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Using digital talking books with…
textHELP
Read&Write Gold
version 9
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Read and Write toolbar:
Click and hold blue title
bar to move the toolbar
around your screen
Drag toolbar to top of
your screen to “dock” it
Click the anchor tool to
“undock” the toolbar
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Read&Write Gold has
6 toolbars to choose
from.
Switching
toolbars
1. From the TextHelp
menu, choose
“Current toolbar”
2. Select the toolbar
you want
“My Features” toolbar
can be customized
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The Reading Features toolbar
To find the Daisy
Reader program:
From the
textHELP menu,
choose:
Current Toolbar,
then
Reading Features
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Daisy Reader Program
Daisy
Reader
program
window
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Open a Daisy book
When you first launch
the Daisy Reader
program, you are
prompted to find a
folder containing a
Daisy book.
Use the “plus”
button to find
your Daisy
book’s folder
When you find your
books folder, click
the OK button
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Open another Daisy book
Once you have opened
Daisy Reader, you may
open a different Daisy
book by:
1. Opening the File
Menu
2. Choosing Open
3. Navigate to the book’s
folder using the
Browse to Folder
window
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Close a Daisy book
From the
File menu,
choose Exit
Or…
Use the window
close button
(top right corner)
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Reading text
Read the
text
Read
previous
passage
Pause / restart
the reading
Stop
Read the
next
passage
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Read from a selected spot on
the page
Highlight a section
of text on the page
Then, click the
Play button
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Reading Options
To the right of the Play button
is the drop-down menu arrow
that will open the reading
options menu.
In the Play menu, you may
choose to read by word,
sentence, or paragraph.
Click Automatically read
next block of text for
continuous reading.
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Speech options
Change voice
Change speed
Change volume
Test new settings, then…
Click OK when finished
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Navigation by table of
contents
One page of the
Daisy book is
displayed at a
time, and you may
use the table of
contents to scroll
to the page you
want to view, then
double-click to
jump directly to
that page.
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Book navigation tools
(lower right corner of screen)
Move to
first page in
book.
Move to
previous
page.
Move to
last page
in book.
Move to next
page.
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Display options
Change font
type and size
From the Display
menu, choose
Display Options
Change text and
background colors
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Bookmarks
Use the dropdown box to
show a list of the
current
bookmarks
Go To the
bookmark
shown in
the
bookmark
list
Erase
bookmark
Place a
bookmark at the
current location
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Find text
Type in the
text you want
to search for
in this book.
Choose whether
the search should
match case, and/or
find whole words.
Click the Search
tool to scan the
book for this
text.
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NIMAS conversion
tool
From the textHELP
menu, choose Convert
NIMAS to HTML…
NOTE: When using the NIMAS conversion tool,
you may choose to convert a NIMAS file to a
split HTML or a split XML. Typically, a
NIMAS file often contains in one large page
or document. Using this tool, you may split it
up by pages, and, you may output it as an
HTML file, or as a typical Daisy book in the
XML format.
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1. Browse your
computer to find a
NIMAS book
2. Browse to find a
folder to put the
converted book into.
(suggestion: create a
new folder before
starting the
Converter)
3. Choose
whether to
convert to HTML
or Daisy (XML)
4. Click
Convert
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Reading .html, .rtf and .pdf books
What about books not
in the DAISY format?
.rtf (rich text format)
books will open in your
word processor (e.g.
MSWord) and the
Read&Write tools will read
the text aloud.
.html format books open
in your web browser. The
Read&Write reading tools
will read the text aloud.
.pdf books may be “locked”
or “unlocked”. If locked, the
text cannot be selected or
highlighted. Unlocked pdf
books may be read with
PDFAloud. Locked pdf
books can be read with
textHELPs Screenshot
Reader.
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Speech Maker – text to audio files
1. Select a block of
text.
Callout
Text box
2. Click the Speech
Maker button in the
Research Features
toolbar.
3. Text will appear in
the dialog box
shown here.
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Speech Maker
continued…
4. Make any changes
in the Voice Settings
box. Click Next.
5. Use the Save As
button to name your
file and choose a
storage location.
6. Choose MP3, then
click Finish
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AudioPlus books
Are you a member of
RFB&D (Recordings
for Blind and
Dyslexic)?
textHELP
Read&Write Gold
will open and play
AudioPlus books
from RFB&D using
their human
recorded narration.
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The development of this project by the AIM
Consortium and the Michigan Department of
Education was funded by Grant #
H327S070003 from the U. S. Department of
Education, Office of Special Education
Programs. The contents of this project are
not exhaustive and inclusion does not imply
endorsement by the U.S. Department of
Education, the Michigan Department of
Education or the Center for Applied Special
Technology (CAST)