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=""/> (here "" 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