![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Use roman numerals, which TTS logically says as words.Put stops in capital letter vowel initialisms that we say by letter-name, if you do not want them spoken as words, e.g.Dyslexic listeners need to hear them, for navigation in the file and in the printed copy. Put page numbers, manually, at the top of each page.TTS does not speak automated numbering in Word. For clock times, 12.45 would sound like a decimal, so put a colon, as in 12:45.If a human reader would pause and let his or her voice drop, we need to indicate this in text. Use Styles for headings and sub-headings, to create bookmarks for PDF files and Navigation Pane for Word, for navigation purposes.Please listen to what you write, and remember that the voices vary in their pronunciation. We cannot avoid some ‘funnies’, so we should do everything possible to amend ones that we can express more suitably. The speech engines are improving, but still say some odd things. Here are ten important points about writing for Text to Speech (TTS) software and audio files. See below for full details and samples in HTML, and also Word and PDF versions, and an Excel file of trials with the various voices. The 10 points were published in Dyslexia Contact, September 2013. ![]()
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