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How to use the Listen function ReadSpeaker

ReadSpeaker allows the text on the website to be read out loud to you. It provides you assistance if you have trouble reading text online. By having the text read out loud to you, you can understand the information on the website more easily. This makes the website more accessible and more pleasant to visit. As a user you don't have to download anything.

How does it work?

Listen to the main content

You simply click the listen button to listen to the web page's content:
screenshot of listen button

A control panel will appear (see image below) and ReadSpeaker automatically starts reading the text of the web page out loud.
screenshot of expanded player

In the control panel you can:

Listen to selected text

You can select a part of the text that you want to listen to and then press the pop-up listen button which appears next to the mouse pointer. When you click the pop-up listen button, a smaller control panel will appear (see the image below) and ReadSpeaker will automatically start reading the text you have selected.
screenshot of pop-up player

In this control panel you can:

Settings

In the settings menu you can:

screenshot of expanded player with settings menu

If you click on the flash player it will be in focus so that you can control it with the keyboard:



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