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Speechify is a reading and writing solution for those who prefer to listen to their Word documents, webpages, or PDF files instead of reading in a traditional manner. Speechify features visual highlighting of spoken text, the conversion of scanned documents into text documents, word prediction support, highlighting and highlight extraction, and the conversion of text documents into audio formats.
Tips & Tricks to Know
Trick: Use SCRIBE to perform additional OCR (optical character recognition) so the text reads more smoothly
If you notice your PDF document isn’t reading well - or words are are being spelled out - use SCRIBE to fine tune the file.
- Go to SCRIBE
- In Step 1 - Upload your document, choose the file that you want to improve, then click "Upload"
- In Step 2 - Select output format, select "Accessibility conversion"
- In Step 3 - Specify accessibility conversion options, select "pdf – Tagged PDF (image over text)"
- In Step 4 - Enter email address and submit request, enter your Stanford email address. In 5-20 minutes, you will receive an email from pony@sensusaccess.com with a link to download the OCR’ed file
- Add the edited file to your Speechify library
Tip: Skip URLs, headers, footers and other similar items
- Sign in to app.speechify.com using your Speechify account credentials - preferably using a Chromium browser
- Open the file that you want to listen to
- Access "More" on the left side toolbar and navigate to "Skip Content"
- Click on the check box next to the content that you want to skip
- You can skip content such as headers, footers, brackets, braces, citations, parentheses and URLs within the document
- Or click on "Skip All" to skip all categories of content as listed above
- This feature will let the web app to skip content in your document, based on your preference
Tip: Enable dark mode
- Sign in to app.speechify.com using your Speechify account credentials - preferably using a Chromium browser
- Open the file that you want to listen to
- Click "More" on the left side toolbar and enable the "Dark Mode" toggle under the Display section
Trick: Gradually increase your listening speed
- Open the file that you want to listen to
- Click on the "Speed" option with the face on the left side toolbar. This button also displays the speed that is currently set for your program
- Access "Increase speed automatically" at the bottom to enable a feature intended to help you increase your productivity by gradually increasing the reading speed
Tip: Auto-scroll the document as it is read
- Open the file that you want to listen to
- Click on "More" on the left side toolbar and enable the "Auto-Scroll" toggle under the Display section
- This feature will let the web app auto-scroll the document along with the reading
