Listen to your PDFs
I received the following information from a co-worker. I didn’t know that a feature like this existed within the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
If the speech API is on your PC, you can listen to your PDFs.
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Here are the shortcuts to use when you have an open document:
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Ctrl+Shift+B - to hear the entire document
Ctrl+Shift+V - to hear the page
Ctrl+Shift+C - to resume
Ctrl+Shift+E - to stop
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Change the reading preferences:
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Edit –> Preferences –> Reading
The default voice is (Microsoft Sam).
June 29th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Can you confirm this works?
June 29th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
I tested it out and it works well. I used Adobe Reader 7.0
June 29th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
cool
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