Learning Tools for Onenote

(machine startup) (music) (Jeff Petty, Principal Pgrm. Mgr., Dev Platform, R&D) Today I'm going to show you a new product called Learning tool for OneNote. (Jeff Petty, Principal Pgrm. Mgr., Dev Platform, R&D) Over the next few minutes, (music) I will show you how learning tools help you author content (music) if you have difficulty spelling or using a keyboard. (music) Read, if you have low vision or a learning difference like dyslexia. (music) COMPUTER NARRATOR: The study of Earth's landforms is called physical geography. (music) And understand what you've read (music) by breaking complex words and sentences into smaller parts (music) I'm in OneNote on a Windows desktop with the Learning Tools add-in installed (Learning Tools for OneNote) Let's start with authoring content. (Learning Tools for OneNote) If you have severe spelling or mobility challenges using a keyboard can be a barrier to expressing yourself. We built a dictation feature that uses the same speech recognition that powers Cortana. Let me show you. I'm going to click on the dictate icon and I'm going to speak to author text. (beep) It's easy to write on a computer. (computer is dictating text) And dictation as punctuation for you. Now that you've authored content let me show you how Learning Tools make it easier to read. I'll launch the Immersive Reader from the ribbon by clicking the Immersive Reader icon. You can see right away how we make it easier to read content by using large fonts and high contrast. We also include the ability to highlight and voice text COMPUTER NARRATOR: The study of Earth's landforms is called physical geography. Highlighting and voicing text is called immersive because it uses two senses. This is a proven technique for helping people with dyslexia to decode text. It also helps if you are learning English or proofing long documents. More than just making it easier to read we've built capabilities that help you understand what you've read if you're reading something that you find challenging or reading a document with long complex words and sentences our immersive reading modes can help. Let me show you how it works. I'm in the Immersive Reader and note that there are some complex words like landforms, physical and geography. When I click on the books icon I get a bunch of different options. When I click on syllables It breaks all of the compound words into discrete syllables Which improves word recognition. I can turn it off with just a click Another way we aid understanding is with Comprehension Mode. When you speak with others you get verbal cues to help you understand what they are trying to convey. Some cues are not available in text. We added cues that are proven to improve comprehension. I'm going to click the comprehension option to change the text. I'm also going to resize the text so you can see exactly what's going on. We highlight the verbs and we bracket subordinate clauses In this, sentence if I asked you 'What was affected?' You would say 'Where people are able to live' Breaking sentences down into smaller units is proven to improve understanding These are a few highlights of the work we are doing to make it easier for everyone to read and write using Microsoft applications. OneNote and Learning Tools for OneNote are free. (music) You can start using Learning Tools today and give us your feedback (OneNote.com/LearningTools) (music) Thanks for watching (music) (music) Microsoft Mechanics (music) www.microsoft.com/mechanics (music)