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