Rob's Response Point

Hi Robert.

Thanks for responding. Its quite alright to post the comment. :-)

By text navigation, I mean the following. Say you have a few pages of text and you want to read through it using SAPI. However, you also want to provide the following:
-Read the whole document
-Pause reading
-Stop reading
-Skip a paragraph (ie. Read one paragraphy in a paragraphy mode)
-Skip a line (ie. Read one line in a line by line mode)
-Skip a word (ie. Read one word in a word by word mode)
-Skip a character (ie. Read one char in a char by char mode)

The first three are pretty easy to do. They just involve sending the whole document of text to the TTS. The part that most people have trouble with is trying to implement "mode change" from paragraph to line to word to char and switching back and forth between these.

So what this boils down to is a sort of Jaws functionality where you can read text on the screen and you can choose how it is read, by line, by paragraph etc. I guess its kind of the VCR-style controls but more elborate.

Hope this helps clear up what I was trying to say.

Robert, let me thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping out. I've been looking for solutions or ideas on how to do this for a long time, even going through google groups etc but to no avail. So Thanks a lot :-)