You became a teacher to be heard — not to type feedback into margins.

Does this look like your grading week?

• — A class set of essays goes home with you, and every one needs a paragraph in the margins.
• — The big projects come in right before a break — and by the time students see your comments, the moment has passed.
• — For your students with dyslexia, and your language learners, a written correction is one more thing to decode. A voice note isn’t.
• — A short typed comment lands colder than you meant it. Tone doesn’t survive text.

Sound familiar? It isn’t a you problem — and it isn’t an organization problem either.

The problem isn’t how fast you type. It’s what typing throws away.

A margin comment keeps your judgment but strips out your voice — the encouragement, the emphasis, the “you’re close.” That’s the part students respond to, and it’s the part written feedback can’t carry.

Talk & Comment puts it back, without changing where you work:

• Record in the page you’re already grading — the extension adds a mic to Docs, Slides, Forms, Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, any browser page.
• Share a link — one click copies it the moment you stop recording.
• They press play — in any browser, on any device. No install, no account, nothing new for students to learn.

Feedback students actually listen to.

When feedback arrives as your voice, it gets played — and replayed. In the most recent 90 days we measured, teachers recorded 28,105 voice notes, and those notes were played 160,228 times — about three people listening for every teacher who recorded.

How that happens:

• Your tone does the teaching. “Fix this” sounds like help, not a verdict.
• Speaking is faster than typing a paragraph of the same feedback.
• Transcripts come along on paid plans, so spoken feedback stays searchable and accessible — and translatable into 19 languages for families.

What Talk & Comment actually is

The two-minute version for the colleague who asks.

• A Chrome extension (Manifest V3, v4.x, ~833KB) records in-page — Chromebooks, Windows, Mac, Linux. Signed in to the TAC web app, you can also record with the built-in browser recorder, no extension needed. Listening never requires an install.
• Recording surfaces: Google Docs, Slides, Forms, Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace, Teams, and any other browser page.
• Listeners need nothing: shared links play inline in any modern browser, including phones. No student install, no student account. And when you open a space for responses, listeners can reply — in text or with a voice note — after typing just their name.
• Roles & safety: under-13 users are read-only by default; recording for them requires guardian consent.
• AI features on paid plans: transcripts, translation into 19 languages, and AI summaries — included from Teacher Plus up. Processing is TAC-hosted by default — cloud processing happens only with an explicit, consented opt-in in Settings — every processor is listed on our sub-processors page, and schools get advance notice and an opt-out before any processing change.
• Extension languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese (BR), Arabic.
• Limits, plainly: Free = 25 recordings a month, 3 collections, 90-day storage. Teacher Plus raises the caps — 100 a month, 10 collections, 1-year storage. Teacher Pro removes them and keeps recordings for the life of your subscription.

Try it with one class set.

The Free plan is 25 voice notes a month — about one round of feedback for one class. No credit card, no trial clock. Your library keeps Free recordings for 90 days, organized into up to 3 collections — and links you’ve already shared keep playing.

That’s the whole experiment: grade one assignment out loud. If your notes get played the way other teachers’ notes do, you’ll know within a week — and if a month’s feedback outgrows 25 notes, that’s exactly what Teacher Plus is for.