ReadSpeaker Listen Button

ReadSpeaker allows you to listen to Legal Services' website content or download it to listen to later on your phone or other device. You do not need to download any software to use ReadSpeaker on our website.

How does it work?

To activate ReadSpeaker, locate the button (shown below) which should appear above the main text on the webpage you wish to hear. 

Click the Listen button to listen to the webpage's main content being read aloud to you.

An audio player will appear (shown below) and ReadSpeaker will start reading the text of the webpage out loud.

In the player you can:

• Pause/restart the reading
• Stop the reading
• Skip backwards or forwards 5 seconds
• Use the progress bar to navigate in the audio
• Adjust the volume
• Change the reading speed
• Access the Enlarge Text feature to show the text being read at the bottom of the page in a large font size
• Access Settings to make other adjustments or download the audio file
• Close the player

You can use tab/shift+tab to navigate inside the player and press enter to activate a certain button or link.

Listen to selected text

You can also select a part of the text that you want to listen to, and then click the pop-up Listen button that appears next to the cursor. When you click the pop-up Listen button, an audio player will appear and ReadSpeaker will start reading the text you have selected.

ReadSpeaker also allows you to select a particular word and find its definition in the dictionary.

Settings

The Settings menu can be accessed by clicking the button to the left of the Listen button. 

In the Settings menu, you can choose:

• whether you want to have the text highlighted while read
• whether you want the text highlighted on a word and sentence basis, sentence only, or word only
• style and colours for the highlighting and text 
• whether you want the page to scroll automatically to follow the highlighted text
• whether you want the pop-up Listen button to be shown when text is selected
• whether you want to enable keyboard shortcuts
• to restore all settings to original defaults

You can also listen to the Settings by clicking the green Play button at the top ​​of the Settings menu: