Making TextAloud more productive
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 6:40 am
Unless I'm missing something, TextAloud works only with TEXT files, and even if "fed" MS Word or WordPerfect files, it converts these to TXT files. This presents a basic program, in that it is impossible to review a file which has italics or underlining, as these don't come through when one wishes to check a file using TextAloud.
Another - possibly bigger - problem is that if one edits a file while listening to it with TextAloud, the changes are only saved in a TXT file - thus losing all the special formatting.
The only way I have found to overcome this problem is to open the file in two separate programs: in TextAloud and (in my case) in OpenOffice. This is a tremendous waste of time while editing.
Is there any consideration being given in having TextAloud work directly in MS Word rather than in TXT format?
Or am I missing something, and TextAloud does have such a feature?
Shmuel
Another - possibly bigger - problem is that if one edits a file while listening to it with TextAloud, the changes are only saved in a TXT file - thus losing all the special formatting.
The only way I have found to overcome this problem is to open the file in two separate programs: in TextAloud and (in my case) in OpenOffice. This is a tremendous waste of time while editing.
Is there any consideration being given in having TextAloud work directly in MS Word rather than in TXT format?
Or am I missing something, and TextAloud does have such a feature?
Shmuel