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What is Talking Clipboard?
Talking Clipboard is a text to speech software, with lots of useful features. It supports all SAPI compliant voices, and can read a large number of native document file formats directly like PDF, DOC, ePub, RTF, HTML and TXT or can read text from any application using clipboard. It can convert text to audio MP3/WAV files and support full control over reading like Play/Pause/Stop, jump to next or previous paragraph or line via menu or media remote or keyboard media buttons. It supports highlighting of spoken word and batch text to audio conversion utilities. You can define alias or IPA pronunciation for words. Other features include bookmarks, spell correction, text manipulation, RSS reader, Wordnet dictionary, talking reminder, Drag & Drop support, etc. It requires Microsoft .NET 3.5 Framework to run.
How to download and install Talking Clipboard?
Talking Clipboard setup can be downloaded from: http://www.talkingclipboard.com/download/setup.exe. The setup requires Microsoft .NET 3.5 Framework to run. The Talking Clipboard setup can be used like any other Windows standard installers.
How to use inbuilt dictionary in Talking Clipboard?
Just double click on the word for which you want to see the meaning. If the word is present in the Wordnet dictionary, a tooltip will popup with the definition for that word, or press Ctrl key and double click on that word, to view the definition online on wiktionary website.
How to listen to RSS feeds using Talking Clipboard?
Talking Clipboard is a text to speech software with inbuilt RSS reader. Just add the feed URL to the Manage Feed dialog box and you are subscribed to that RSS feed. Now you can start listening to your favorite RSS feed in Talking Clipboard, by selecting the feed subscription from the RSS drop down menu. All the latest news items will be displayed in the list view. You can select any particular news item and click the Play button, or press the multimedia play button on your keyboard to start listening to that news. It can also highlight the currently spoken word, for better readability and concentration.
How to read eBook using Talking Clipboard?
Talking Clipboard can read eBooks in ePub format. Just open an ePub file, like any other file format, and you will see an EBook menu. You can select various chapters of that EBook from that menu. Select any chapter and press the Play button on the toolbar or the play button on multimedia remote or keyboard. Talking Clipboard also comes with a CHM decompiler, to convert chm file to html files to be read with Talking Clipboard. For eBooks in any other format, you can use the free any2epub software from the calibre package.
What are Aliases, Pronunciations and Text Transformers in Talking Clipboard?
Talking Clipboard support SSML aliases and IPA pronunciations. It also supports regular expressions based text transformers, that modifies the input text using regular expression, before it is been added to a new tab. SSML aliases can define correct alias for any words, e.g. CSharp for C#, Microsoft Speech API for SAPI, World Wide Web for WWW, Doctor for Dr., etc. IPA pronunciation can define correct pronunciations for proper nouns e.g. aɪnstaɪn for Einstein, ɹəˈbɛːɹɾo for Roberto, etc. Text transformers can be used to remove unreadable text, advertisements or metadata from the text to be read, before it has been added to a new tab.
What is Clipboard Threshold?
Talking Clipboard can work in background, sitting in the system tray, watching for any text to be pasted on the clipboard. It will automatically start reading any text copied from any application. Now, let say you copied an email address for sending email, which you don't want to read. So, you specify a clipboard threshold, it is the minimum number of characters that needs to be copied on the clipboard for reading it automatically by Talking Clipboard. You can also add the clipboard to internal buffer, so that you can copy different text lines from the application and read it all at once.
What is One Button Read?
You can set a Hotkey, instead of monitoring clipboard. Thus when you select text in any other application and press this Hotkey, Talking Clipboard will automatically start reading that text, also the text will not be copied on the Clipboard. This is better than reading from Clipboard, as you many copy text many times, that you don't want to read. A Hotkey is better than a obtrusive floating toolbar and much faster than using a mouse to click any read button.
How to do batch conversion of text documents to audio files?
There are two ways to do batch conversion of text documents to audio files. The first one is through the GUI, from the tools menu open the Batch Conversion dialog and add the text documents to be converted to the list. The other way is through the command line, to convert .txt documents to .mp3 files. On the command prompt use parameter as /Batch "Folder Path". All the .txt files in that folder will be converted to .mp3 files and all the source .txt files will be deleted automatically. So, if you want to keep the .txt files, make sure to first, take a backup.
How is the media remote and multimedia keyboards supported?
Talking Clipboard supports your media buttons on the keyboard or media remote control. So, you can play, pause or stop reading using those buttons. You can also jump to the previous or next paragraph or line, using the seek forward/backward media buttons. You can also control the Talking Clipboard volume, or mute the sound from the media volume buttons.
How many words are there in the vocabulary builder?
More than 1400+ words are there in the vocabulary builder online database, which keeps on increasing.