YouTube clip of WordQ
WordQ+SpeakQ is a commercial floating toolbar containing features to make reading and writing easier. It can read out text from almost any program such as:
- Adobe Reader,
- Microsoft Word,
- internet browsers.
speakQ is a plug-in for WordQ which adds speech recognition.
- WordQ can be purchased on its own.
Features
- Text-to-speech and speech-to-text
- Predicts words and sentences as you speak and write
- Speaks words in prediction list
- Speak and select
- Colour highlighting
- Spelling and homophone corrections
How do I use WordQ?
- Select some text from your document or webpage.
- Press the F6 key and Ghotit will copy the text.
- Click on the 'Speaker' icon to have the text read aloud.
- Click on the 'Speaker' icon to stop.
Changing the voice
If you have your own voices installed on your PC then they can be changed via Preferences.
- Select 'Preferences' from the 'Edit' menu.
- Select the voice you require from the 'System Voice' menu.
- Close the box when finished.
You can download free high quality Scottish voices which are available freely for the Scottish public sector.
