Having your Document Read to You
To read from the beginning of the page
To start reading from the beginning of the page place the page under the camera, click
the
Space bar
to turn the camera on and press the
E
key. You will hear the voice in a
few seconds. To stop or pause the voice, press the
Control
key. To resume the voice,
press the
X
key. To hear and see the text being read, hit
F
to bring you to the text
Formatted
mode. You can also start reading by going to
Voice
on the tab menu and
down to
Speak Entire Page.
Page description
A page may have text, pictures, graphics, etc. We define sections as page elements or
parts of the page that can be easily visually separated from the rest of the page. For
example, if the page is a newspaper, then each column will be a section. If the page has
a picture in the middle of the page, then the text above the picture is the first section
and the text below the picture is the second section.
The key combination
Shift + E
will describe the page layout, such as:
- How many words are on the page
- How many sections are on the page
- What percentage of the page is text
- How many columns and headers (if any)
To read from the beginning of the section
To start reading from the beginning of the next section press the
Control
key plus the
Down Arrow
. You will hear the voice in a few seconds. To stop or pause the voice at
any point, press the
Control
key. To resume the voice, press the
X
key. Reading will
stop at the end of the section.
Moving to the next word, sentence, section, or another
document
Zoom-Ex allows the reader to move around the page, whether it’s by word, sentence or
section.
The following are a few ways to move around the document page:
To move to the next word press
C Right Arrow
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