Voice Text Editor 4

User Guide for VoiceText Editor 4 (version 4.1)

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Contents
1. Overview ........................................................................................................................... 3

2. Screen Layout and Menu ................................................................................................ 4

2.1. Full Screen Layout .................................................................................................................... 4
2.2. Home Button.............................................................................................................................. 5
2.2.1. Preview and Print a Document ................................................................................................ 6
2.3. Quick Menu ............................................................................................................................... 7
2.4. Home Menu ............................................................................................................................... 8
2.4.1. Voice Controls............................................................................................................................ 8
2.4.2. Voice Options ............................................................................................................................. 9
2.4.3. Export Audio ........................................................................................................................... 10
2.4.4. Tool ............................................................................................................................................................ 10
2.5. SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) Menu ........................................................... 11
2.6. Edit Menu ................................................................................................................................ 12
2.6.1. Clipboard ................................................................................................................................. 12
2.6.2. Find/Replace ............................................................................................................................ 13
2.6.3. Font .......................................................................................................................................... 13
2.6.4. Editor ....................................................................................................................................... 14
2.7. Help Menu ............................................................................................................................... 15
2.7.1. About ........................................................................................................................................ 16
2.8. Setup ......................................................................................................................................... 17
2.8.1. General ..................................................................................................................................... 17
2.8.2. Advanced ................................................................................................................................. 18
2.9. Status Bar ................................................................................................................................ 19

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1. Overview
VoiceText Editor 4 is a text-to-speech solution engineered to help users tailor the text
contents and turn them into a vocally produced-synthesized speech. It is armed with full
of tools to make it easy and simple to do the synthesizing process and sound out the texts
into a variety of synthesized voices.

The product also offers a set of menu selections to utilize the Speech Synthesis Markup
Language (SSML), standard for speech synthesis, making it easy for users to tweak the
contents in their favorable way possible. Other features to insert audio clip or merge it with
other contents and the likes are part of the solution so, even a few selections are enough to
create various works.

Further, ReadSpeaker-owned voice engines can be loaded up and dynamically synced to

the solution for use in speech synthesis.

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2. Screen Layout and Menu
2.1. Full Screen Layout

No. Name Description

1 Manu bar Include ‘Home’ button, quick access menu and ribbon bar and offers features to edit
and synthesize and others for users
2 Text window Where a text appears either by keyboard or through the menu selections
3 Status bar Where information for users is displayed, including reading progress, encoding, the
number of characters and etc.

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2.2. Home Button

No. Name Description

1 New Add a new window
2 Open Open a text file (*.txt)
3 Save Save a currently opened file
4 Save As… Save a currently opened file under a different name
5 Export to Audio Save a currently opened file into an audio file
6 Batch Converter Save a batch of multiple text files into a specific type of audio file
7 Print Print a current file or for print setup
8 Close Close a opened file
8 Recent Document Show a list of documents recently opened
9 Exit Exit the program

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2.2.1. Preview and Print a Document

No. Name Description

1 Quick Print Print a current document with default setups
2 Print Preview Preview a current document before printing
3 Print Setup Display printer setup window

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2.3. Quick Menu
Quick menu selections to manage a document

No. Name Description

1 New Add a new window
2 Open Open a text file (*.txt)
3 Save Save a currently opened file
4 Quick Print Print a currently opened document with default setups

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2.4. Home Menu
Includes a menu to select installed TTS engines and control features in synthesizing a text and
offers general features: user dictionary, license verification and etc.

2.4.1. Voice Controls

No. Name Description

1 Read Read a text on the window from the beginning in a selected voice
2 From Start Read from the beginning in a selected voice
3 From Cursor Read from a position where the cursor sits in a selected voice
4 Pause/Resume Pause once clicked while the text being read (‘Pause’ changed to ‘Resume’ if clicked)
Read again from a paused position if ‘Resume’ clicked
5 Stop Stop reading
6 Voice Name Select a voice for synthesis or audio file conversion
7 SSML Tick to apply SSML tags
8 Highlight Tick to highlight words and sentences: the words and sentences being read are
highlighted in color, making it easy to read along as you listen.
* It may be possible for the highlighting function to get out of sync when rSpeak
engine’s user dictionary (‘User Dic’ on menu) is in use.

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2.4.2. Voice Options

No. Name Description

1 Speed Set a value in speed
2 Pitch Set a value in pitch
3 Volume Set a value in volume
4 Period Pause Set a value in period pause
5 Comma Pause Set a value in comma pause
6 Reset Reset values to defaults in speed, pitch, volume, period pause and comma pause

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2.4.3. Export Audio

No. Name Description

1 Export Audio Save a file into a selected audio file format
2 File Format Select a file format to save a file

2.4.4. Tool

No. Name Description

1 User Dic Run a user dictionary paired to a selected voice engine
2 Setup Run a setup window

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2.5. SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) Menu

No. Name Description

1 Audio Insert audio tag
2 Break Insert break tag
3 Emphasis Insert emphasis tag
4 Mark Insert mark tag
5 P Insert P tag
6 Phoneme Insert phoneme tag
7 Prosody Insert prosody tag
8 SayAs Insert say-as tag
9 S Insert S tag
10 Speak Insert speak tag
11 Sub Insert sub tag
12 Voice Insert voice tag
13 Lexicon Insert lexicon tag

* Refer to SSML reference documentation for more information about SSML tags

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2.6. Edit Menu
Offers features: cut, paste, find a document or part of it and etc.

2.6.1. Clipboard

No. Name Description

1 Paste Paste or duplicate full or part of text in document
2 Cut Cut a selected part of text
3 Copy Copy a selected part of text
4 Select All Select all the text
5 Undo Undo the last action
6 Redo Redo previously undone action

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2.6.2. Find/Replace

No. Name Description

1 Find Find a wanted word or sentence
2 Find Next Find the next wanted word or sentence
3 Replace Replace a word or sentence with another

2.6.3. Font

No. Name Description

1 Font Change a font
2 Font size Change a font size
3 Font color Change a fond color
4 Background color Change a background color

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2.6.4. Editor

No. Name Description

1 Display Line Numbers Tick to display line numbers on the window
2 Go To Line Move to a certain line on the window

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2.7. Help Menu
Offers information about the Voice Text Editor 4, its manual and engines installed to the user’s
PC

No. Name Description

1 License Website Run a website for license verification process
2 Manual Display the manual in PDF viewer
3 About Open the information window

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2.7.1. About
Shows the Voice Text Editor 4 information, user PC Host ID and detailed information about
installed engines in present and others

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2.8. Setup
2.8.1. General

No. Name Description

1 Speed Set a value in speed
2 Pitch Set a value in pitch
3 Volume Set a value in volume
4 Period Pause Set a value in period pause
5 Comma Pause Set a value in comma pause
6. Repeatation Select a number on how many times a full text or part of it is read
7 Reset Reset values to defaults in speed, pitch, volume, period pause and comma pause

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2.8.2. Advanced

No. Name Description

1 Sampling Rate Select a sampling rate to be set in ’Export Audio’
2 External Convert Tool Path Select a path where a converted audio file being saved into in ‘Export Audio’

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2.9. Status Bar
Displays information about what goes on the window

No. Name Description

1 Progress status
2 Encoding
3 Total Line/ length
4 Current Line/Column/Position
5 OVR/CAP/NUM
6 Zoom in/out
Display where is being read
Display a current document encoding information
Display the total number of lines and full length
Display current line, column and position
Display keyboard INS and whether CapsLock and Num Lock keys activated
Display a current document in zoom-in or zoom-out mode

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