The Sensory Readable toolbar offers a variety of sensory ambient sounds that can be played while using Readable. The volume of the ambient sound adjusts automatically, with a lower volume when Readable is speaking and a higher volume when there is no speech. This allows you to listen to text with Readable, and when it stops speaking, the ambient sound resumes at its previous level. This sensory focus feature is available in Readable Suite V2.5 or later. Update earlier versions to add this feature.

You can select your preferred ambient sounds in the Readable Settings under the Ambient Sound tab.

The screenshot above shows the 4 areas of the Ambient setting tab.

1.        Ambient Sound selection buttons

2.        The Ambient background sound volume to use when Readable is speaking to provide audio balance. 

3.        The Ambient Sound volume to use when Readable is not speaking. 

4.        A preview button that enables you to hear the settings along with the currently selected voice. 

These are the choices of Ambient Sounds available in Readable V2.5

       No Ambient Sounds        

       Crickets

       White Noise                        

       Whale

       Brown Noise        

       Crackling Fire

       Pink Noise                        

       Waterfall

       Church                        

       River

       Temple

       Sea waves                

       Birdsong

       Bubbles

       Seagulls                                

       Train

How to Start and Stop Ambient Sounds

To start an ambient sound, open the Readable settings, select the Ambient Tab, and click on the icon to listen to the sounds. Change volume with the sliders below the icons. 

To stop the Ambient Sounds, click the X in the red box        

You can also turn the Ambient  Sounds on and off from the Readable toolbar. The sound will be the last sound selected in the Readable Settings Ambient tab.

You can also control the Ambient Sound level using the Windows PC volume control.

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