Read-To-Me Help

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Read-To-Me Overview

READ-TO-ME provides a general purpose text pad for copying and pasting text from any other source such as web articles, electronic documents, or e-mails. You can playback the text, enlarge and shrink the font, and adjust volume, Text-To-Speech, and Text Tracking settings. Learning Center provides an interface to the optical character recognition features for quickly scanning and playing back printed materials.

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Playback Controls [screenshot]

• Click or tapto start playback.
• Click or tapto stop playback.
• Click or tapto zoom-in (increase font size).
• Click or tapto zoom-out (decrease font size).

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Adjust Volume

• Click or tapto adjust volume. [screenshot]

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Playback Settings

• Click or tapto select voices and adjust playback speed and pitch. [screenshot]
• Click or tapto adjust the word, sentence, and text colors and shades. [screenshot]

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Pop-up Menu [screenshot]

Right-click or press and hold to see the Pop-up menu. If you do not select a word or phrase first, then you will not be able to cut, copy, read or spell the text out loud from the Pop-up menu.

To select a word or phrase, double-click or tap to select a word; drag your mouse or finger to select a phrase. This will take some practice on your individual computer or tablet, but will soon become familiar.

• Click or tapto remove selected text and place it in your computer's clipboard.
• Click or tapto copy the selected text to your computer's clipboard.
• Click or tapto paste text already in your clipboard to the selected area. If a word or phrase was selected, it will be replaced by the new text.
• Click or tapto read the selected word or phrase out loud.
• Click or tapto spell the selected word or phrase out loud.
• Click or tapto open the interactive DICTIONARY. If a word was selected, its definition will be displayed.

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Interactive Dictionary [screenshot]

• If a word was previously selected, it will appear in this box. If no word was selected, then enter a new word and click or tap(or the ENTER key) to find its definition.
• The word's definition is displayed in the box.
• Click or tap(MERRIAM-WEBSTER logo) to open your browser and navigate to the Advanced Learner's English Dictionary page to further research the word (an Internet connection is required).
• Click or tapto adjust playback volume.
• Click or tapto spell the selected word or phrase out loud.
• Click or tapto playback the word definition.
• Click or tapto search the dictionary for the word's definition.