4.4 Text-to-Speech with a Natural Voice

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First, create a new box and select the Text-to-Speech module.
Text-to-Speech module
Select the reading language from the dropdown menu and then enter your desired text.
Entering the text to be spoken
Optionally, you can enable “Hide text”. Then only the play button will appear and the text will be hidden.
After that, save the box and you can have the text read aloud. Click on the text or the play icon to start.
Example of a reading text
Please note that the first click may require a few seconds of loading time.
⚙ textnew

2

You can also use any existing text in a box and have it read aloud.
Open the corresponding box and use your mouse to highlight the text that should be spoken.
Highlight text to read aloud
Then click on “Modules” and “Text-to-Speech”.
In the dialog, select the language of the text.
Select reading language
Optionally, you can enable “Hide text”. Then only the play button will appear and the text will be hidden.
Only play button without displaying the text
Confirm and save the box.
The existing text can then be read aloud automatically with a click.
⚙ textexisting

3

- If desired, the text can be hidden.
- Learners will then only hear the audio output without seeing the text.
- This is especially suitable for listening comprehension and language training.
- This mode is also very useful for dictations.
- Learners can fully concentrate on careful listening.
- It is particularly helpful for better perceiving pronunciation, word boundaries, and sentence melody.
Example: Text for dictation
When playing, a pause button and a stop button will appear.
The dictation can be paused and resumed at any time.
Technical note: To hide an existing text (that already has an audio tag), place an exclamation mark before the first word of the spoken text, for example: <audio-en>!Hello ...
⚙ hidetext
</audio>

4

You can edit the reading text at any time afterward.
To do this, open the box in the box editor. You will then see the highlighted text. For example:
Highlighted reading text in the box editor
This audio tag works like simple HTML. If you are not familiar with it, you can simply leave the tag unchanged. Important: Do not modify the <audio> tag itself, only your text.
You can edit, add to, or shorten the text directly.
Then save the box and click on the text to start the audio output.
Please note that the first click may require a few seconds of loading time.
⚙ edit

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- Use punctuation deliberately to make the audio output sound more natural.
- A comma or period often creates a short, natural pause.
- Use punctuation in the input text to create natural short pauses.
- For longer pauses, simply use ...
⚙ tips