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                        <p>
                           
                           The Read Out Loud feature reads aloud the
text in a PDF, including the text in comments and alternative text
descriptions for images and fillable fields. In tagged PDFs, content
is read in the order in which it appears in the document’s logical
structure tree. In untagged documents, the reading order is inferred, unless
a reading order has been specified in the Reading preferences.</p>

                        <p>Read
Out Loud uses the available voices installed on your system. If
you have SAPI 4 or SAPI 5 voices installed from text-to-speech or
language applications, you can choose them to read your PDFs.</p>

                        <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:  </span>Read
Out Loud isn’t a screen reader, and some operating systems may not support
it.</div>

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                           <p>You must activate Read Out Loud before
you can use it. You can deactivate Read Out Loud to free system
resources and improve performance of other operations.</p>

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                                 <img src="images/dingbat.png"></img> Do one of the following:</span><ul><li>
                                    <p>Choose View &gt; Read Out Loud &gt; Activate
Read Out Loud or press Shift+Ctrl+Y (Windows) or Shift+Command+Y
(Mac OS).</p>

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<li>
                                    <p>Choose View &gt; Read Out Loud &gt; Deactivate Read
Out Loud or press Shift+Ctrl+Y (Windows) or Shift+Command+Y (Mac
OS).</p>

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                        <ol><li><span>Navigate to the page that you want
to read.</span></li>
<li><span>Do one of the following:</span><ul><li>
                                    <p>Choose View &gt; Read Out Loud &gt; Read
This Page Only or press Shift+Ctrl+V (Windows) or Shift+Command+V
(Mac OS).</p>

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<li>
                                    <p>Choose View &gt; Read Out Loud &gt; Read To End
Of Document or press Shift+Ctrl+B (Windows) or Shift+Command+B (Mac
OS).</p>

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</ul>
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                        <ol><li><span>
                                 In the Reading panel of the Preferences
dialog box, select Read Form Fields in the Read Out Loud Options
section.</span></li>
<li><span>In the PDF form, press Tab to select the first form field.</span></li>
<li><span>Make entries and selections as needed, and then press
Tab to move to the next field, repeating this step until the form
is completed. Reader reads the state
of selected check boxes and radio buttons.</span></li>
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                                 <img src="images/dingbat.png"></img> Do one of the following:</span><ul><li>
                                    <p>Choose View &gt; Read Out Loud &gt;
Pause or press Shift+Ctrl+C (Windows) or Shift+Command+C (Mac OS).</p>

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<li>
                                    <p>Choose View &gt; Read Out Loud &gt;
Stop or press Shift+Ctrl+E (Windows) or Shift+Command+E (Mac OS).</p>

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