Read aloud highlighted portions?

Tim Engwer

I wanted to have the computer read aloud from where I left off in a book but when I hit ctrl-r it starts from the beginning of the previous section that I already read.  I try highlighting the part I want it to read and it does the same.  So I let it reread that section but then the book didn't scroll to keep up with the words that were off the page so i scrolled manually and the reading stopped.  When I started it again it went back to the previous section again.  Is there anyway to have it read specific portions of you're choosing?  I did notice you can highlight what you want read in a bible.

JimTowler

I've reported this and related issues before.

For a Bible with verses, the Read-Aloud feature works quite well. (You can purchase "better" voices than the "free" ones that come with Windows.)

For anything that is page-based, it always starts from that page, and does NOT auto-scroll the locations except page-by-page.

For something that does not even have pages, I can't remember what it does. Maybe back to the start of a section, which is I think what you are reporting here.

I've asked for resources to have a breakdown at maybe paragraph-level for anything with only page or section markup.

I don't remember the exact answer, but I think they said they would look into it. Until then, I agree with you, the read-aloud feature is rather broken and not fully useful. This "bug" or lack-of-feature, makes it impossible to skip over some tables/charts/stuff and read from part-way down a page.

As you have found, if you manually move the page, the reading stops. The slider does not work on the audio tool for page-based books, so no fast-forward or skip.

My hope is that Logos will soon support down to paragraph level for Read-Aloud and other Navigation aspects of the application.