The Narrator

To Use Narrator to Provide Audio Assistance for the Screen Display

Narrator is a text-to-speech utility for users who are blind or who have low vision.Narrator is designed to work with Notepad, WordPad, Control Panel programs, MicrosoftInternet Explorer, the Windows desktop, and Windows Setup. Narrator may not work correctly in other programs. Narrator reads what is displayed on your screen: thecontents of the active window, menu options, or the text that you have typed. You musthave text-to-speech capabilities installed on the computer to use Narrator. Narrator isnot available for all languages and is currently only supported on the English version ofWindows XP. Narrator has a number of options with which you can customize the way in which screen elements are read.

Click the options that you need on the Narrator dialog box:

• Click Announce events on screen to have new windows, menus, or shortcut menus read
aloud when they are displayed.
• Click Read typed characters to have typed characters read aloud.
• Click Move mouse pointer to the active item to have the pointer follow the active item on the screen.
• Click the Voice button to adjust the speed, volume, or pitch of the voice.