VoiceCorp has just launched a new add-on for its ReadSpeaker Enterprise Expanding Player product. This feature enables website visitors to see synchronized highlighting of the text currently being read, on a word by word and/or sentence basis depending on which setting has been chosen.
Once the user has selected the synchronized highlighting of his/her choice, a cookie will enable the same setting when the user starts the ReadSpeaker Expanding Player service again.
This new Embedded highlighting feature has the following benefits for the website visitor:
- Enhanced and better comprehension of the text being read out
- Immediate and exact vision on which part of the web page is being read out
- Choice of synchronized highlighting which best fits the user's needs
And like with all ReadSpeaker products, the user does not need to download and install special software to use the ReadSpeaker Enterprise Expanding Player. In the case where the visitor uses a browser without support for Javascript and can't play Flash content, the Expanding Player product is configured so that the audio can always be played so that the text can be read back.
The Embedded highlighting can be tried out on this page by clicking on the Listen button at the top and then clicking on the Settings link beneath the player to choose the type of synchronization.