Apart from the 4 standard static avatars to read out your recordings,  there is now a facility to customize your avatar's appearance . You can create customized avatars and  use them instead of the static avatars.

The Avatar creation page is accessible from the My Recordings page. Before creating any new avatar, you need to specify a name for it. Once a custom avatar is created, you can go to the Select Avatars page and set the male and female avatars.

We have update the IE version of our ReadTheWords toolbar. Please uninstall any older version if you have already been using it as the old toolbar will not work with the update website.

Using this , you can convert text in a web page to speech without having to go to ReadTheWords.com.

The toolbar has been tested with IE 5.5, 6.0 and 7.0

The steps for installing are as follows:

• Download the toolbar zip file from the download link given below
• Create a folder called Toolbar in your disk
• Unzip the files in the folder
• Close all open windows of IE
• Double click on Installer.exe
• Open IE. If the RTW toolbar does not show then right click on the space above the address bar to get the list of installed toolbars. Check the item called RTW Toolbar. There should be a tick mark next to it.
• Close IE and open it again. The toolbar should be installed now.

To remove or uninstall the toolbar:

• Go to the toolbar folder
• Close all open IE windows
  
• Dbl click on Uninstaller.exe

Please contact us for any problems or issues faced while using the toolbar.

The IE toolbar can be downloaded from here 

We have introduced 2 male and 2 female avatars which members can select to read out their recordings.

 

You can select your avatar settings once you log into your My Recordings screen.  When you click on Play Avatar icon below each recording, depending on the voice used  the male or female avatar will popup and read the recording.

Please note that recordings older than May20th,2008 will not work with avatars as that functionality was built in later.