Adobe Reader 7: Listening to Your PDFs
October 8th, 2006
Adobe Reader allows you to listen to your PDF instead of reading it. Sometimes this does indeed prove to be useful.
Here the keyboard shortcuts:
- Ctrl+Shift+b: Listen to the entire document
- Ctrl+Shift+v: Listen to a certain page
- Ctrl+Shift+e: Stop listening
- Ctrl+Shift+c: Pause
October 10th, 2006 at 7:45 am
I just scared everybody in my house by doing this. What a creepy computer voice.
If you want to try it out… you can listen to this very boring tax form:
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf#search=%22pdf%22
October 10th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
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October 11th, 2006 at 7:28 am
[…] While checking my aggregator, I found a recent posting on the Tech Recipes blog about Adobe Reader’s ability to translate text into speech. A short little post, it just explained the simple commands for listening to, pausing, and ending the read out loud feature. I had to test it for myself, so I pulled up this creative lesson plan on copyright infringement and started listening. Yes, it had the same “creepy” computer voice (officially known as Microsoft Sam) that we’ve heard since the late 80s, but it spoke in a rather fluent, natural cadence that made listening to the document fairly easy. After a bit more poking around I found that if the PDF is opened up in Adobe Reader, and not just in your web browser, you can even go into preferences, click on Reading, and change the pitch of the voice, the volume, and even alter the number of words per minute that are spoken in order to slow down or speed up the rate of speech. It even has a smart feature that allows the voice to read from left-to-right or to infer reading order from the document (quite helpful in an outlined paper). Many schools have Adobe Reader pre-installed on their machines, which makes it an economical tool as well. […]
October 12th, 2006 at 7:54 am
Also available in Acrobat Reader 6…
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November 27th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
What an excellent feature..I had no idea that you could do this. It could help a lot students with special needs in the classroom.
March 13th, 2007 at 12:07 am
that is great contribution and great fruit. But expext much more enhancements.
God bless U
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June 11th, 2008 at 3:13 am
Really very cool feature…..
But need to be enhanced the voice quality so that we can listen it more easily while on the move…..
If possible hats off to Adobe…..!!!!
–Prashant