Text to Speech

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Text to Speech

• Presented by
• Lorinda Tait
• from
• Lansing School District
• 1/10/2010

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Picture It

• Three steps needed to have a finished document
  ready to be used by your students. 1. Type the
  words in the story text window. 2. Select Parse
  the Text from edit menu. 3. Print out document.

• Pull down the file menu and choose new.
• Activate the story text window by clicking on it.
• Pull down the Edit menu and choose Parse the
  Text.

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Experiment with Picture It

• Graphics Menu -pull down the menu and experiment
  with picture sizes. Choose thick border, see
  different ones, remove them - no border. Select
  color and change to black and white.

• Options Menu - select a new font so the document
  is written in a different one.Change the text
  size and style. Change the font size and style
  for one word - click on one word in paper window.

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Options Menu Picture It

• Change the page margins. Type larger numbers.
  Change them back to 6s.
• Document printed in Portrait unless you select
  Landscape. Landscape for long sentence parse text
  again.

• Turn on the grid - will not show up when you
  print, but will guide you when moving pictures
  and text around.
• Move individual words and pictures - click and
  drag. Reparse the text.

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Practice using Picture It

• Several words and pictures can be moved at one
  time. Draw a selection box around both the
  pictures and words. Position cursor at top left
  corner of graphic and drag to the end of sentence.

• Release the button.
• Place your cursor inside the rectangle, hold the
  mouse button down and drag the entire rectangle
  to the bottom of the page.

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Picture It Practice

• If a graphic did not move, draw a larger
  rectangle.
• Enlarge a picture - click on it and position the
  cursor on one of the four corners. Drag it to
  make it the size you want.

• Locked Format - protect your custom formatting
  efforts. Spelling lesson - same format, but
  weekly words. Select from option menu. Activate
  story text window. Parse text. Lock format.
  Reparse text.

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Picture It Practice

• All picture files must be saved with a .PWD
  extension.
• Save in a different directory than COLORLIB or
  SYMBOLS, use CPITV3 .

• Highlight a word or picture by clicking on it
  once. Edit menu - click clear. Try this on a
  single word or picture. Edit menu - undo.