Episode #14 - Noisy Book App

SHOW NOTES:

Noisy Book App Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noisy-book/id1474786858

Noisy Book Word List: http://bit.ly/3HR6RH5 

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TRANSCRIPT:  (full transcript link)

Hello and welcome to episode number fourteen of the one-five. I am your podcast hostess - Tricia Louis - the self-designated tech goddess and I will be coming to you weekly in this audio podcast format with great edtech tools, tips, and tricks.

In this week’s episode, I will be talking about the Noisy Book app. This is a fun app that takes a story you make up OR one you read from a book and adds sound effects as you read. The app is free for iphone/ipad and at one time had a 99 cent in-app purchase to unlock saving more than one story. Thanks to a few emails to the developers of the app, I am able to tell you that the app is now ALL FREE (with all functions).

When you open the app, you have to make sure to allow the use of the microphone & access to speech recognition on your device. Once that happens you simply start reading or making up a story and the app adds the particular sound effects in. The app has nearly 800 of these sound effect words (check the show notes for a link to a google sheet with about 600 of them listed) so you can use that as a guide if you are making up a story. Just as a note, saying the words “the end” is a verbal cue for the app that your story is done and then it saves it locally on your device. This would be a fun app for students to use in your learning environment as there are no logins necessary and since it saves locally there are no cloud services involved.  You could give your students 3-5 (or more) words on the list to write a story and then have them read it into the app to hear the sound effects. With the full functionality of the app unlocked, you can save your stories and be able to listen to them later. You can even save the story as a PDF and print if you want to.

If you select the menu in the upper right corner of the app you can change the colors/fonts used when stories are saved, learn more about the app, and even access a FAQ section. Under the advanced part of the menu, there are a few options you can choose from and you can even choose to “reset everything” if you want to erase all the stories on the app and just start over.

All in all, this is a cute and fun app to use with young students as it is a way to bring a little variety to a reading or writing assignment.

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Keep in mind the information shared on this podcast may take additional clearances from your tech department to work properly in your district, school, or classroom. I have vetted all of the information  shared on this podcast and it is available and/or correct on the date the podcast is originally published. But, remember that services, sites, or products can change or become unavailable without a lot of notice. 

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