Mote for Google Chrome™

Rickard Petersson Personal2024年9月3日

★★★★★5

Makes feedback fast and accessible with the translate and transcribe functions.

P G2024年7月27日

★★★★★5

This extension and its integration with other Google apps/tools has helped me give my students effective and personalized feedback for their day-to-day work. Children feel so excited to respond back using the audio mode of it. Thank you.

Kim Deirino2024年6月19日

★★★★★5

This extension has assisted my first additional language children to listen, repeat, and practise new vocabulary and written text without needing assistance from parents or caregivers; they have been empowered!

Sheri Massey2024年5月28日

★★★★★5

I love this extension. It's super easy to use and makes my content more accessible to students. I hope it continues to be free for educators.

Yoshi Yamauchi2024年4月21日

★★★★★5

In my school, or report card includes teacher comments for each subject we teach. If we have over 20 students and teach 4 subjects, those comments can easily start to add up... Mote saved HOURS of my time since I cannot type as fast as I can speak. It was a game changer for me and I don't think I can go back to my 50 wpm type speed to write hundreds of comments... I would highly recommend this if you are required to write SO MUCH. Wouldn't hurt to try it out for a week.

Mark De Vos2024年3月21日

★★★★★5

I spend a LOT of my time typing comments on documents: I supervise postgraduate students. I've explored a number of speech-to-text systems. Most of them fail when you use technical language in my field and generally become unusable for anything except generic colloquial language. Mote is the best I have found so far that does a good job of transcribing that manages the technical jargon of my field. It has really improved my productivity on providing detailed notes on documents. Another nice thing about Mote from a pedagogic perspective is that it presents my comments in two modes: an audio voice note and also a transcribed text. I find students respond very well to having both of these available. The voice note often conveys my supportive, friendly tone, suggestions, etc. The text version is available for them to reread and consider detail that I sometimes add by hand. Another great thing about Mote is that you can translate the text with a button click. I have a number of students whose first language is not English and it is useful for them to sometimes flip between the English and another language. There are a few things that I hope are integrated into the next version. Wish 1: Mote does a great job of transcribing what I say. But unfortunately, my exact words are often stream of conciousness, slightly disorganized, full of repetitions, ums and ahs (like any normal person's, especially when I am thinking on the fly). What I then have to do is to run a separate script to clean it up and rewrite the text transcription in proper English. It would be great if Mote had an option to "clean up" and "reorganize" the text version of the voice notes to present them in grammatical English while retaining the tone and jargon of the original. i.e. I want my original voice and then a cleaned up version of a transcript (I am not asking for the original voice note to be reengineered). Wish 2: When I put Motes in google docs (not in the comments) then it creates a URL to the voice Mote and inserts it into the google doc. Then I have to click on the link, get the text from Mote and cut-and-paste it into the Google doc. This is a hassle and so tend not to do this -- although I would (because Google Voice typing is just absolutely terrible). I think it would be great if Mote could put the text directly into the google document itself. Wish 3: Mote is still not great at names and acronyms (e.g. citations of journal articles or names of students -- some of whom have non-Anglo names and Mote isn't great at that). It also isn't good at producing names and homophones that have alternative spellings (e.g. Kelly, Keli, Cally, etc.) -- this is entirely understandable. I think it would be really good if I could define a list of common collocations, names, terms, acronyms that I use often in my work, then upload that onto my Mote page so that Mote can customize it's responses using those. Wish 4: I personally love using Google Docs and its my preferred medium of expression. But sometimes I do need to respond on a propietary document format such as MSword. In these cases, Mote exports from Google Doc as a link to audio in a comment and the original text is not displayed. I have to run a custom script to export the mote comments and reinsert them as text. It would be nice if there was an option to export the audio link as well as the transcribed text. Great tool, thank you!

Ignacio Castillo Acosta2024年3月20日

★★★★★5

Allowing me to use it to improve my students listening skills in MFL! Embed in any document or presentation. Absolutely brilliant.

Brittany Horn2024年3月18日

★★★★★5

Every student and teacher needs the Mote extension! For teachers, Mote allows for personal audio feedback that is quick and easy. Mote also allows educators to had audio supports to Google Slides, Docs, Forms, and other platforms. Students also can use Mote for creation, verbal fluency, and to explain their learning. The Mote extension is easy to use and great for all ages. Mote breaks down learning barriers with transcription and tranlastion features, making learning accessible to all. Voice notes can also be shared via QR codes, link, or embed code.

Dr. Desiree Alexander2024年3月13日

★★★★★5

I absolutely love MOTE! I always say if you are using Google tools without Mote installed, you are using them to their full capability! Download it today!

Claudia Fisanotti2024年3月13日

★★★★★5

Mote is so easy to use! As a teacher, I use it to create escape room messages for my students! As a teacher trainer, I use it to answer emails in the fastest but also most effective way. Mote is also a super inclusive tool and and an efficient way to create language learning lessons with a twist!