You have to read the books, highlight or post-it note the relevant passages, then type the information into Scrivener. Why this is so sweet for writers who are researching: There’s still a world of great reference material that exists in book form, and you can’t import it as a PDF or a webpage, nor can you copy and paste it into Scrivener. Am Researching…with Scrivener | Jann Alexander © 2017 Or when you have a resource open, you can simply click on the book cover icon to expose the menu options and then select Read Aloud.Whether you’re a Scrivener power user or a beginner, there are a few things Scrivener can do that you probably can’t do without . The above method doesn’t work for Logos Bible Software for desktop, but Logos has this feature built into it.Select (i.e., highlight) the text you want to hear, and press your “key” (e.g., Option+Esc) to listen. If I were using this feature to listen to audiobooks, I’d set the speed to “Fast.” But for my purposes, I think that “Normal” (or slightly faster) is about right.ĥ. The default shortcut for activating Text to Speech is Option+Esc, which is what I’ve been using. Check the box for “Speak selected text when the key is pressed.”
Update on : macOS Sierra does not have a “Dictation & Speech” icon. Open “System Preferences,” and select “Dictation & Speech.” (On listening to audio-Bibles, see here and here.) This is especially helpful when you want to listen to a variety of English translations while looking at a particular passage in Greek or Hebrew.ġ. Listen to an English Bible translation that I don’t already own as an audio-Bible.Sometimes my ears hear errors that my eyes miss. This helps pace me, and it helps me spot typos. Listen to something I’m copy-editing (whether it’s something that I or someone else wrote).Listen to a relatively long blog post or email while doing something else that allows me to multitask.Did you know that your Mac can read text aloud? The feature is called “Text to Speech.”
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