textHELPRead&Write Gold
version 9
Using digital talking books with…
Read and Write toolbar:
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Click and hold blue title bar to move the toolbar around your screen
Drag toolbar to top of your screen to “dock” it
Click the anchor tool to “undock” the toolbar
Switching toolbars
Read&Write Gold has 6 toolbars to choose from.
1.From the TextHelp menu, choose “Current toolbar”
2.Select the toolbar you want
“My Features” toolbar can be customized
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The Reading Features toolbar
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To find the Daisy Reader program:
From the textHELP menu, choose: Current Toolbar, thenReading Features
Daisy Reader Program
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DaisyReaderprogramwindow
Open a Daisy book
When you first launch the Daisy Reader program, you are prompted to find a folder containing a Daisy book.
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Use the “plus” button to find your Daisy book’s folder
When you find your books folder, click the OK button
Open another Daisy book
Once you have opened Daisy Reader, you may open a different Daisy book by:
1.Opening the File Menu
2.Choosing Open
3.Navigate to the book’s folder using the Browse to Folder window
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Close a Daisy book
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From the File menu, choose Exit
Or…Use the window close button (top right corner)
Reading text
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Read the next passage
StopPause / restart the reading
Read the text
Read previous passage
Read from a selected spot on the page
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Highlight a section of text on the page
Then, click the Play button
Reading Options
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To the right of the Play button is the drop-down menu arrow that will open the reading options menu.
In the Play menu, you may choose to read by word, sentence, or paragraph.
Click Automatically read next block of text for continuous reading.
Speech options
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Change voice
Change speed
Change volume
Test new settings, then… Click OK when finished
Navigation by table of contents
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One page of the Daisy book is displayed at a time, and you may use the table of contents to scroll to the page you want to view, then double-click to jump directly to that page.
Book navigation tools (lower right corner of screen)
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Move to last page in book.
Move to previous page.
Move to next page.
Move to first page in book.
Display options
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From the Display menu, choose Display Options
Change font type and size
Change text and background colors
Bookmarks
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Use the drop-down box to show a list of the current bookmarks
Go To the bookmark shown in the bookmark list
Place a bookmark at the current location
Erasebookmark
Find text
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Click the Search tool to scan the book for this text.
Type in the text you want to search for in this book.
Choose whether the search should match case, and/or find whole words.
NIMAS conversion tool
NOTE: When using the NIMAS conversion tool, you may choose to convert a NIMAS file to a split HTML or a split XML. Typically, a NIMAS file often contains in one large page or document. Using this tool, you may split it up by pages, and, you may output it as an HTML file, or as a typical Daisy book in the XML format.
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From the textHELP menu, choose Convert NIMAS to HTML…
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2. Browse to find a folder to put the converted book into. (suggestion: create a new folder before starting the Converter)
1. Browse your computer to find a NIMAS book
3. Choose whether to convert to HTML or Daisy (XML)
4. Click Convert
Reading .html, .rtf and .pdf books
What about books not in the DAISY format?
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.rtf (rich text format) books will open in your word processor (e.g. MSWord) and the Read&Write tools will read the text aloud.
.pdf books may be “locked” or “unlocked”. If locked, the text cannot be selected or highlighted. Unlocked pdf books may be read with PDFAloud. Locked pdf books can be read with textHELPs Screenshot Reader.
.html format books open in your web browser. The Read&Write reading tools
will read the text aloud.
Speech Maker – text to audio files
1. Select a block of text.
2. Click the Speech Maker button in the Research Features toolbar.
3. Text will appear in the dialog box shown here.
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Callout Text box
Speech Maker continued…
4. Make any changes in the Voice Settings box. Click Next.
5. Use the Save As button to name your file and choose a storage location.
6. Choose MP3, then click Finish
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AudioPlus books
Are you a member of RFB&D (Recordings for Blind and Dyslexic)?
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textHELP Read&Write Gold will open and play AudioPlus books from RFB&D using their human recorded narration.
The development of this project by the AIM Consortium and the Michigan Department of Education was funded by Grant # H327S070003 from the U. S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs. The contents of this project are not exhaustive and inclusion does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education, the Michigan Department of Education or the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)