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SpeakText
Version: For Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista Written by ZhaoWenPan |
AT&T Natural Voices: US English, UK English, German, French, Spanish (16khz male&female voices) |
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What is SpeakText? SpeakText is a text to speech application. It can call any speech engine compatible with Microsoft's Speech Application Programming Interface. Use SpeakText, you can let your computer to read aloud story to you, convert text to mp3 and then listen to story anywhere. >>Top About voice quality and language? The quality of pronunciation is determined by Text to Speech engine. There are some free Text to Speech engines, you can download and install them from through our website, but quality of these free Text to Speech engines is not very good. If you don't like these free Text to Speech engine's sound, I recommend you to choose Natural Voice on our website. . >>Top How to change voice? Click Voice dropdown list on main interface and select voice:  >>Top How to change speak times and rate?  Change repeat times Change speak rate >>Top How to open Main Menu of SpeakText? Main Menu is a very important interface of SpeakText. Many functions have to be performed via it. Right-click here to open Main Menu  Main Menu: 
>>Top How to listen to text on webpage? When you use Internet Explorer 5.0 (or higher version) to read news on the Internet, after installing SpeakText, there are three icons on your Internet Explorer's toolbar  . You can
listen to text on web page as following: 1. Select text you want to listen to. 2. Click 
to speak text you have selected. Click
 to pause
or resume speaking. Click
 to stop speaking. Look at the following illustration to be more clear:  You can also select text you want to listen to. Right click. On the pop-up menu, select "Speak by SpeakText". Then these text you selected will be spoken. Look at the following illustration to be more clear:  >>Top How to listen to text file(*.txt file) in explorer? In Explorer, choose any text file(*.txt file) you want to listen to, right-click, select "Speak by SpeakText" in the pop-up menu. Now enjoy your listening. For example, to listen to C:\Read\book2.txt, the screen will be like this:  >>Top How to convert text to mp3, how to batch convert text files to mp3 files? 1. Text to mp3 On SpeakText main interface, click "Convert" to convert text of textbox to mp3 file. Look at the following illustration to be more clear:  2. Batch convert text files to mp3 files On Main Menu of SpeakText click "Batch convert Text Files to MP3"  The Batch convert text files to MP3 files window will appear:  Select your source text files and output folder, then click "Convert to mp3". >>Top How to listen to MS Word document? Copy speaktext32.dot to one of the following folder: For Windows98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista and Office 97 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\STARTUP For Windows98/Me and Office2000/XP C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP For Windows2000 and Office 2000/XP/2003 C:\Documents and Settings\YourWindowsLoginName\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP For Windows XP and Office2000/XP/2003/2007 C:\Documents and Settings\YourWindowsLoginName\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP For Windows Vista and Office2000/XP/2003/2007 C:\Users\YourWindowsLoginName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you installed SpeakText on C:\Program Files\speaktext, then speaktext32.dot is in C:\Program Files\speaktext\MSWordMacro Re-run MS Word, the icon
will appear on MS Word Toolbar. Click first icon to read aloud MS Word document,
click second icon to pause speaking, click third icon to stop speaking.>>Top How to listen to WordPerfect document? First Step Copy speaktext1033.wpt to the first following folder, Copy speaktextspeak1033.wcm, speaktextpause1033.wcm and speaktextstop1033.wcm to the second following folder: For Windows 98/ME and WordPerfect 10 C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Corel\PerfectExpert\10\Custom WP Templates\ C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Corel\PerfectScript\10\WordPerfect\ For Windows 98/ME and WordPerfect 11 C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Corel\PerfectExpert\11\Custom WP Templates\ C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Corel\PerfectScript\11\WordPerfect\ For Windows 98 and WordPerfect 12 C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Corel\PerfectExpert\12\Custom WP Templates\ C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Corel\PerfectScript\12\WordPerfect\ For Windows 98 and WordPerfect 13 C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Corel\PerfectExpert\13\EN\Custom WP Templates\ C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Corel\PerfectScript\13\EN\WordPerfect\ For Windows 2000/XP and WordPerfect 10 C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Corel\PerfectScript\10\WordPerfect\ C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Corel\PerfectExpert\10\Custom WP Templates\ For Windows 2000 and WordPerfect 11 C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Corel\PerfectScript\11\WordPerfect\ C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Corel\PerfectExpert\11\Custom WP Templates\ For Windows 2000/XP/2003 and WordPerfect 12 C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Corel\PerfectScript\12\WordPerfect\ C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Corel\PerfectExpert\12\Custom WP Templates\ For Windows Vista/Vista64 and WordPerfect 12 C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Corel\PerfectScript\12\WordPerfect\ C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Corel\PerfectExpert\12\Custom WP Templates\ For Windows 2000/XP and WordPerfect 13 C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Corel\PerfectScript\13\EN\WordPerfect\ C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Corel\PerfectExpert\13\EN\Custom WP Templates\ Second Step Move mouse to Help right and Right-Click, select Settings. On Customize Settings select Toolbars Click Copy On Copy Toolbars Template to copy from speaktext1033->SpeakText Template to copy to wp12US On Toolbars Settings select SpeakText Close >>Top How to listen to OpenOffice Writer document? 1, Run OpenOffice Writer, on main menu select "Tools" > "Macros" > "Organize Dialogs", this will open the "OpenOffice.org Basic Macros Organizer". 2, On OpenOffice.org Basic Macros Organizer, click "Libraries" > Location: My Macros & Dialogs. 3, Import C:\Program Files\speaktext\MSWordMacro\script.xlb. Close OpenOffice.org Basic Macros Organizer. 4, On main menu select select "Tools" > "Customize" > "Toolbars" (standard) > "Add". On "Add Commands" interface expand branch left left category "OpenOffice.org Macros" > "My Macros" > "speaktext" > "Module1" 5, On Commands list, choose "SpeakDoc", "PauseOrResume" and "StopSpeak" to Add. Close "Add Commands" window. 6, On "Customize" standard toolbar, you can see "SpeakDoc", "PauseOrResume", and "StopSpeak" three commands, Please begin to add these three command icons. 7, Select "SpeakDoc", Click "Modify" > "Change Icon". On "Change Icon" window "Import" C:\Program Files\speaktext\OpenOfficeMacro\Speak.PNG Choose
in the list of "Icons" then click "OK".Select "PauseOrResume", Click "Modify" > "Change Icon". On "Change Icon" window "Import" C:\Program Files\speaktext\OpenOfficeMacro\Pause.PNG Choose
in the list of "Icons" then click "OK".Select "StopSpeak", Click "Modify" > "Change Icon". On "Change Icon" window "Import" C:\Program Files\speaktext\OpenOfficeMacro\Stop.PNG Choose
in the list of "Icons" then click "OK".8, Click "OK" to close "Customize" window. Note : If there is no any text in OpenOffice Writer, Click on icons of SpeakText may be encountered error messages. >>Top How to use clipboard to read aloud? Watching clipboard to read aloud is turn off default, turn on this function as the following illustration:  >>Top How to set alarm clock? On Main Menu of SpeakText click "Set Alarm Clock" to open Set Alarm Clock window:  Set Alarm Clock window:  Note: After your setting, do not forget "Save all settings". >>Top How to slide read aloud words from a words list file? On Main Menu of SpeakText click "Slide speak words" to open Slide speak words window:  Slide speak words window:  Select a words text files and then click Begin button, words in the text file will read aloud one by one. You can use Notepad to create a words text file that one word occupies one line. >>Top How to install Microsoft Lili - Chinese (China) Text to Speech engine onto your Windows Vista 32bit Edition? Step #1 Copy folder zh-CHS to C:\Program Files\Common Files\SpeechEngines\Microsoft\TTS20 (Note: Windows Vista forbid copy any folder to the folder above, a good method is using Windows Vista PE Compact Disc to start your computer and then copy folder zh-CHS to the folder C:\Program Files\Common Files\SpeechEngines\Microsoft\TTS20 Step #2 Double click file HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.SOFTWARE.Classes.CLSID.44930F40-5EA2-4B9E-A12F-84A7C5E5338F.reg and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.SOFTWARE.Microsoft.Speech.Voices.Tokens.MS-Lili-2052-20-DSK.reg input relational imformation to Windows Vista Registry Step #3 Run SpeakText and select Microsoft Lili - Chinese (China) to read aloud Chinese >>Top How to uninstall SpeakText? Uninstalling is easy. Uninstalling SpeakText can be started through either of the following ways: 1. Start -> Programs -> SpeakText -> Uninstall SpeakText 2. Start -> Settings -> control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs, choose "SpeakText" and click "Add/Remove" button. >>Top How to download large file? Using Web browser download large file is very slow and can't pause downloading or resuming downloading. So, you need download tools to download large file. I recommend you Free Download Manager, access http://www.freedownloadmanager.org to get Free Download Manager. >>Top How to extract compressed ZIP file? I recommend that you use 7-Zip to extract compressed ZIP file. You can get it on http://www.7-zip.org/ . >>Top |
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