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You saved the day, Quantum. I had to go back 10 years to find it. Took me awhile. But today I got it and imported it. Thanks for your clear explanation.

I'm not sure what you are telling me. One problem I had is my hard disk crashed years ago. Are you saying that is where TextAloud would have kept the dictionary. I have archival backups, so if that's the default location for dictionaries, please tell mw how to spot it. Second problem is I can no lon...

Years ago I created a dictionary with substitution words, regex statements and more. It was a lot of work. I lost the whole thing because I assumed TA was saving it to its own user file application folder. So that's what I was backing up. After a disc crashed I learned TA does not store it there. No...

I checked the speaking rules and all the boxes are unchecked. I didn't install any dictionaries but I checked anyway and saw nothing there. I'm using the same computer I used with TA version 3, and the same voices. So the only thing that has changed is the TA version 4. And the last time I used it i...

I have TA 4.0.17 set to watch the mouse and to automatically create a new document and start reading. Sometimes when starts reading is skips the first part of the text. This might be a dozen words or three paragraphs. I cannot see a pattern in why this happens. I didn't have this problem with TA3.

I didn't install the Firefox plugin. So maybe there is something I'm not understanding. But when I go into the dictionary maintenance feature of the main application, I can turn off the dictionary by unchecking its box.

I have TA set to automatically read new articles. I use this in conjunction with Watch Mouse. The problem I'm having is if I pick a voice other than the default voice in TA. If I do this, select an area with the mouse, TA changes back to the default voice. Of course, I could change the default voice...