Starting the Text to Speech Reader.
On your desktop, double click the SpeakComputer icon.
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This open the main SpeakComputer software selector. Click on the Reader button to
launch the text to speech reader.
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The Reader starts with the window looking as below.
You can now start typing and when you are ready, simple click on the speak button
and the software will read the text out aloud. If you just want the software to
read certain text, simple select the text within the document and click Speak.
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To open a new tabbed document, simply click on file file menu and click "New Speaker...".
From the file menu you can also see your recently viewed, created of modified documents.
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You can select from pre-installed text to speech voices which voice you
want the software to read. Please remember. All Text to Speech voices are language
specific. That means an English Text to Speech voice only speaks English and a Spanish
Text to Speech voice only speaks Spanish. You need to purchase the language specific
Text to Speech voice you require. Windows Vista includes a great natural sounding
voice named "Microsoft Anna". Microsoft Anna is an English speaking voice thus only
speaks English.
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You can use the echo keys feature, to read aloud the keys pressed as you type. The
echokeys feature combined with the zoom feature can be helpful if you suffer from
visual disabilities.
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Right clicking on the text to speech text area exposes the handy context
menu. From this menu you can choose to highlight the spoken word, export text to
MP3 or WAV files, cut, copy and paste etc.
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