Quickstart Tutorials for iPod Owners
Tutorial 1: How to Listen to Text at your Computer
- Select the following block of text with your mouse. (Move the mouse to the start of the first word, hold down the left button and drag the mouse to the end of the last word and release).
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
by Lewis Carroll.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?'
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
Click the small arrow 
to the right of Text2Go in the toolbar above and click the Speak Selected menu command.
- Congratulations! You should now be listening to the above text.
Tutorial 2: How to Listen to Text on your iPod
- Select the following block of text with your mouse.
The Importance of Being Earnest - A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
by Oscar Wilde.
An except from scene 1.
Jack. I am in love with Gwendolen. I have come up to town expressly to
propose to her.
Algernon. I thought you had come up for pleasure? . . . I call that business.
Jack. How utterly unromantic you are!
Algernon. I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then
the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
Jack. I have no doubt about that, dear Algy. The Divorce Court was specially invented for people whose memories are so curiously
constituted.
- Click on the Text2Go button in the toolbar above.
Switch to iTunes and locate the track in the All Text2Go playlist.
- Play the track to listen to it in iTunes.
- Plug in your iPod and synchronize your songs. Now you can listen to the track on your iPod.
Tutorial 3: Advanced - Choosing a Voice, Playlist and Adding Multiple Blocks of Text.
To choose the voice to use, click the small arrow to the right of the green ok icon (or yellow warning triangle). Go down to the Voice menu and select a voice to use. A short greeting will be played in the selected voice.
To create a Text2Go playlist, open iTunes, select the Text2Go folder in the Source view and then select New Playlist from the File menu.
To select the new play list in Text2Go, switch back to Internet Explorer, and click once again on the small arrow to the right of the green ok icon. Go down to the Play List menu and click on the new play list.
- Select the following block of text with your mouse.
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Chapter 1.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
Click on the Add Text button in the toolbar above. This will start a new document and add the selected text. A success sound will be played once the command completes.
- Now select the following block of text with you mouse and once again click on the Add Text button.
"My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you
heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?"
Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.
"But it is," returned she; "for Mrs. Long has just been here, and
she told me all about it."
Mr. Bennet made no answer.
"Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife
impatiently.
"_You_ want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it."
- Finally, click on the Text2Go button to convert all the text to speech and transfer it to iTunes. Then switch to iTunes and listen to the result.
