Textassist - Creative SB0060 - Sound Blaster Live User Manual

TextAssist

5-8 Additional Sound Blaster Live! Applications
TextAssist is a reader agent that empowers your computer with the ability to
synthesize human voices and read online text aloud. With TextAssist it is easy
to start, stop, pause, or resume a reading session.
TextAssist has the following key features:
Feature
Synthesized speech output
Predefined and user-
defined voices
Special text filters
Adjustable reading styles
Exception dictionaries
Application-specific
settings
TextAssist has numerous advanced features including:
Voice Editor: You can select from numerous predefined male and female voices, or customize
a new voice to your liking.
Dictionary Editor: You can add words that require special pronunciation to the TextAssist
dictionary.
Allows You To
Have your computer read text aloud.
Choose between the predefined voices, change the parameters of
the voices, or create voices.
Define the reading manner of the program, whether it should
read signs, embedded or quoted text, or the header of e-mail
messages.
Define the reading style of the program—pause after every
word, read punctuation marks and math symbols, etc..
Define special pronunciation for exceptional words, such as
abbreviations.
Set different parameters for each application.