Listening Practice - Patsy

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Where do you find " testaloud " ?

M.

[Guest guest]

I have a MAC and it won't play Microsoft dvd's.

Any suggestions?

M.

[Guest guest]

Hi,

While using the TextAloud, too often I used to find

myself cheating - rathter than actually hear the

highlighted word I started reading the text ahead that

would put me few words ahead of the speaker. Changing

the colors helped me overcome this. I set the

'NormalForeground' to the lightest gray and the

'HighlightBackground' to bright red. So all I see on

screen is the word being spoken. Although once in a

while when a short word is spoken too fast the

highlighter skips that word, but my hearing with CI is

good enough to pick up those short words. I haven't

looked into MS Reader, but I am sure that tool would

have similar color optins.

Aravind

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Someone posted the link on this site a while ago.

TextAloud can be downloaded at

http://www.nextup.com/TextAloud/index.html

Aravind

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This is just a 15 day trial version that is free.. After that the

cost is $29.95. So if you want to just check it out.. you can try

before you buy!

cheers,

Silly MI

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[Guest guest]

Thanks for sharing, I learned something new. I'm reluctant to

download " nagware. "

How does it compare with Microsoft's Reader? Does TextAloud

irritiatingly say aloud the punctuation marks like Reader? I don't

want to hear the words " semicolon " , " period " , " comma " a gazillion

times when I practice listening to a novel.

Thanks,

Lehfeldt

activated 12/04

prelingually profoundly deaf

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> This is just a 15 day trial version that is free.. After that the

> cost is $29.95. So if you want to just check it out.. you can try

> before you buy!

> cheers,

> Silly MI

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Yes - it is a bit irritating. But for the most part I

am satisfied. I see that these can be customozed. Also

initially I had to get the pareameters set by my

normal hearing son so the speech is less robotic.

Aravind

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<Lehfeldt@...> wrote:

> Thanks for sharing, I learned something new. I'm

> reluctant to

> download " nagware. "

>

> How does it compare with Microsoft's Reader? Does

> TextAloud

> irritiatingly say aloud the punctuation marks like

> Reader? I don't

> want to hear the words " semicolon " , " period " ,

> " comma " a gazillion

> times when I practice listening to a novel.

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> Thanks,

>

> Lehfeldt

> activated 12/04

> prelingually profoundly deaf

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> On 5/30/06, <silly1@...> wrote:

> > This is just a 15 day trial version that is free..

> After that the

> > cost is $29.95. So if you want to just check it

> out.. you can try

> > before you buy!

> > cheers,

> > Silly MI

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> > In , Aravind Akella

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[Guest guest]

Mike thank you that sounds wonderful. patsy