Listen to any PDF file instead of reading
I think that it might be a old news for you all. But it’s pretty new to me. I used to read a lot of eBooks but I didn’t know that there is a feature like that in Adobe® Reader®. I just come to know that we can listen to any PDF file instead of reading with Adobe Reader.
Shortcuts~
Ctrl+shift+b - to hear the entire Document
Ctrl+shift+v - to hear the page
Ctrl+shift+c - to resume
Ctrl+shift+e - to stop
Open any PDF file and play with those shortcuts above.
You may read the details in the following links.
- Hello TTS(Text-to-Speech technology): Listen to your PDF
- Listen to Your PDFs (Adobe - Design Center)
Thanks to Rahul for fowarding this mail.
moeyae said
am March 27 2007 @ 12:03 pm
Cool !
Michael Sync said
am March 27 2007 @ 12:06 pm
ya. it’s cool..
I think, adobe has added this feature (TTS) to Acrobat around 2005 or 6.. but I didn’t know abt that..
I hav tested with my adobe reader version 7.0. it’s working fine but the default voice is not good.. sound is like robot’s talking.. not good to listen..
wendysung626 said
am March 27 2007 @ 3:42 pm
hey dude
this is absolutely cool
this is nothing old to me
thank you so much for coming
well i don’t know about the player
i did have one player on the right side bar
but it does not paly automatically
oh yeah
come and visit my flickr
it’s more interesting i guess
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wendysung626/
moeyae said
am March 28 2007 @ 1:09 am
Like guy’s voice or girl’s voice…
Drop a feature request at Adobe
Michael Sync said
am March 28 2007 @ 2:28 am
@ wendysung626
Thanks for your visit…
ya.. i’v been there once… I put a comment in this photo “hehe! do you like it?”.
@moeyae
inn. ya..
actually, abobe simply added javascript to use default Windows Speeh (TTS) API for reading pdf text.. there are three readers (LH Michael, LH Michelle and Microsoft Same) as default for Speech tool in my xp box. but I like none of them.. so, maybe. i should drop a “feature request” to Microsoft Speech too.
Alex Espinoza said
am March 28 2007 @ 8:50 pm
Dude this is cool!!! I didn’t know either… I guess I know why the Reader is so heavy on Memory… but still the feature is so cool… thanks man.
Ashish C. said
am March 29 2007 @ 7:02 am
Wow! Even I didn’t know about it… now only if the voice was real-life like!
[Btw, I do prefer to read than listen... except perhaps fairytales eh? 
]
wendysung626 said
am March 30 2007 @ 10:51 pm
oh that was you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i see now!
you have been to my flickr???
wow
i actually thought you have known me through bloglog
i think you were the one in blogwood right?
and just by chance you went to my flickr?
Michael Sync said
am March 31 2007 @ 2:35 am
ya. im the one in blogwood… i know ur bloglog too..
>>just by chance you went to my flickr?
you gave me your photo links two times … so, i went there..
why dont u try ur english blog in wordpress??
wp.com is pretty good and free..
Balakrishna said
am October 31 2007 @ 5:05 am
WOW, for me too it is not something old - I am wondering How the people missed out discussing this kind of wonderful features -
Thanks to all
Rajendra said
am July 4 2008 @ 1:59 am
nice & quality potraits