It allows you to change the voice and the speed of the speech, and save it as a WAV or MP3 file. WordTalk is another plug-in for Microsoft Word, and it's available free from Call Scotland at the University of Edinburgh. Otherwise, you can play back the MP3 file using any MP3 player. There's a range of programs to handle DAISY files including DaisyWorm for the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, and Go Read for Android. It makes audio files much easier to navigate. It was developed in Sweden in the early 1990s and adopted by America's National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
#HOW TO LISTEN TO SOUND CLIP IN MICROSOFT PDF VIEWER SOFTWARE#
This will save your RTF (Rich Text Format) or other document as an XML ebook and a synchronised MP3 audio file created using Microsoft's TTS software and the LAME encoding engine.ĭAISY is the world standard for digital talking books, the name being derived from Digital Accessible Information System. This lets you select "Save as DAISY" from the Word menu and then "Full DAISY". If you have Microsoft Office, try the open source Microsoft Word add-in Save as DAISY, which works with Word 2003, 20. There are also lots of separate programs that either use Microsoft's SAPI (speech application programming interface) and Speech Platform software or bring their own TTS system. In Microsoft Office 20, Speak is built into Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote. As you appreciate, TTS is also part of Microsoft Windows, where it is currently used by Narrator to provide screen-reading facilities for people with impaired vision.
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