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Copilot Intro

Copilot is a marvelous tool for exploring the Totally Literate site. It can help you understand text more clearly, follow ideas more confidently, and move through the site with ease.

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Copilot can help you:

  • Explain vocabulary

  • Summarize passages

  • Clarify meaning

  • Answer questions about the text

  • Compare ideas

  • Check your understanding

  • Explore topics more deeply

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Copilot Companion Guide 

Welcome to your personal companion on Totally Literate!​

copilot screen

Copilot Platform

Copilot, your ever-present companion on Totally Literate, is willing and able to help you in numerous sundry ways, such as by — 

  • explaining idiomas and figures of speech 

  • summarizing stories or paragraphs so they’re easier to grasp

  • translating sentences or whole pages 

  • analyzing any page, Word doc, or PDF  

  • correcting faulty pronunciation 

  • defining words and guiding you to other outside resources where synonyms, antonyms, etc. can be found and read aloud.

  • providing guidance on how to read translated text with the proper TTS voice

  • answering questions in either text or speech

  • speaking in two or more languages in the same conversation

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Opening Copilot on Your Device

  • If you’re using Microsoft Edge, Copilot opens directly in your browser—no download needed.

  • If the Copilot icon isn’t visible, you can open Copilot anytime at copilot.microsoft.com then adding the Copilot app to your taskbar.​

Pinning Copilot on Your Taskbar

  • ​Pin Copilot to your taskbar (Windows 10 or Windows 11)

  • Open the Start menu

  • Type Copilot

  • Right‑click Copilot

  • Select Pin to taskbar

  • Turn on the built‑in Copilot button (Windows 11)

  • Right‑click the taskbar

  • Select Taskbar settings

  • Switch Copilot to On

How to Read aloud —​

first 4 Copilot's features
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Taskbar

  • Click Read aloud. As you do the narration will begin, and voice controls and Voice options will appear on the taskbar atop your screen.

voice controls and voice options

Voice controls and Voice options

How toTranslate —​

  • After the narration has begun, pause it by clicking the center icon on the Voice controls as depicted below.

voice controls

Voice controls 

  • Next click Voice options. When you do a pop-up will appear. 

voice options pop out

Voice options popup

  • In the pop-up above, click the faint box that says,"Choose a voice" When you do that a long drop-down menu of TTS voices appears, as the one pictured below.

  • From the drop-down menu, click on the voice you want. (For this example, we have chosen Arabic (Egypt.)

drop-down TTS menu

TTS Voice options pop-up menu (partial view)

  • Now that we have picked the voice we want, we click "X" on the far right of the taskbar depicted below. That will make both the Voice controls and Voice options disappear, thus indicating our Arabic TTS voice will read the text.

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Taskbar

  • To translate the text from English to the Arabic we've chosen, we must click the down-pointing caret next to Translate, not on Translate itself nor the icon beside it. When you do, the drop-down menu as the one shown below will appear.

  • Click Arabic. When you do, presto—the text now appears in Arabic.

  • Next, click Read aloud. The page will be read from right-to-left in  the Arabic dialect we've chosen.​

long list of languages

Language Menu

cogwheel and X
Translation ot Arabic on Copilot platform

Arabic

IR Features

Note: Right‑to‑left languages may not display correctly on some pages. To read the entire Totally Literate website in Arabic (with English beside it), click Google Translate in the footer. On the GT platform under Websites, type TotallyLiterate.org.​

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