As a language teacher, one feature that would significantly improve Kahoot for educational use would be built-in Text-to-Speech for question text.
Proposed Feature
Allow teachers to generate audio automatically from the question text using Text-to-Speech.
For example, instead of seeing the word Noir, pupils would hear it…
Built-in Text-to-Speech for question text would make Kahoot substantially more useful for language teaching, listening practice, literacy development and accessibility... Please VOTE ;-)
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Hello, thank you for your feedback. We have a similar feature, called Read Aloud. It’s available for free for all account types. Read aloud is a mobile app feature that can be enabled on player's device after joining a kahoot game. Once enabled, the app vocalizes the question first, then switches to the answer alternatives and reads them aloud. As each answer is read, it is visually highlighted on the screen. You can read more about it here: Read Aloud app feature
Thank you for your response. The Read Aloud feature is helpful for accessibility, but it is not the same as the feature I am suggesting.
My proposal is for teachers to be able to generate audio automatically from the question text during kahoot creation.
For language teachers, this would make it possible to create listening-comprehension activities instantly, without recording or uploading audio files.
Example:
This would be valuable not only for language learning, but also for literacy and accessibility.
Read Aloud is an accessibility feature.
What I would like to see is Kahoot go much further with Text-to-Speech.
I would love to see Text-to-Speech integrated directly into every field in Kahoot where creators can currently use text or images. For any question, answer, or slide text, the creator could choose:
• Display text only
• Text-to-Speech only
• Display text and Text-to-Speech
This would be extremely valuable for language learning, literacy development, accessibility, and early-years education.
For example, I may want pupils to hear the French word "noir" and select the correct answer, without seeing the written word. This helps develop listening and speaking skills before reading and writing.
Another related improvement would be greater control over audio playback. In listening activities, the replay button is currently too prominent. It would be useful if creators could make it smaller, as it takes up too much space on small screens at the expense of the quiz options.
These changes would make Kahoot much more powerful for language teachers while requiring very little extra work from content creators, since the text already exists within the kahoot.
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