Read aloud highlighted portions?
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.
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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.
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Work arounds --
Copy the text of interest to a web page and read with a browser that can read aloud, for example:
early versions of opera
extension to ChromeYou can also use a file reading program - I use Read Aloud to read a portion of a text. There are others.
Blessings,
FloydPastor-Patrick.blogspot.com
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Floyd Johnson said:
Work arounds --
Copy the text of interest to a web page and read with a browser that can read aloud, for example:
early versions of opera
extension to ChromeYou can also use a file reading program - I use Read Aloud to read a portion of a text. There are others.
I am using TTSReader and it works well. I am hoping Logos fixes this feature at some point so I can activate reading from within the program wherever I want to start the reading from.
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