Some update-suggestions

[Melker63]

1: Copied texts still often requires a fair amount of manual pre-editing in 'TextAloud' before hitting the 'Speak text to file' button. For example:

- Paragraph-headings often tends to merge with the bulk of the text. Better paragraph-heading recognition is needed - preferebly with optional auto-insert [Caption Pause Interval] directly before and after.

- No easy/fast way to get rid of sequential page-numbering by using Replace, as far as I know. Or alternatively: any reasonably short number centered and alone on a rove could be identified as page-number; converted to:

[Paragraph Pause Interval] page [number] [Paragraph Pause Interval]

2: A rightclick "Insert beep-sound" would be nice. This sometimes comes in handy in order to alert the listener (me) to pay special attention - here comes that important part.

[Melker63]

"- No easy/fast way to get rid of sequential page-numbering by using Replace, as far as I know."

Come to think of it - I just want above. The rest is not needed since the page number read-outs comes at the end of the page - not the beginning, which would have maked more sense.

[D.Leikin]

Perhaps, the following quote from the latest Jim’s post can help on that

Give this regular expression a try:

Word:
{{re=\s*(\r\n)+p\. \d+\s*(\r\n)+}}

Pronunciation:
<s>

\s* is allowing for spaces that might be present, and (\r\n)+ is looking for one or more carriage return/linefeeds. The string "p\. d+" is the page number.

[Melker63]

Thanks! By the way: then I said "the rest is not needed" I was only refeering to the page-number readout. Better paragraph-heading separation (with pause) and that rightclick 'Insert beeb-sound" idea is still on my wishlist.

[D.Leikin]

Looks quite possible during live playback in TextAloud.

Just copy the following tag

{{audio=c:\path_to_your_beep_file\beep.wav}}

to the clipboard and then insert this tag where needed - just right-click in TextAloud's window and select "Paste".

If you have Acapela voice(s) I'd recommend giving a try to using the word hmm for the beep - it sounds cool.

[doug4117]

I like that audio tag...I could do a lot with it. But is there a way to make it play into an MP3 file? When I try Speak To File it reads the letters of the command...it doesn't add the sound in the WAV to the rest of the MP3'd text.

[D.Leikin]

If not mistaken, audio tags are only supported during live playback in TextAloud. However, it seems quite possible to convert audio-tagged articles to MP3 by using some recording software (e.g., Total Recorder) capable of recording sound reproduced by other programs.