Students in Grades 3–8 Mastery and Grades K–8 Builder can use Text-to-Speech and Language Translation to access lesson content and reduce language barriers. Lessons in the Grades K–2 Mastery pathway include built-in narration and Spanish supports instead—see Language supports in Imagine+ Math for details.
Note
An educator must turn on Text-to-Speech and Language Translation in the Product Portal before students can use them. See Viewing, editing, and deleting student accounts.
Using the language tools
Select the tab that matches your students' pathway.
Students can find Text-to-Speech and Language Translation in the left menu panel.
To use Text-to-Speech:
- Click the headphones icon in the left menu panel to open the Text-to-Speech menu.
- Click Play to hear all text on the page, or highlight text first to hear only the selected text.
- (Optional) Choose Slow, Normal, or Fast to adjust the playback speed.
To use Language Translation:
- Click the globe icon in the left menu panel to open the Language menu.
- Select a language to translate the onscreen text.
- (Optional) If available, use Text-to-Speech to hear the translated text read aloud.
Note
Video audio is available in English and Spanish. Students can translate video captions and transcripts into more than 60 languages.
Students can find Text-to-Speech in the bottom-left corner and Language Translation in the top-right corner of the screen. In Grades K–5, some problems are automatically read aloud. When applicable, students can use Audio Support to hear the current problem again.
To replay audio instructions (Grades K–5 only):
Some problems include a speaker icon in the top-left corner of the page. Click the icon to hear the current problem read aloud.
To use Text-to-Speech:
Click the Play button in the bottom-left corner to hear all text on the page, or highlight text first to hear only the selected text.
To use Language Translation:
- Click the globe icon in the top-right corner of the screen to open the Language Translation menu.
- Select a language to translate the on-screen text or click More to view additional available languages.
Tip
Encourage students to use Language Translation when they are unsure about a term or phrase.
Available languages
Students can translate onscreen text into the languages below. An asterisk (*) marks languages that also support Text-to-Speech.
- Amharic
- Arabic*
- Armenian*
- Bengali*
- Bosnian
- Chinese (Mandarin)*
- Croatian*
- Czech*
- Danish*
- Dutch*
- Estonian
- Filipino*
- Finnish*
- French*
- German*
- Greek*
- Gujarati
- Haitian Creole
- Hebrew*
- Hindi*
- Hmong
- Hungarian*
- Indonesian*
- Italian*
- Japanese*
- Javanese
- Kazakh
- Korean*
- Kurdish
- Lao
- Latvian
- Lithuanian*
- Malayalam
- Maori
- Marathi
- Nepali
- Norwegian*
- Pashto
- Persian/Farsi*
- Polish*
- Portuguese*
- Punjabi*
- Romanian*
- Russian*
- Samoan
- Serbian*
- Shona
- Sinhala
- Slovak*
- Slovenian
- Somali
- Spanish*
- Swahili
- Swedish*
- Tamil
- Telugu*
- Thai*
- Turkish*
- Ukrainian*
- Urdu
- Vietnamese*
- Yoruba
Note
Once a student chooses a language, onscreen text stays translated whenever they return to the current pathway. Students must choose a language again after a learning-path update or at the start of a new school year.