Technical data

4.1.4. Text To Speech Player
4.1.4.1. General information
To complete the usability, Audio provides a Text To Speech Player. This application
enables you to read text files in TXT. Milestone 312 works with the popular Text to Speech
engine of Acapela which provides a big collection of different languages and voices.
4.1.4.2. Use Audio's Text to Speech Player
Press the “Selector” button on the front end until you hear the announcement “Audio”. Now
you are in the correct device.
Attention: If you have pushed “Selector” on M312 and it does not react, it might have been
in sleep mode. In this case just push the “Play” button and it will react. If you still have no
reaction, please check that the keyboard is not locked, volume is on and the battery has
power.
To use Text to Speech you have to download a text file to Milestone 312. For more
information about the downloading process on M312 please have a look in “Data
management via computer”, in this manual.
Be aware that when you select a text file, you hear the name of the file first. By pushing
“Play” you start this file. Besides this difference you can handle a text file similar to a music
file. Accordingly you can jump to the next and previous file with the arrow buttons, use
pause function with “Play“, change reading speed with the combination “Selector” and an
arrow button, adjust additional settings in the Menu under Local Settings etc.
When you push and hold an arrow button during playback of a file then you can also kind
of fast forward or rewind the text file. You can hear a click in periodic time intervals. With
each click you jump one step in the file. How big such a step is, depends on what is
adjusted in the Menu under Local Settings. You have the choice between “Screen“ (which
is 25 lines), “Paragraph” or “Sentence“.
Hint: Besides changing the step size for rewind or fast forward under Local Settings there
is also a direct way. During playback of a text file you can switch the step size with “Rec”
or “Mode”.
Another important function for navigation in a text file is Fast Jump. It allows you to enter a
file in different sectors. Information about this navigation function is received under “Fast
Jump” in this manual.
4.1.4.3. Further voices and languages
Besides your local language, Milestone 312 also enables the reading of text files in other
languages and voices. Therefore open the Local Settings of the Menu and go to the
setting “Language“. By changing the languages (and voices) with the arrow buttons
Milestone 312 also switches the prompts into the appropriate language.
In case you would like to add additional languages and voices on your Milestone 312
please go to the Support area of www.bones.ch.
Attention: Wrong pronunciation of a text can be the result of a wrongly selected language.
Please adjust the language of the text file in the Local Settings of the Menu.
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