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December 5, 2025

Click, Speak, Drag. Kick Your Feet up and Type with Your Voice.

Speech-to-text is now even easier to use, try it with your students by:

  1. Placing the cursor where you want to type
  2. Tapping on the extension
  3. Navigating to writing mode
  4. Tapping microphone for 'speech to text'
  5. Dictating your text
  6. Tapping complete.
  7. If the text isn't already inserted in your page, use either copy or drag 'n drop to place the text on the page.

Type with your voice in any text field. Drag and drop with ease with the latest update.

Voice typing

Speech-to-text transcription

Mote Speech to Text is now even easier to use. Students can type with their voices on any application and - if the text is not automatically inserted into their page - just drag it across.

Try it with your students by:

  1. Placing the cursor where you want to type
  2. Tapping on the extension
  3. Navigating to writing mode
  4. Tapping microphone for 'speech to text'
  5. Dictating your text
  6. Tapping complete.
  7. If the text isn't already inserted in your page, use either copy or drag 'n drop to place the text on the page.
December 5, 2025

Banish the Winter Blues: Mote Read Aloud Colors Are Here!

Personalize your Read Aloud experience with 6 paragraph and word highlighting color options!

Changing your Read Aloud paragraph and word highlighting color is simple:

  1. Click on the Mote extension
  2. Navigate to Reading mode
  3. Click Read Aloud
  4. Click on either of the colors in the pop-up. The option on the left controls paragraph highlighting color, and the right allows your to change word highlighting color
  5. Select your preferred color
  6. Now your text will be highlighted in your new choice of color!

Read Aloud with Human-Like Voice

Changing your Read Aloud paragraph and word highlighting color is simple:

  1. Click on the Mote extension
  2. Navigate to Reading mode
  3. Click Read Aloud
  4. Click on either of the colors in the pop-up. The option on the left controls paragraph highlighting color, and the right allows your to change word highlighting color
  5. Select your preferred color
  6. Now your text will be highlighted in your new choice of color!
December 5, 2025

Ho Ho Ho! Santa Reads Aloud

Ho Ho Ho! Forecast Predict an Early Motemas!

Bring festive cheer to your classroom with Santa himself! With Read Aloud, you can now narrate with Saint Nick's jolly voice to spread festive magic.

Next time you're using play page, or select area to read - select Santa from the list of voice options:

  1. Navigate to Reading Mode on the Sidebar
  2. Click either 'play page' or 'select area to read'
  3. Click 'change reading voice'
  4. Select 'Santa Claus'

Now every time you activate Read Aloud, you'll spread some festive joy!

Read Aloud with Human-Like Voice

Image Text Read Aloud

Play Page: Read Aloud

Next time you're using Play Page, Select Area to Read or Generate Audio - select Santa from the list of voice options.

  1. Navigate to Reading Mode on the Sidebar
  2. Click either 'play page' or 'select area to read'
  3. Click 'change reading voice'
  4. Select 'Santa Claus' (US) or 'Father Christmas (UK)

Just like all the best Christmas presents, Santa voice is only available "while stocks last"!

December 1, 2025

Great Docs! Export Highlights to Google Docs

Students now have an easy and rewarding way to export highlights and vocabulary from any web page. 'Export to Google Docs' creates and populates a new and elegant Doc.

Here's how to use this yourself, or with students:

  1. On any webpage, open the Mote Sidebar and select Reading Mode
  2. Choose the Highlighter tool, and then use the various different highlight colors
  3. Remember you can also highlight vocabulary from the Dictionary tool
  4. Once you are finished, click to Export your highlights to Google Docs (you may need to click the refresh button first)
  5. A new Google Doc will open and, after a few seconds' wait, will be populated with your highlights, including word illustrations where available.

Students now have an easy and rewarding way to export highlights and vocabulary from any web page. 'Export to Google Docs' creates and populates a new and elegant Doc.

Here's how to use this yourself, or with students:

  1. On any webpage, open the Mote Sidebar and select Reading Mode
  2. Choose the Highlighter tool, and then use the various different highlight colors
  3. Remember you can also highlight vocabulary from the Dictionary tool
  4. Once you are finished, click to Export your highlights to Google Docs (you may need to click the refresh button first)
  5. A new Google Doc will open and, after a few seconds' wait, will be populated with your highlights, including word illustrations where available.
November 29, 2025

Out with the Old, In with the New: The Text Prediction Revolution Is Here!

Text prediction now has even better suggestions - with improved phonetic spelling predictions and greater accuracy:

  1. Click on the Mote extension
  2. Navigate to writing mode
  3. Click text prediction
  4. Begin typing in any text box
  5. Either type the number of the suggested word that you want, or click on it!

Out with the old, in with the new: The Text Prediction Revolution is here!

Text prediction now has even better suggestions - with improved phonetic spelling, next word prediction and greater accuracy:

  1. Click on the Mote extension
  2. Navigate to writing mode
  3. Click text prediction
  4. Begin typing in any text box
  5. Either type the number of the suggested word that you want, or click on it!
November 14, 2025

Open up your doors! Fill your class in one click

Open up your doors! Fill your class in one click

You can now import a class from Google Classroom in just a few clicks! Try it now on the my classes page.

Adding students to your class is now easier than ever:

  1. Go to www.mote.com/my-classes
  2. Click 'import from Google Classroom'
  3. Accept the basic permissions
  4. Select the class you want to import

That's it! All of your students will be automatically added to the class. You'll see a list of students already using Mote, and a list of students who will be added as soon as they set up their Mote account.

Dashboard
Class enrollment

Adding students to your class is now easier than ever:

  1. Go to www.mote.com/my-classes
  2. Click 'import from Google Classroom'
  3. Accept the basic permissions
  4. Select the class you want to import

That's it! All of your students will be automatically added to the class. You'll see a list of students already using Mote, and a list of students who will be added as soon as they set up their Mote account.

November 2, 2025

READ ALOUD ALL ABOUT IT! Mote Gives Sora & Epic a Voice-Lift They’ll Never Forget!

READ ALOUD ALL ABOUT IT! Mote Gives Sora & Epic a Voice-Lift They’ll Never Forget!

Alongside improved Sora and Epic read aloud integrations, this update includes expandable dictionary images, new highlighter labelling and more!

We’ve made some exciting updates to make your Mote experience smoother and more intuitive to use.

  • Improved Sora and Epic integrations

We've improved our read aloud experience in Sora and Epic library apps so your experience is smoother, clearer and more engaging than ever.

  • Simplified highlighter labelling

We've simplified the highlighter categories so you can instantly change labels without having to click the drop down. Simply select the color you want to use, click the edit button and change the name with no extra clicks.

  • Improved dictionary

Our picture dictionary can now expand or shrink, so you can see our beautiful images in greater detail. We've also simplified our integrated read aloud feature so it now reads both the word and its first definition.

  • Simplified text prediction navigation

Need to take a break from text prediction mode? You can now click close on the pop-over.

Sidebar

Highlighter labels

Dictionary

Read aloud with human-like voice

text prediction

We’ve made some exciting updates to make your Mote experience smoother and more intuitive to use in the Sora and Epic reading apps!

Go to either https://soraapp.com/ or https://www.getepic.com/ and find your favorite book. Opening the Mote Sidebar and clicking 'Play Page', will allow you to begin Read Aloud for any ebook. Customize your voice and playback speed and enjoy hearing the stories brought to life!

In addition to these integrations, highlighting, dictionary and text prediction have also been improved:

  • We've simplified the highlighter categories so you can instantly change labels without having to click the drop down. Simply select the color you want to use, click the edit button and change the name with no extra clicks.
  • Our picture dictionary can now expand or shrink, so you can see our beautiful images in greater detail. We've also simplified our integrated read aloud feature so it now reads both the word and its first definition.
  • Need to take a break from text prediction mode? You can now click close on the pop-over.
October 15, 2025

Your Newest Power Couple: Mote and Wakelet

Your Newest Power Couple: Mote and Wakelet

Mote is easier than ever to use in Wakelet with itegrated text prediction and highlighting!

  • Text Prediction integrations

You can now seamlessly use text prediction in any text field within Wakelet. Simply activate text prediction an being typing!

  • Highlighter integrations

You can now highlight anything within Wakelet, and it'll stay there until you choose to remove it!

Sidebar

text prediction

highlighter

Mote now seamlessly integrates into Wakelet, giving you and even better experience when using the app!

Try using text prediction:

  1. Create a new card
  2. Click on the Mote extension
  3. Switch to writing mode
  4. Activate the 'text prediction' button
  5. Begin typing, and see live word suggestions!

Try highlighter integrations:

  1. Open a new collection
  2. Click on the Mote extension
  3. Double check you're in reading mode
  4. Click the highlighter
  5. Select the label and color you want
  6. Get highlighting!
  7. When you come back to the collection, your highlights will still be there!

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