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Let's talk about using app reader in a different modes that, uh, that we
have, um, under app reader so real quick, what, what is, app reader
switch over to word control home to go to the top of the document.
And let's just, let's just hear an example of app reader, boroughs of
New York city Manhattan, a Manhattan New York county is the geographically
smallest and most densely populated.
So app reader is the tool that we can use.
Um, it's a couple of tools that we can use to, to read, uh,
information that's on this screen.
Okay.
And it is located under the reader tab on those in text interface,
under the reading tool section.
Here we have apparator.
So under app reader we have these three tools we can choose from.
And before we go more into that, just real quick, let's talk about
what are the benefits of that?
So let's say I'm a, let's say I have a visual condition
where I can read my emails.
I can read word documents or webpages with the assistance of ZoomText.
I can read it fine, but.
You know, after, after lunch, my eyes started getting tired.
Maybe I started getting headaches.
Um, app reader is going to help me with, uh, you know, if I have
that condition, it's going to help me with, uh, with eye fatigue.
So it'll read that stuff on the screen for me.
Um, rather than.
Me having to rely on my eyes, uh, to do it.
Um, another example would be maybe, maybe we use a higher
magnification level and it's harder to track words to read.
It would be helpful in that case too overall.
It's just a, it's a really cool tool to have available.
Under apparator again, we have the three tools, the three modes, I'm sorry, app
view, text view in the speaker tool.
And then we have some settings we can access.
We'll take a look at those two.
So let's go back and take a look at app view.
Um, before we do that, I'm going to be using some keystrokes.
I'm going to hover over the operator button here.
Um, always want to point this out.
That's a cool feature inZoomText.
You can hover over these buttons on the ZoomText interface.
If you're, if you're curious to let the, the keystrokes aren't a launch them.
So say you wanted to know what mouse, uh, echo you can use Caps Alt M by
hover, over voice caps lock enter.
I always like to point that out.
Uh, Another thing worth pointing out here.
You'll notice that voice is disabled.
We don't have voice enabled.
Uh, I'll get the question sometimes that, you know, do I have to have voice
enabled in order to use App Reader the answer is no, you don't have to do that.
So let's alt tab back over to word control home, go
to the top of the document.
And I'm going to, I'm going to turn color enhancements on with, uh, just to
make that a little easier on the eyes.
Um, So after you, after you is gonna read, uh, read the text
in the source application.
So when I press the keystroke, all cabs a as an alpha, he's just going
to start reading here in this word, w uh, the window, uh, the word window.
So let's do that.
Let's press Caps Alt A.
Boroughs of New York city Manhattan, a Manhattan New York
county is the geographically smallest and most densely pond.
I'm gonna hit the control key on the keyboard to pause, interrupt speech.
I can also click the left mouse button that will do the same thing.
You can also press enter on the keyboard, um, to pause.
So let's take a take note of a few things here.
So when I, when I activated App Reader, uh, We saw this, uh, red
rectangle pop up around the word it's highlighting the word that's being read.
So as it reads, borough is home to central park and most of them
that highlight follows, follows the highlights, the word being read.
The other thing we'll notice is.
When app view is active, we have, uh, a little icon that's
attached to, to the pointer.
It's a little square.
It kind of looks like an application window that lets us
know that after you is, is active.
Um, so I paused it with the control key.
Um, I'm going to click the word Brooklyn.
I can click around the screen.
I can, I can say, I want to say, I want to jump down to the Bronx.
I can click the word the at the beginning of that sentence and I can
continue reading my pressing answer.
The Bronx Bronx county is New York.
City's Northern most Earl in the only New York city borough.
That lies mainly on them.
Let me hit control again to, to pause speech and, uh, So, yeah,
that is an example of app view.
Um, once I've done reading, uh, let's let it read to the
end here, the click Ellis.
This is the last sentence on the document, this island and
lower Manhattan end of document.
So ZoomText told us this is the end of the document.
And, uh, so to exit, I'm just going to press the escape key.
You can also press the right mouse button.
Um, Let me hit escape and there we go.
So let's, I'm gonna hit control home.
Just go back to the top of the document.
I'm going to turn color enhancements off.
I go to the desktop.
Then I'm going to caps control you to bring the ZoomText
interface back into the view.
I'm going to click the app reader menu, and I'm going to
look at app for you settings.
So under ad view settings, we have a couple options
tracking, highlight words.
You can disable that.
And that's what caused that red rectangle or the red frame to
follow the word that was being read.
And then we can say, you know, do you want to exit app view
at the end of the document?
Uh, basically the automatically just closes app you when the
document, uh, when it reached to the end of the document.
I'm going to leave those on, uh, let's.
I just want to change.
I'm going to change the highlight from a frame to an underline, and I want
to make it a green, green underline, and we'll leave the thickness and
transparency of that underline the same.
So I'm gonna hit, okay.
We're gonna Alt Tab back to word.
We'll turn the color enhancements back on.
And then when I put my cursor at the beginning of the paragraph about
Queens, and I'm going to press Alt Caps A as in alpha Queens, Queens
county on long island, north and east of Brooklyn is geographically.
I clicked the left mouse button to pause speech.
And now we can see that, uh, we have the green underline instead of red frame.
Or the highlighting the word.
So that is app view.
So let's take a look at the second reading mode, which is called text view.
So I'm going to turn my color enhances back off.
So app app view what we saw that reads in the source application.
Okay.
So if I want to read, if I want to use text view, I'm going
to hit Alt Caps T as in tango.
Geographically the largest bureau.
The most, you can hear that it'll automatically start reading.
So text view, you pulls this text into a different window, special environment
that makes it easier to read.
So if, if a user wants to read along a text, you may make it
easier for them to do that.
We can see that, um, it's white text on a black background.
It's an, a prompter view.
We have some buttons at the top that we can use to, to change.
We can change it to ticker view.
So it's a.
Ticker tape across the top of the page or the window right
now, it's in prompter view.
By default, we have the option to click app view, which would just
launch it would go back to the word window in the launch app view, which
is like what we were just looking at.
Uh, we can also, there's a play button, which is just like
hitting enter to continue reading.
Uh, we can increase zoom, zoom level.
Or decreasing zoom levels.
And then we can change the speech rate rate 115.
We want to speed up a speech rate.
So in this window, in the text view window, it's the
same, the same rules apply.
You can press enter to begin reading.
I can press control to pause.
I can click the left mouse button to pause, and then I can also press
escape when I'm done reading it.
We also have a settings button.
Up here and we can choose our font, the font style.
Well, the document color.
So what, what color text on what color?
Black background?
Um, you have some formatting options and just like App View.
We can change the highlight.
So let's say I want to make it an underline, a green underline,
just like I did with app view.
I'm just going to say, okay.
States and the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world,
historically a collection United.
And so that is text view.
You press escape to exit out of that.
So we're back on our word document, and I want to look at the speak it tool now.
Um, I'm going to turn.
Color enhancements back on caps lock C as in Charlie, speak it tool.
I'm going to Alt Caps S.
And we heard, uh, ZoomText say app reader, speak it tool.
And next to my mouse pointer is a little dialogue box.
It's like a speech bubble letting me know that the speak it tool is active.
So when speak it tool is active, we can use it for things like.
Spot reading.
Say, we just don't know what a certain word is.
If you click it or we're having a hard time making it out of what the
word, you know, what it is, we can just simply turn on a speak it tool,
click the word, another cool thing.
And it's not doing anything.
It's not moving the, the, the cursor to the word I'm clicking.
It's just simply just reading what what's under the pointer as I click it.
Um, another cool thing I like to use this.
Tool for speaking tool is to explore, uh, an application.
So we're in word, let's say I was new to word and I'm not sure what some of these
icons in the ribbon where, for example, the center button, it's just a couples,
you know, a couple of lines, maybe let's say, I'm not sure what that is.
I can click it and it doesn't activate the button.
It just simply says center.
And then it said, CTRL plus E.
Control E so that's the it, let me know.
The keystroke is control E if I click, uh, the B bold, bold CTRL
plus B bold CTRL or control plus B, and then say, I'm having a hard time
making out what the name of, one of these tabs is on the river references
mailings, and I can do all this.
And again, it's not activating anything.
It's just simply reading what's under the pointer.
So excuse me.
Find this tool can be, can be quite helpful.
And again, like the other two, uh, App Reader modes I'm
just going to press escape.
So we've looked at using these App Reader modes in word,
we can use it in outlook.
We can also use them in, in, uh, Chrome I'm gonna go to Chrome.
Where I have a freedom scientific page, open what's new and ZoomText 2021.
Let's say I wanted to scroll down.
Let's say I want it to have ZoomText read.
Read to me about the FS support tool.
I'm just going to get that text.
In my view, I'm going to press Alt Caps A . FS support tool for
gathering system information.
The FS support tool is a new utility that collects information about
your computer and sends it to pause.
And.
Again, that's the app view tool.
So it's just reading there directly in Chrome.
If I wanted to read this and in the text view, I could press Alt Caps
T and again, if I needed to speak it to, to do something, to be spot
reading, checking on what, what a certain word is or what a button is.
Um, I could do that too.
So just an example of that.
Again, if I I'm going to go to the top of the page here.
If I mouse over these items, for example, if I put my pointer over
downloads, it opens this menu, but if I turn on speaking tool, Alt
Caps S if I put my pointer on it.
Nothing happens if I click it downloads, it tells me the says downloads.
So those are the reading modes and under, under app reader.
So I hope you found this interesting.
Everyone have a great day.
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