Text-to-speech (preferred edition only) – Sony ICD-BP150VTP User Manual

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Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide

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When proofreading with the help of a recorder, stop the recording while
correcting a mistake and then move on. The amount of time required to
proofread your document depends, of course, on the number of errors as
well as your typing speed. The key to efficiency here is to keep your
hands on the keyboard and use keystrokes, not the mouse, to correct
(see “Ways to correct your dictation” on page 136).

Text-to-speech (Preferred edition only)

Dragon NaturallySpeaking

®

can read any text to you in a synthesized

voice, which some people find helpful for proofreading. This feature,
available in Microsoft

®

Word, Corel

®

WordPerfect

®

, the DragonPad, and

some other applications, is called text-to-speech.

To use text-to-speech, select the text you want Dragon
NaturallySpeaking

®

to read. Then do one of the following:

Say “Read That.”

From the Sound menu on the DragonBar, click Read That.

You can also have parts of the text read to you by saying any of the
following commands:

Read Line

Read Paragraph

Read Document

Read Window” (only the words in view)

Read To Here” (read from the top of the window to the insertion
point)

Read From Here” (read from the insertion point to the bottom of the
window)

To stop Dragon NaturallySpeaking

®

as it reads, press the

ESC

key or

click the Stop Playback button

on the Extras toolbar on the

DragonBar. You cannot stop playback of text-to-speech by voice. To
change the sound of the synthesized voice, use the options on the Text-
to-speech tab of the Options dialog box (see page 205).

On most computers, you cannot give Dragon NaturallySpeaking

®

voice

commands while the program is reading to you or playing sound back. This is because
most sound cards cannot listen to you at the same time that they are playing sound.

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