If it’s more convenient for you to have information on a website read to you, then this “text-to-speech” extension may be what you are looking for. I’m going to test this on the first article that appears on DavesComputerTips as I write this. And the
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My first encounter with voice recognition was back in the mid-70s, while watching Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). In act two, Dr. Haywood Floyd arrives at the space station and passes through Voiceprint Identification, confirming his destination, nationality, and full name. This technology
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We recently published an article on how to make text bigger in Windows 10, a very helpful option for users who might be sight-impaired. These types of assistance features/options are available via Windows 10’s Ease of Access settings. In this article, I’ll be showing you
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The text cursor is that little vertical blinking line you see in a dialogue box or document that lets you know where you’re at. Sometimes the text cursor gets lost and is difficult to find, and for people whose eyesight is not the best, it
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Are you a person that can easily get lost in time on your computer? By that I mean do you lose track of time when you perhaps have other things to do? If so, here is a ‘Geeky’ trick to make your computer tell you
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As I am sure you’ll know, clicking the explorer shortcut on the Windows 8 desktop taskbar opens up the Libraries folder. Why? I cannot see any reason why I would want a shortcut to open my Libraries folder. And! Oddly enough, neither could any of
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I was prompted to consider this when I realised that our TV remotes have microphones for issuing commands, a feature I haven’t tried yet and probably never will. It’s just as easy to simply press a button on the remote. I do, however, use speech-to-text
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In March 2016, DCT author Daniel Banks asked Are Smartwatches Just A Fad? Then, in September 2021, I wrote, I Just Bought My First Smart Watch!, followed by my most recent opinion in I Underestimated The Power Of Smart Watches, where I made mention of
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Recently, I’ve been watching YouTube videos about social decline and living standards in the UK, my home country. As a result, the YouTube algorithm, which has become razor sharp of late, has been showing me everything related to this topic. Yesterday, I stumbled across a
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In this article, I’ll present a step-by-step guide on how to add natural voices to the Windows 11 Narrator. Narrator is an option among Windows 11’s accessibility features which provide assistance for disabled users. Narrator already includes a number of computer-generated voice options but now
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