Listen To Course Instructions

Most modern devices allow us to provide an audio version of our courses through text-to-speech accessibility technology.
Please keep in mind the audio created by these tools is machine-generated, so some words or phrases might be incorrectly pronounced (for example, the initials in our credentials can be funny to hear.) We have very little control over the generation process & final output of the audio.

Here are step-by-step instructions for you to follow based on how you are accessing our courses.

On Your Computer

Windows computers come with the Microsoft Edge browser pre-installed. We recommend using the Edge browser for the easiest access.
If you prefer to use Google Chrome browser instead, please click here to follow those instructions.

To use Microsoft Edge browser

• First, you can access your purchased courses through the My Courses tab inside of your account.
• Click on the course you would like to access. You will be taken to the Syllabus page, where you can click on the first part of your course “Read the Course”.

• When viewing the course, if you scroll down the page there is a button to “View The Course in Full Screen”. Click on that button to open up the course in a new tab.

• With the course in full screen, you should see some buttons across the top of the screen for various tools. Look for the one that looks like the letter “A” with some sound waves coming off of it. This is the button to have the course read aloud for you. Click on that button.

To use Google Chrome browser

• First, you can access your purchased courses through the My Courses tab inside of your account.
• Click on the course you would like to access. You will be taken to the Syllabus page, where you can click on the first part of your course “Read the Course”.

• When viewing the course, if you scroll down the page there is a button to “View The Course in Full Screen”. Click on that button to open up the course in a new tab.

• With the course opened in full screen, we need to highlight all of the content on the page. The easiest way to do this is to hold down the Control key (CTRL) and press the letter “A”. This should highlight all text on the page.
• With all of the text highlighted, right click on the text to open a menu. You should now see an option for “Reading Mode”. Please click on that.

• Reading Mode opens a new section inside of the window with all of the text from the course & controls to play the audio.

On Your Phone or Mobile Device

Built-In Options

For iPhone / iOS users, there is a built-in accessibility feature that can read any PDF aloud for you.

• Go to Settings > Accessibility > Read & Speak.
• Turn on “Speak Screen.” Now you can swipe down with two fingers to have your screen contents read aloud to you.
• Then, you can access your purchased courses through the My Courses tab inside of your account.
• Click on the course you would like to access. You will be taken to the Syllabus page, where you can click on the first part of your course “Read the Course”.
• Look for the button towards the bottom of the page to “View Course in Full Screen”.
• With the course opened in full screen, swipe down with two fingers to have the course read aloud.

For Android users, there are 2 built-in accessibility options for you:

• The Google Play Books app includes a native Read Aloud feature.
  • First, you can access your purchased courses through the My Courses tab inside of your account.
  • Click on the course you would like to access. You will be taken to the Syllabus page, where you can click on the first part of your course “Read the Course”.
  • When you can see the course PDF, look in the top right corner of that window for a Download button (it looks like an downward arrow pointing towards a line).

• • Once you have downloaded the PDF, open the Google Play Books app.
  • Once you have the PDF open in Google Play Books, you can click the three dots in the top right corner to open the menu & click on the “Read Aloud” option to start playing.

• Android has a “Select to Speak” feature.
  • First, you will need to enable the feature by going to Settings > Accessibility.
  • Once enabled, you can access your purchased courses through the My Courses tab inside of your account.
  • Click on the course you would like to access. You will be taken to the Syllabus page, where you can click on the first part of your course “Read the Course”.
  • Towards the bottom of the page you should see a “View Course in Full Screen” button. Click on that to open the PDF in full screen.
  • With the PDF open, press on a word for a long time & you should see a small menu pop up. Then you can let go & press the option to “Select All”. This should highlight all of the text in the course.
  • Now you can tap on the highlighted text to have it read aloud.

Third-Party Apps

If you would prefer to use a separate app, there are a few apps that can generate audio for you:

• Microsoft Edge browser
  • This will work similarly to the instructions provided above for Desktop computers.
• Adobe Acrobat (free version)
  • This will work similarly to the instructions provided for Google Play Books app.