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Welcome to this how-to video for ZoomText 10.
Today we’re going to walk you through how to use ZoomText Recorder.
With Recorder, you can turn text from documents, webpages, emails or other sources into audio
recordings that you can transfer to your mobile device and listen to at your convenience.
Here’s how it works…
Before we can record something, we’re going to need to select and copy some text to the
Windows clipboard.
Let’s go ahead and open a news article on the web. From here, I’m simply going to
click and hold my left mouse button down and select the text in the article. Now to copy
the text I can press CTRL+C on the keyboard, or right click and choose Copy.
Then all I’ll need to do is bring up the ZoomText toolbar and click on Recorder. Here
you’ll be presented with a dialog box that allows you to choose your recording options.
First, there are 3 different destinations…
File, which allows you to save the recording wherever you’d like on your computer in
either WAV or WMA format.
iTunes, meaning the recording will be automatically imported into your iTunes library as an MP3
in its own playlist called, “ZoomText Recorder” and lastly Windows Media Player, which is
similar to iTunes and it will import the recording into your Windows Media Player library as
a WMA file in its own playlist called, “ZoomText Recorder”
In the next field, you can rename the track. By default, the track name will be the first
few words of the text you had copied.
You can also change the track location if you’re exporting out to a file by clicking
on the Browse button.
When you’re ready, simply click on the Record Text button to record the file. Recordings
generally take about 10-15 seconds per page of text to record.
Underneath the Record text Button you’ll see the Preview and Capture area, where you
will see a visual preview of the text you’ve copied, a Listen to Preview button which will
play up to the first 400 words of text, and Capture clipboard which will retrieve any
text you’ve copied to the clipboard since you originally opened the Recorder dialog.
Lastly, by clicking on the Show Synthesizer Settings button you can adjust the voice you
want the audio file to be recorded in.
Let’s go ahead and see how it works exporting
to iTunes.
Now that we’ve shown you how to use Recording exclusively by using your mouse, we’re going
to show you how using hotkeys can tremendously increase your recording efficiency.
This time, we’re going to open a Word document we want to have read. Now, let’s say I want
to read this entire long document…instead of selecting all the text, I’ll press CTRL+A
to select text in the document, and then press CTRL+CAPS+S to immediately start Recorder
from my selection.
Now I’m presented with the Recorder dialog and can simply press ALT+R to start recording.
Note that recorder will remember your previous settings so you won’t have to change them
each time you open the dialog.
While ZoomText is Recording, you’re free to go about other tasks. A tone will indicate
when the recording is done and automatically open iTunes.
For more information, or to purchase your own copy of ZoomText 10, visit our website
at www.aisquared.com, or call us toll free at (800) 859-0270.