The document provides instructions for using the Daisy Reader program within Read&Write Gold to read digital talking books (DAISY books). It describes how to open and navigate DAISY books, adjust reading and speech options, use bookmarks and find text, and convert files to different formats using the included NIMAS conversion tool.

1. Using digital talking books with…
textHELP
Read&Write Gold
version 9

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Click and hold blue title
Read and Write toolbar: bar to move the toolbar
around your screen
Drag toolbar to top
of your screen to
“dock” it
Click the anchor
tool to “undock” the
toolbar
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Read&Write Gold has Switching
6 toolbars to choose
from. toolbars
1.From the TextHelp
menu, choose
“Current toolbar”
2.Select the toolbar
you want
“My Features” toolbar
can be customized
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The Reading Features toolbar
To find the Daisy
Reader program:
From the
textHELP menu,
choose:
Current Toolbar,
then
Reading Features
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Daisy Reader Program
Daisy
Reader
program
window
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Open a Daisy book
When you first launch
the Daisy Reader
program, you are
prompted to find a
folder containing a
Daisy book.
Use the “plus”
button to find
your Daisy When you find your
book’s folder books folder, click
the OK button
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Open another Daisy book
Once you have opened
Daisy Reader, you may
open a different Daisy
book by:
1. Opening the File Menu
2. Choosing Open
3. Navigate to the book’s
folder using the Browse
to Folder window
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Close a Daisy book
From the
File menu,
choose Exit
Or…
Use the window
close button
(top right corner)
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Reading text
Read the Pause / restart Stop
text the reading
Read Read the
previous next
passage passage
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Read from a selected spot on
the page
Highlight a section
of text on the
page
Then, click the
Play button
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Reading Options
To the right of the Play
button is the drop-down
menu arrow that will open
the reading options menu.
In the Play menu, you may
choose to read by word,
sentence, or paragraph.
Click Automatically read
next block of text for
continuous reading.
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Speech options
Change voice
Change speed
Change volume
Test new settings, then…
Click OK when finished
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Navigation by table of
contents
One page of the
Daisy book is
displayed at a time,
and you may use
the table of
contents to scroll to
the page you want
to view, then
double-click to
jump directly to that
page.
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Book navigation tools
(lower right corner of screen)
Move to Move to
first page last page
in book. in book.
Move to Move to next
previous page.
page.
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From the Display
Display options menu, choose
Display Options
Change font Change text and
type and size background colors
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Bookmarks
Erase
Go To the bookmark
Use the drop-
down box to bookmark
show a list of the shown in
the Place a
current bookmark at the
bookmarks bookmark
list current location
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Find text
Type in the Choose whether Click the
text you the search Search tool to
should match scan the
want to case, and/or book for this
search for find whole text.
in this words.
book.
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NIMAS conversion
tool
From the textHELP
menu, choose Convert
NIMAS to HTML…
NOTE: When using the NIMAS conversion tool,
you may choose to convert a NIMAS file to a
split HTML or a split XML. Typically, a
NIMAS file often contains in one large page
or document. Using this tool, you may split it
up by pages, and, you may output it as an
HTML file, or as a typical Daisy book in the
XML format.
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1. Browse your
computer to
find a NIMAS
book
2. Browse to find
a folder to put
the converted
book into.
(suggestion:
create a new
folder before
starting the
Converter)
3. Choose
whether to
convert to 4. Click
HTML or Convert
Daisy (XML)
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Reading .html, .rtf and .pdf books
.html format books open
What about books not in your web browser. The
in the DAISY format? Read&Write reading tools
will read the text aloud.
.rtf (rich text format)
books will open in your
word processor (e.g. .pdf books may be “locked”
MSWord) and the or “unlocked”. If locked, the
Read&Write tools will read text cannot be selected or
the text aloud. highlighted. Unlocked pdf
books may be read with
PDFAloud. Locked pdf
books can be read with
textHELPs Screenshot
Reader.
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Speech Maker – text to audio files
1. Select a block of Callout Text box
text.
2. Click the Speech
Maker button in the
Research Features
toolbar.
3. Text will appear in
the dialog box
shown here.
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Speech Maker
continued…
4. Make any changes
in the Voice Settings
box. Click Next.
5. Use the Save As
button to name your
file and choose a
storage location.
6. Choose MP3, then
click Finish
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AudioPlus books
Are you a member of
RFB&D (Recordings
for Blind and
Dyslexic)? textHELP
Read&Write Gold
will open and play
AudioPlus books
from RFB&D using
their human
recorded narration.
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24. The development of this project by the AIM
Consortium and the Michigan Department of
Education was funded by Grant #
H327S070003 from the U. S. Department of
Education, Office of Special Education
Programs. The contents of this project are
not exhaustive and inclusion does not imply
endorsement by the U.S. Department of
Education, the Michigan Department of
Education or the Center for Applied Special
Technology (CAST)