YeoSoft Text to MP3 Speaker - User's Operation Guide

XML Voice Tags Guideline
(only for sapi 5 voices)

Complete Shortcut Key List: (Click to see the screenshot)

CTRL+O Open Text CTRL+F Find Del        Delete Selection
CTRL+S Save Text CTRL+H Replace CTRL+B Bold
CTRL+Q Quit the Program CTRL+Z Undo Last CTRL+I Italic
  CTRL+Y Redo Last CTRL+U Underline
F2         Speak
 CTRL+A Select All CTRL+T Bullet
F3         Pause CTRL+X Cut CTRL+L Align Left
F4         Stop CTRL+C Copy CTRL+E Center
CTRL+G Convert CTRL+V Paste CTRL+R Align Right

Global Toolbar (from left to right):

Open Get a text/rtf/eml/html/doc/pdf file to speak. You may also copy or type into the Text Viewer directly.
Audio Make text to audio conversion for the current text selection with current voice control settings.
Buy/Voices For Demo it's Buy button, leads to online purchase page. For registered version, it's Voices button, for quick visit to free voices and commerical voices.
Help Get to this help page for operation instruction.
About Check the current version number and register status.
Quit Close the program.

Voice Controls:

Play Start to speak the text from the cursor position.
Pause Pause / Resume speaking.
Stop Stop speaking.
Voice Select a speaking voice. Both SAPI 5 and SAPI 4 voices are listed together.
Format Select WAV, MP3, WMA or OGG as your output audio format.
Quality Select an audio quality from the dropdown list.
Volume Drag the slider down to increase the volume; up to decrease.
Speed Drag the slider down to quicken the speaking; up to slow.
Pitch Drag the slider down to higher the pitch; up to lower.
Reset Reset all settings of Voice, Format, Quality, Volume, Speed and Pitch to Default.

Text/Email/Web Switch :

Plain Tab Click this Tab to load a text/rtf file or input text directly into the Text Editor. To speak, select any part of text or just place the cursor where you want to start. Then click Speak.
Email Tab Click this Tab to load EML files saved from your Outlook Express. To speak, highlight the text you want to speak. Then click Speak.
Note: this feature requires that Internet Explorer is installed.
Web Tab Click this Tab to read the Internet by entering URL (with http://) and pressing Enter or click Open to load a html file. To speak, highlight the text you want to speak. Then click Speak.
Note: this feature requires that Internet Explorer is installed.

You may also read Word or PDF files by clicking Open to load a doc or pdf file in this tab. To speak, highlight the text you want to speak and press CTRL+C (important step) . Then click Speak.
Note: this feature requires that Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat Reader is installed.

Audio Info feature enables you to add some notes about this conversion, such as Title, Year, Author. This info tag can be read by your media application like Winamp.

1. Tags for Enhancement

To insert silence, add tag like this: <SILENCE MSEC="3000"/> (here "3000" is the silence duration in mili-seconds which you can change).

To pronounce a word letter by letter, wrap the word with the following tags: <SPELL>word</SPELL>

To pronounce a word with emphasis, wrap the word with the following tags: <EMPH>word</EMPH>

2. Custom Pronunciation

To define custom pronunciation for a specific word, please insert xml tags into text like this:

<pron sym="h eh 1 l ow & w er 1 l d ">Hello World</pron>
Note: spaces before and after "&" are required.

Below is a full list of all phonetic symbols for transcripting pronunciation.

Phoneme Symbol Example Transcription
aa Bob b aa b 1
ae bat b ae t 1
ah but b ah t 1
ao bought b ao t 1
aw down d aw n 1
ax about ax 0 b aw t 1
ay bite b ay t 1
b bet b eh t 1
ch church ch er ch 1
d dig d ih g
dh that dh ae t 1
eh bet b eh t 1
er bird b er d 1
ey bait b ey t 1
f fog f ao g 1
g got g aa t 1
h hot h aa t 1
ih bit b ih t 1
iy beat b iy t 1
jh jump jh ah m p 1
k cat k ae t 1
l lot l aa t 1
m Mom m aa m 1
n nod n aa d 1
ng sing s ih ng 1
ow boat b ow t 1
oy boy b oy 1
p pot p aa t 1
r rat r ae t 1
s sit s ih t 1
sh shut sh ah t 1
t top t aa p 1
th thick th ih k 1
uh book b uh k 1
uw boot b uw t 1
v vat v ae t 1
w won w ah n 1
y you y uw 1
z zoo z uw 1
zh measure m eh 1 zh er 0

Other Symbols

1 Primary stress
2 Secondary stress
- (hyphen) Syllable boundary
 &  Word boundary