Text Speaker 3.14

Adjusting Emphasis

One of the most important ways to make speech sound natural is to emphasize it correctly.  Proper emphasis can also change the meaning of a sentence.  For instance, these two sentences:

We CAN do it!

and

WE can do it!

mean different things.

In Text Speaker, emphasis is shown by speaking the emphasized text more loudly. 

To emphasize:

1. Select the word or phrase you wish to be spoken with emphasis.
2. Click Edit >> Emphasize.  The text is now surrounded by <emph> and </emph> tags.
   
   
3. You can also manually add the <emph> and </emph> tags to the text.

If you save the edited text, the emphasis tags are also saved, allowing you to mark up text for later speaking.

See also:

• Speaking Text Aloud
• Convert Text To Audio
• Changing the Voice
• Adjusting Speed and Pitch
• Adjusting Pronunciation
• Keyboard Shortcuts