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Listening to a Synthesized Voice Pronunciation
You can play the reading of terms, phrases, and examples of all built-
in languages while a defi nition or comment screen is on the display.
Audio may not be available for certain dictionaries.
Each dictionary is preset with an appropriate pronunciation language,
but the reading feature is disabled for some dictionaries. If the reading
feature is disabled for a dictionary you are using, you can select the
pronunciation language you want. (page 89)
1
While a term defi nition
or explanation screen is
displayed, press
and
then
.
This selects one of the terms or
example sentences for reading,
and causes
to appear
on the display.
An icon (such as
) will
appear on the screen indicating
the pronunciation language.
2
Use and
to select the term, phrase, or example you want
to hear.
You can press
to shorten the selection by removing the highlighting
starting from the fi rst (leftmost) word of the phrase or example that is
highlighted. You also could press
or
to shorten the
highlighting from the last (rightmost) word of the phrase or example.
3
Press
.
This will sound the reading of the term or example.
4
To exit reading, press
.
Your electronic dictionary analyzes sentences before reading them.
The pronunciation produced by the electronic dictionary may not be
correct if there is more than one pronunciation for a term or if the term
contains numerals.
Long sentences can result in long pauses, breaks, and incorrect
pronunciation.
Any text inside of parentheses is skipped.
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