Monday, September 28, 2009

How to hear text being read to you from the online Encyclopedia

World Book Discover enables you to hear text being spoken in English. You go to the site and put in your library card number. Then, search for something you want to know about. When you find it, click on enable read aloud toolbar. Then, doubleclick on the first word of any sentence and it will read it to you.

If you wish, you can have any block of text in there translated to one of 14 languages including Arabic, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian. This is but one of the many interesting features of World Book Discover.

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