Start Readable Speaking using 6 button mouse.

Many low cost mice have 2 buttons on the left hand side of the mouse. These are sometimes referred to as gaming mice or 6 button mice. 

From Readable v1.0.15, we added the ability for the two mouse buttons to start Readable speaking. This is an alternative to pressing down the CTRL key to initiate speaking under the mouse. Select the "Ctrl+Move Cursor to Speak" setting to be on for this to operate effectively.

A text “section” can be set to always speak a word, a line, a block/paragraph or from the mouse cursor to the end of the document or article. To start speaking, move the mouse cursor to the word where you would like “speaking” to start. Press "button 5" on the mouse to start speech (the back button). Readable will stop speaking when you press Ctrl button, left click the mouse or press stop icon on the Readable toolbar. Pressing the "speak text under mouse" button whilst reading is taking place, will repeat/restart speaking the content.

Reminder - if you land on a word and it doesn't immediately speak, just nudge your mouse pointer and it should then know that is where you want to speak from.

You will find that highly accessible Microsoft applications such as Word, Edge, Outlook, Notepad, Wordpad and more will allow Readable to underline-highlight and speak. Some applications may not support the under-line highlight at this point in time so will just speak the text content. 

If the Ctrl & move mouse method does not start speech in the particular application you are working in, we would suggest you use the "select with mouse pointer and speak" method.

When you are using the mouse click to speak, there are additional options for choosing the words spoken. The options can be seen on the image above.

• Hover Off - if you want to stop all speech when you move the mouse, click on the "Hover Off" setting

• Word Hover - If you struggle with some words, and don't require full sentences or blocks of text to be spoken, select Word Hover. Then the single word underneath the mouse will be spoken after pressing Ctrl and landing (or nudging) the mouse pointer on the word to be spoken.

• Line Hover - This setting will speak the whole line underneath the mouse, so useful for speaking lists.

• Block Hover - after pressing Ctrl and landing (or nudging) the mouse pointer within a "block" of text, the speech will start from the beginning of the block. Typically, a block would be a paragraph, but Readable makes a decision about what the block could be.

• Document Read - after pressing Ctrl and landing (or nudging) the mouse pointer within the written content on the screen, Readable will start speaking from that point in the "sentence/paragraph/block" and continue to the end of the text. It many applications that Underline-Highlight, then the document will also auto-scroll within the window. So this is a perfect setting for automated speaking starting from any word, continuing until stopped by Pressing Ctrl, pressing the Stop button on the Readable toolbar, or left clicking the mouse. 

When Readable is speaking text in long formatted documents, such as Edge or Word, in the "Document Read" mode, you may find that a "mouse scroll wheel" or two fingered swipe on your laptop touchpad will skip speaking to the next paragraph or block. This is another way to move quicker through a document whilst listening to keep aspects of the text with Readable text to speech.

Video Help (requires internet)

https://youtube.com/embed/jwmpFX18fLo?showinfo=0&rel=0