Text Speaker has a few different methods to begin reading from the current cursor position. Click on the ‘Open’ option from the tool bar and select the eBook or document you want to read. Move the cursor to the point to begin reading the eBook. Go to the ‘Speak’ menu and select the ‘Speak from current cursor position’ option. Text Speaker will start reading the text from that point. You can also right click on the text and select the ‘Speak from current cursor position’ option. A third option is to use the keyboard shortcut. Finally, if you are reading a long eBook, you may find the bookmarks feature helpful.

You can use the Talking Reminders in Text Speaker. Talking reminders are used to read out loud any message at a scheduled time. To add a reminder, click on the ‘Talking Reminders’ option from the tool bar. Then click on the ‘Create’ button to schedule the reminder. Enter your message in the text field. Configure the start date and time. Select the option to repeat the message and set it for 30 minutes. The message will be read aloud every 30 minutes. [image: TSpost5523.jpg]

Yes, Text Speaker can read your documents out loud and it will definitely help you with proofreading. When you listen to the document, it is easier to catch words that are misspelled, missing and also punctuation that's off. Simply open your document in Text Speaker, and click on the ‘Speak’ button to start reading. [image: Mid-Speech.png]

You have to use the spell tag in Text Speaker to read acronyms in your document. Open your document in Text Speaker. Select the acronym text and click on the Edit menu. Select the ‘Spell Selected Word / Phrase’ option. The text will be surrounded with the <spell> tag. Click on the Speak button to test the spell tag. Finally, convert the text file to audio to a mp3 file.

The default setting is to highlight words as they are spoken by Text Speaker. You can disable the highlighting option from the settings. Open the Settings dialog and uncheck the ‘Highlight words when reading’ option, then the click Ok button. Start reading the text document. Notice the text is no longer highlighted. [image: Settings.png]

You can use the outline area feature in Text Speaker to mark the text for listening at another time. Open your document in Text Speaker and select the text which you want to mark. Right click and select ‘Outline Area’. Repeat this for all the text which you want to mark. Save the file. To listen to the marked text, open the file in Text Speaker. Go to the ‘Speak’ menu and select the ‘Speak Outlined Text’ option. [image: AudioOutline.png]

You can add pause intervals in Text Speaker. Open your document file in Text Speaker. Select the position between sentences for which you want to insert a pause. Go to the Edit menu and click on the ‘Insert Pause’ option. Choose the pause time from the list or use the ‘User Defined’ option to specify a time. Repeat these steps for all the other sentences. Listen to the text and when it sounds right, you can convert it to an audio file. You can also use the pause after reading a paragraph.

Yes, Text Speaker can read text in other languages. Supported languages are English, French, German, Spanish, Polish, and Romanian. You will need to use the correct voice for the respective language. You can download free 30 day evaluation voices here: https://www.deskshare.com/text-to-speech-voices.aspx Install a voice for the French language and you can start listening to your eBook spoken in a natural human sounding voice.

You can use talking reminders in Text Speaker to read text files at different times. Create a talking reminder with your date, time and repeat interval values. Select the ‘Text File Containing Message’ option and browse for your text file. Note that the reminder will only read the first 1000 words from the file. Similarly add a new reminder for another text file and set a different time. Your files will be read aloud at the specified time. [image: ReminderDetails.png]

You can change the way Text Speaker pronounces arithmetic words and symbols in your document. On the Pronunciation dialog, enter the ‘-’ sign in the Word text field and put the word ‘minus’ in the Pronunciation text field. Test the pronunciation and click apply. Now, if you start reading the document it will read the minus sign. Similarly, you can adjust the pronunciation for other arithmetic symbols. Once you finish adjusting the pronunciations, just convert the document file to audio format. [image: PronunciationMain12.png]

You can use the bookmark feature in Text Speaker to continue at the last read position. Add a bookmark to return to any point in your document. When you stop reading the book, add a bookmark by right clicking and selecting the add bookmark option, then save your document. When you are ready to continue reading, open your book in Text Speaker. From the Edit menu, select the ‘Go to Bookmark’ option and choose the bookmark you have added. Finally, start reading from current cursor position using Speak menu. [image: GotoBookmark.png]

A reminder in Text Speaker will run at the scheduled time, even if Text Speaker is not running. In this way, a reminder will help you avoid missing important tasks you need to do. To schedule a reminder, select the start date, the time and enter a message. The message will be read aloud when the scheduled reminder launches. [image: ReminderDetails.png]

Text Speaker gives you the ability to use multiple voices in a single audio. So, yes, each character can have their own voice! If there are many different characters in your book, it will help to make a list with two columns - the left will be the character name and on the right will be the voice name. We will be using voice tags before each character speaks. Open your book file with Text Speaker. To use a specific voice, select the text in the document and from the Edit menu click on the ‘Insert Voice Change’ option. Once you complete inserting the voices for each character, you can start the conversion to MP3 audio format. If you need additional voices, you can download them here: https://www.deskshare.com/text-to-speech-voices.aspx [image: ChangeVoice.png]

Yes, you can read text anywhere on the screen and in almost any application without having to copy-paste. To begin, launch Text Speaker and set the hotkey combination you would like to use when reading text from other applications. To configure the shortcut key, go to ‘Settings’ from menu and then select the keyboard hotkeys tab. Set the key combination that's easy for you to remember and click OK. Now, you are ready to open up any application such as word or the browser. Select the text from the application and use the hotkey combination to start reading text. Text Speaker will start reading the content out loud. You can also pause, resume and stop Text Speaker from reading the text. [image: HotkeySettings.png]

Yes, you can add a pause duration in Text Speaker. Put the cursor at the end of the paragraph. Go to the ‘Edit’ menu and select the ‘Insert Pause’ option. Choose the pause duration or select a user defined option to enter a value you want. You can also right click and select the ‘Insert Pause’ option from the context menu. After adding a pause, convert your text file to MP3 audio format.

A batch conversion of text to audio is supported in Text Speaker. Click on the ‘Open’ icon on the tool bar. Select all your text files and click on the open button. The files will be listed in the ‘File List’. [image: SelectMultipleFiles.png] Choose the files which you would like to convert to audio from the file list. Go to the ‘Speak’ menu and select the ‘Convert Selected Files to Audio’ option.

Yes, you can do this in Text Speaker. Open your document, select the text, go to the Speak menu or right click and select ‘Speak Highlighted Text’. If you have many paragraphs in different parts of the document, then select the text, right click and choose the ‘Outline Area’ option for each paragraph. [image: AudioOutline.png] Do this for all the text you want to read. Finally go to the ‘Speak’ menu and select the ‘Speak Outlined Text’ option.

Yes, you can adjust the audio quality of the text to speech audio files generated by Text Speaker. Once you have your text file ready, click on the ‘Convert To Audio’ option on the tool bar. You will see the following window: [image: MP3Properties.png] Select the value for the audio quality from the drop down list. You can also set the values for audio frequency and bit rate. Generally, a higher bit rate will produce better quality. For more details see this link: https://www.deskshare.com/help/ts/SpeakingTextToFile.aspx

Yes, you can adjust the pronunciation of words or a set of characters in Text Speaker. To adjust the pronunciation click on the ‘Pronunciation’ option on toolbar. [image: PronunciationMain12.png] Specify the pronunciation of the name, then click on Test to check the pronunciation. Finally, click on the Apply button. For more details on adjusting pronunciation refer this link: https://www.deskshare.com/help/ts/AdjustingPronunciation.aspx

Text Speaker allows you to create audio files with the words spelled out. Select the words you want to spell. Go to the Edit menu and select the ‘Spell Selected Word/Phrase’ option. Once you have finished selecting your words or sections, click the ‘Convert To Audio’ option on the tool bar. You can create your audio files in mp3 or wav file format. [image: MP3Properties.png]