adults the ability to do our own work more efficiently.
- text-to-speech is great. lots of options for voices and speed
- gives both word prediction and talk&type as writing supports
- the fact that it is a toolbar that can be used in native programs is huge for our students because it allows them to be independent in their learning activities
- Read&Write is very intuitive and requires very little training for the text-to-speech tools so it is very easy to train students and staff
- I wish the Check It tool was available on the web (only in GDocs currently)
- I wish the highlighter/collect highlights would collect citation information (kind of a combination of MyBib and highlighters)
- One weird thing with the Reading tools (text-to-speech) is that if you are zoomed in to FIT on a GDoc it does glitchy stuff (skipping or not displaying) vs when you are at 100% zoom
- why isn't Rewordify in Read&Write in a Google Doc? only on web version? Same for Simplify text tool.
April 17, 2024
Read&Write an easy to use UDL solution
Read&Write is our district wide accessibility solution. The product works for us for testing accomodations and as a universal accessibility tool. Students also benefit from the dictionary and vocabulary tools as well as the ability to collect highlights.
- Text to speech
- speech to text
- data desk for testing
- study skills (collect highlights)
- we need more info on Windows PC Exam tools
- we wish the platform worked inside other platforms
- make equatio a part of the same tool
April 17, 2024
Read&Write for Education
I use Read&Write as an assistive technology in K-12 classrooms. It is a great equalizer for students who learn differently. It accommodates many different types of learners and is easy to use. The company is responsive to challenges faced by the software and is easy to contact. They truly aim to support their users!
- The reading tools are great.
- I love how the option for multiple languages supports new language learners.
- The picture dictionary is fantastic, extensive and meaningful.
- The word dictionary is too difficult and often doesn't lead to clarification of meaning.
- I would like to see a click to speak on the web toolbar rather than hover speech. Students sometimes have difficulty understanding the hover speech.
- An option in settings to combine the images from the picture dictionary with the translation tool.
- Having a Canadian dictionary, spelling and pronunciations would be great.
April 17, 2024
Read&Write 4GC is an invaluable Tool
We are an educational institution and we use the Read&Write 4GC tools with all of our staff and students to support literacy and numeracy.
- OrbitNote for PDF annotation
- Text-to-speech with customized settings
- rewordifying text on websites
- math tools
- I would like word prediction to be able to be set to default so that it opens automatically for certain students
- To be able to access the OrbitNote on iPads
- I don't like losing the option of the OCR tool with Snapverter-I like the use of the snapverter app with students
April 17, 2024
Longtime user of Read&Write
We use Read&Write to provide oral accommodations to students who would not otherwise have access to having their work read aloud. We are a tiny district and if the aide who normally reads tests aloud for students is pulled to cover a class or assist elsewhere, the teacher cannot leave the students in the classroom to go read in another location. Read&Write allows each student to have the level of reading support they need in real-time in their seat where they are most comfortable. It also allows students to receive help when they need the help, whether after school hours or in another classroom.
- Read aloud selections
- Read aloud papers that the student has generated
- provide highlights for important points
- I would like to see the read feature first in the line up. then the other options further down.
April 17, 2024
Read&Write for Education
We purchase Read&Write for all students and use it as an access support. We have students and teachers with a lot diversity with their needs and wants. The tools provided by Read&Write allow learners to pick what they need when they need it. We have worked to normalize these tools and ensure that they are not viewed as a tier two or three support, but for all.
- text to speech (like the settings with this)
- speech to text (sometimes it has issues, but seems to be getting better)
- Picture dictionary (love that these are click and drag)
- Please continue to improve translation tools, whole doc and read aloud
- Please keep improving speech to text...sometimes updates seem to make this tough
- Please continue to work on Orbit Note, this tool has had quite a few login issues
April 17, 2024
Read&Write for Education
I am a trainer for a school district. I train students and staff in the appropriate use of Read&Write. Depending on the needs I might focus on using speech to text and playback to write and edit simple sentences. Or, I might focus on using Read&Write online to do research more efficiently and take notes. Then we would use the tools to re-write the notes and possibly write the final version using prediction or speech to text. For staff I might demonstrate how to use Read&Write to create lesson plans and resources more quickly and efficiently while also having them support students who need to use Read&Write to access the curriculum.
- It is a game changer for working online and removing ads and simplifying pages.
- Having the ability to create user profiles for different languages is amazing
- The prediction tool along with the dictionaries/translation tool really help English Language Learners access the learning
- Speech to text and playback are a great combination for writing and editing documents efficiently
- Sometimes the tools are laggy. Especially the playback button. This causes students to stop using it.
- Whenever Google updates chrome, Read&Write tends to develop more glitches. It would be great if more open communication between TextHelp and Google was started to avoid the weeks of disruption to student learning
- The simplify page tool is often glitchy when used on online articles. This has been the case since a major Google upgrade about 18 months ago. About 50% of the time the article is not simplified...only the comments from the article appear on the simplified page.
April 17, 2024
Read&Write for Student Independence
I am the Assistive Technology Teacher. I use Read&Write for reading and writing with students that haved an IEP. LD, etc. We use the tools for reading, writing, research, presentations etc.
- Word Prediction
- Dictionary
- Simplify Page
- The voice to text can be tricky for students that do not have developed, age level speech.
- At times, word prediction varies in use depending on the application. Glitchy with Google Forms.
April 17, 2024
Read&Write supports both staff and students
Read&Write is used to provide universal design for learning for all students in my school district. In addition, for students who need more specialized support, such as word prediction or picture dictionary, the students and teachers have the support at their fingertips to explore and try to determine if the specialized support is required. School district staff and students easily navigate the tools. Customizations such as voice and speed adjustments make Read&Write a successful tool for a variety of needs.
- word prediction
- read aloud (web and google platforms)
- highlight collections
- vocab builder- enter the words individually rather than collecting highlighted words