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ReadingBar for Internet Explorer^®

• This is the Help file for ReadingBar. For more help on the options you may set, please click here -> Options.
  
  
• For installation notes, or if you can't see ReadingBar click here.
  
  
• Requirements:

  ReadingBar requires Internet Explorer 5.5 or newer, Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP, 40MB free disk space, 128mb RAM.
  
  AT&T Natural Voices requires 500 Mhz Processor, 128mb RAM (256mb recommended), 500MB free disk space (1 Gig recommended). Note that on systems with less than 256MB Natural Voices can have slight pauses when reading aloud and may hesitate when first played or recorded.
  
         Listen to samples of AT&T Natural Voices

  
  
• Printed documentation as a PDF file click here.
  
  
• For Software License click here.

VCR Controls

• Play - Hint: select a bit of text to establish starting position
• Pause
• Stop
• Skip Forward
• Play selected text only
• Play from beginning
• Record

Recording

1. Go to the web page you want to record text from
2. Press the red Record button
3. Press Play (or Play Selection)
4. Follow instructions to save the .wav or .mp3 file
5. Wait for recording to finish
6. You can optionally preview the file

Tip!
To make the Record button stay depressed for continuous recording, you can hold the [Shift] key down and click on Record.

Text-Only View

Reading Window

• Type in text to be read
• Copy and Paste text
• Open and Save files (click on Open icon or Save icon)
• Monitor the Windows clipboard, and automatically play text when text is copied from any other program
• Pop-up the the Reading Window (click on Pop Up button)

Tip!
To have ReadingBar automatically read text when the text is copied to the Windows Clipboard, follow these steps:

1. Launch Internet Explorer
2. Click on the Reading Window button on ReadingBar
3. You will see the ReadingWindow, now click on the Pop-up button (optional step)
4. Check the option to "Automatically monitor Clipboard and Play"

Now ReadingBar will paste any text you copy from any software program, into the ReadingWindow and read it for you.

To try this out follow these steps:

1. Launch any program (like Microsoft Word)
2. Open any document
3. Select some text with mouse
4. From the Edit menu, select Copy
5. The text you copied will appear in the ReadingWindow and start playing
   
   Note: You can minimize the Reading Window, and it will still work. Many ReadingBar users keep the Reading Window minimized and just have text read to them aloud.

Add A Spell Checker For Free

ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries) - and of course ReadingBar.

   www.iespell.com

Magnify - Zoom any web page

Voices

Volume and Speed of Voice

Tip!
To reset the speed of the voice press the [Shift] key down and click on the Speed icon.

Help

ReadingBar Tools/Options

Tip!
Be sure to check out the many Options for making ReadingBar even better. For example, you can add your own custom pronunciations, change the size of the toolbar and much more.

• Options - Set many useful options for ReadingBar
• Translate - Use the Internet to translate web page or selected text to another language
• Look Up In Dictionaries - Use the Internet to look up words in dictionary
• Buy Now - Purchase ReadingBar
• Unlock ReadingBar - Enter the Registration Code for ReadingBar after you purchase it
• Help
• www.readplease.com
• About ReadingBar - This will show you version of ReadingBar and copyright information

Important Installation Note - Do you see the ReadingBar above?

You may have to change some Internet Explorer settings to use ReadingBar.

Here is how (see screen shots below):

1. If your toolbars are "locked" in position, you can unlock them by clicking on the View menu, select Toolbar and uncheck the option beside Lock the toolbars.
   
   
2. If ReadingBar doesn't have a check mark beside it, then click on it. You should now see all or part of ReadingBar below your main Internet Explorer Toolbar.
   
   
3. With your mouse, grab ahold of the ReadingBar wherever it is (it should be partially visible), and with your mouse - drag and drop the ReadingBar to a convenient location (see images below).

Notes:

• Make sure ReadingBar is not positioned to the right or left of another toolbar.
  
• Older versions of Internet Explorer call all their add-on toolbars "Radio". So if you see two 'Radio' options, click on the second one. If you have this problem, you may want to update your version of Internet Explorer. Either way, the Readingbar will work properly.

AT&T Natural Voices

Tip!
AT&T Natural Voices comes with its own powerful pronunciation editor complete with help file. The editor file is WinDictEdit.exe and the help file is called wdehelp.chm and may be found in your Program Files folder as shown here:
    C:\Program Files\ATTNaturalVoices\TTS1.4\Desktop\bin