teach you to use Excel for speech proofreading

The new text to Speech feature, starting with Excel2002, enables Excel to read the numbers or text content in a cell, and use this feature to help proofread the contents of a table for correct entry. Today, let's take a look at how this function is used: Open the Tools menu, select the Show text to Speech Toolbar command in the Voice Item submenu, this feature is not installed by default, and Excel automatically installs it. Once installed, the "text to Speech" Floating toolbar is displayed, as shown in the button function in the toolbar (Figure 1).

Figure 1

Select the area you want to recite, click the "Speak Cells" button in the floating toolbar, and Excel starts reciting in the order in which they are in line. You can also recite in the order of the columns, click the By Column button in the text to language floating toolbar, and then click the Recite Cells button to read aloud in the order of the columns.

Reading can read Chinese pronunciation, but for English words, it is a letter read aloud. You can adjust the speed of reading in the Text-to-Speech tab of the Speech Properties dialog box by double-clicking the Speech item in Control Panel.