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ReadSpeaker Listen Button

ReadSpeaker allows you to listen to the Commission's website content - or you can download it to listen to later on your phone or MP3 player. As a user you don’t have to download anything.

How does it work?

You simply click the *Listen* button to listen to the webpage's main content:

Readspeaker page button - closed

An audio player appears (see image below) and ReadSpeaker starts reading the text of the webpage out loud.

Readspeaker page button open

In the player you can:

  • Pause/restart the reading
  • Stop the reading
  • Use the progress bar to navigate in the audio
  • Adjust the volume
  • Click the settings icon to adjust the behavior of the service
  • Click the download icon to download the audio file
  • Close the player

You can use tab/shift+tab to navigate inside the player and press enter to activate a certain button or link.

Listen to selected text

You can also select a part of the text that you want to listen to, and then press the pop-up Listen button that appears next to the mouse pointer. When you click the pop-up Listen button, an audio player appears (see the image below) and ReadSpeaker starts reading the text you have selected.

the Readspeaker expanded playable image graphic - click to play

Settings

In the settings menu, you can choose:

  • whether you want to have the text highlighted while read
  • whether you want the text highlighted on a word and sentence basis, sentence only, or word only
  • style and colors for the highlighting
  • whether to display the current sentence at the bottom of the page, with a larger font size and simultaneous text highlighting
  • whether you want the reading speed to be slow, medium, or fast
  • whether you want the page to scroll automatically to follow the highlighted text
  • whether you want the pop-up Listen button to be shown when text is selected, or
  • to restore all settings to original defaults

You can also listen to the settings by clicking the Listen button at the top right ​​of the Settings menu:


the Readspeaker control panel image oversize