Special Education Hearing

For young learners who are hard of hearing, have hearing loss, or have deafness:

• explore specialized features in Windows 10 and Office 365 that can provide solutions, including closed captioning and live call transcription.
• access audio content in several ways depending on equipment available at home or personal preferences :
• wear hearing aids and utilize the computer’s speakers
• connect hearing aids using Bluetooth or other devices
• wear headphones over hearing aids
• elect to remove the hearing aids and wear headphones alone

Check out tutorials with this YouTube:  

Make Captioning Easy with Microsoft – At a Glance

https://youtu.be/HlgarRlDY08

Check out complete guide for people who are deaf or hard of hearing

Guide for people who are deaf or hard of hearing

• IT Admin deployment? Click here for further support.

Microsoft Translator 

Microsoft Translator is a free, personal translation app for more than 70 languages, to translate text, voice, conversations, camera photos and screenshots. You can also download languages for offline translation for free to use when you travel.

Complete multiple tasks with one app:

• Text translation into over 70 languages
• Camera translation
• Voice translation
• Multi-person conversation translation
• Phrasebooks for verified translations and pronunciation guides
• Look up alternate translations and meanings of a word
• Download languages for offline use
• Hear your translated phrase out loud
• View transliterations (pronunciation guides)
• Share your translations with other apps
• Pin and save your most frequent translations
• Translate text in other apps through context menu translation

Check out tutorials with this YouTube:

Microsoft Translator for Education: Communicate with Students

https://youtu.be/xWIiS_12wqQ

Check out complete how Microsoft Translator works

https://translator.microsoft.com/

• IT Admin deployment? Click here for further support.

Microsoft Stream

Captions and Transcripts in Microsoft Stream

Microsoft Stream is part of Office365. It is a video hosting platform. Once you upload a video, Stream will use AI that allows you to auto-generate captions and a transcript for young learners’ Stream videos. In addition, it also has an editor that allows young learners to edit the captions as well.

Check out the guide to live captions in Microsoft Stream:

Generate automatic captions and a transcript for your Microsoft Stream videos.

For more details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/portal-autogenerate-captions

• IT Admin deployment? Click here for further support.

Microsoft Teams

Live captions in a Teams meeting

Turn on real time captions during meetings so young learners can follow along during lessons and discussions.

However, when using captions it is important to:

• speak clearly, slowly, and directly into the microphone
• set appropriate distance from the microphone so captions will become more accurate.
• avoid locations with background noise
• avoid having multiple people speak at the same time.
• set classroom expectations around discussions so that captions can record accurately

Check out guide to live captions in Ms Teams:                                               

Use live captions in a Teams meeting

Check out tutorials with this YouTube:

Microsoft Teams – Live Captioning in Teams Meetings

https://youtu.be/iNRfuzHW5vw

• IT Admin deployment? Click here for further support.

Microsoft PowerPoint

Use Live Captions and Subtitles in PowerPoint

Use PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 to help accommodate young learners in the audience who may be deaf or hard of hearing, or more familiar with another language.

PowerPoint can transcribe the words as you present and display them on-screen as captions in the same language you are speaking, or as subtitles translated to another language.

Check out tutorials with this YouTube:

Make your presentations more inclusive with live captions and subtitles in PowerPoint

https://youtu.be/jhY9MrAStQo

For more details:                                                                                                      

Present with real-time, automatic captions or subtitles in PowerPoint

• IT Admin deployment? Click here for further support.