Importing Documents

Use File -> Open, or the Open button on the toolbar to import documents into TextAloud.

TextAloud currently supports the following document types:

Document Type	File Extension
Text File	.txt
Word Document	.doc
Rich Text Format	.rtf
HTML	.html
PDF	.pdf

Multiple Documents

In Multi-Article Mode, multiple documents may be selected from the Open dialog.  Each document will be added to TextAloud as a new article.

External Document References

If the document text size exceeds 100K, the document is not loaded directly into TextAloud.  Instead, an article is created, and a reference to the document is stored in the article.  This is mainly to prevent problems related to scrolling in very large articles as the Text-To-Speech Engine processes the text.

The 100K limit was chosen simply because its conservative and should be a reliable limit in most cases.  The limit can be increased if desired; contact us support@nextup.com for details.

Tips

• For importing large text files, use the File Splitter utility to split large files into multiple smaller files.  Using Multi-Article mode, you can then read the resulting files into multiple articles.  This can be especially useful for creating audio files from large text files.

Related Topics

Multi-Article Mode