ZoomText Keyboard key to turn speech on and off: F12 Keyboard shortcut to turn speech on and off: Alt + Shift + S Speech Speech Activating the speech button will open a drop-down menu which allows users to disable or enable speech, change the speaker from a list of recently used voice profiles, and launch the Speech menu. The tab has three sections: Speech, Echo, and Reading. The tab is also used to start the various reader functionalities.
Using the Reader tab, users can change settings that control how the ZoomText speech sounds, when it talks, and how quickly it talks. The ZoomText Reader Tab The ZoomText Reader tab can be found in between the Magnifier and Tools tabs. Some examples of synthesized voices you might be familiar with include Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, Amazon’s Alexa, or possible good ol’ Microsoft Sam (the default text-to-speech voice from Windows 2000 and XP).
Using the reading functionality in ZoomText, you can have the text on the screen read to you by a synthesized voice. You might have heard of screen reading programs such as JAWS, NVDA, Window-Eyes, and Dolphin. Screen readers are software applications that will attempt to identify, interpret, and read the information being presented on the computer’s screen. Using the Reader Functionality in ZoomText While ZoomText 10 is primarily a magnification program, it does include some screen reader functionality.
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