Saturday 24 January 2015

Is a text-to-speech option available ?

I doubt the site itself has text-to-speech abilities, but your Windows version should (assuming you have Windows of some sort). In your Windows version: 



  1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Speech.

  2. Select the Text-to-Speech tab.

  3. Move the Voice speed slider to change the rate of the Text-to-Speech voice.

  4. Click Preview Voice to hear the currently selected voice at the new rate.

One of the problems you may run into is that it will...


I doubt the site itself has text-to-speech abilities, but your Windows version should (assuming you have Windows of some sort). In your Windows version: 



  1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Speech.

  2. Select the Text-to-Speech tab.

  3. Move the Voice speed slider to change the rate of the Text-to-Speech voice.

  4. Click Preview Voice to hear the currently selected voice at the new rate.

One of the problems you may run into is that it will read everything on the Windows page. An easy fix for that is to highlight the text itself, copy it (right click, then copy), then paste it into a Word document, then activate text-to-speech. 


If you use some other interface than Windows, just tell me what it is and I'll give you tips to work around it. Best of luck!


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