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Menu Commands File | Edit | View | Read | Text Open (CTRL+O) Opens text files (txt) or book scripts (bok). Book scripts are macro files that, for instance, download and read books from the Internet. Clipboard (F2) Opens and reads the text content of the Windows® Clipboard Web (CTRL+W) Opens and reads the text content of the active Netscape® or Microsoft Internet Explorer® Web page. Whenever you change pages, HELP Read, even if it is currently reading the old page, will automatically update itself and begin reading the new page. Literature Launches your browser with the HELP Read Literature Table Of Contents. Clicking on any of the books listed will download and read the book. Note: this feature obviously requires an active Internet connection. If you have trouble with this feature, please ensure that your winsock.dll and related Internet files are in the DOS path. Reload (F4) Refreshes loading of current text document or Clipboard contents. Exit Closes Program. Return to HELP Read Help Contents EditSelect All (CTRL+A) The entire text content of the currently loaded "page" will be highlighted as in a word-processing program for copying. Note: Dragging a held left-mouse button across text will allow the selection of that text as in a word-processing program for copying to the clipboard. Copy To Clipboard (CTRL+C) Selection copies highlighted text to Windows® clipboard. Append To Clipboard Add highlighted text to any text currently held on the clipboard. Search (CTRL+S) Selection supports unlimited word/phrase search within the currently active text. Continue (F3) Selection continues last search attempt, regardless of document change. Font (CTRL+F) Changes to fonts are limited to the styles and sizes supported by your computer. Return to HELP Read Help Contents View Reading Companion Checking this option will display a talking head which graphically demonstrates the pronunciation of words. Words on Window Title Displays each word on the Window Title as it is read. Document Text Option to hide or display the document text. Document Back (Shift + F6) and Forward (Shift + F7) Navigate to previous and more recently opened text files. See also: Arrow Buttons, Pull Down Index. Page First (F5), Previous (F6), Next (F7), Last (F8) Navigate "parsed" sections, or "pages", of larger sized documents for scanning areas of the whole document by manual preview and manual review of text content.
Add Bookmark Sets a starting place for the current document at the text cursor location. Return to HELP Read Help Contents Read Start (CTRL+R) Begins reading aloud from the current cursor location to the end of the document. Sentence (F4) Reads a single sentence aloud beginning at the current cursor location. Select Voice (CTRL+V) Opens "talking head" and voice setting files. Save Current Voice As... Saves your current speed, pitch, volume, and "talking head" settings for later use as a personal or altered (.voi) file. Volume (F11 or CTRL-F11) Makes reading louder or softer. Pitch (F10 or CTRL-F10) Makes the reading voice higher or lower. Speed (F9 or CTRL-F9) You can speed up or slow down, respectively, the reading. Highlight… (F12) You can instruct the program to highlight words or highlight sentences while reading. Highlighting sentences results in less movement on-screen and can be less distracting. Highlighting words is better for documents with long sentences or for learning word pronunciation. Return to HELP Read Help Contents Text Line Breaks (CTRL+L) Selection reduces the amount of line break to the text format, allowing an un-broken reading of active text (other than the emphasis from sentence punctuation). Hawaiian Syntax Selection indicates that the text document currently open is written in the Hawaiian Language, which signals the program to pronounce the words as Hawaiian.
Pronounce (CTRL+P) Select to customize or correct the pronunciation of a single word. Define Abbreviation Selection allows pronunciation of term. Definition: (CTRL+D) Downloads Webster's definition for the highlighted word from the Internet. Obviously, requires an active connection to the Internet. Synonym: Downloads a synonym for the highlighted word from the Internet. Unique Word List sCreates a list of unique words based on the current document. This feature is useful for creating document-specific phonetic dictionaries. Just rename your new.dic file and listen to the list of unique words, correcting the mispronounced words as you go. The new new.dic file will contain phonetic misspellings which may be distributed with the etext to ensure proper pronunciation. See the BOK scripting reference for tips how to attach a document dictionary to a specific etext. Return to Help Contents On-Screen Hotspots Sponsor Messages Recent File List Toolbar Buttons
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Return to HELP Read Help Contents Reading Text from Microsoft Word® One of the book scripts included with HELP Read is winword.bok. If you open this file, the program will copy and read aloud the text of whatever document you're editing with Microsoft Word®. This is the equivilent of placing HELP Read in clipboard mode and copying the contents of the Word document. This script may be edited (book scripts are simple text files) to read text from any program. Return to HELP Read Help Contents Key Shortcuts Return to HELP Read Help Contents |
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