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Spokentext.net now supports email submission of text files for recording. Which means that you don’t have to visit to site to record a file. Just attach it to an email add a subject and you will be notified by email when it is ready for download.

Spokentext.net allows you to just copy and paste text in to the site. Or type the text in direclty. This way you can quickly record small chunks of text.

To get started:

1. Login to to your Spokentext.net account
2. Click on the My Account link in the left hand menu
3. Locate your Private SpokenText email address
4. Once you have the address open up your email program
5. Create a new email
6. Enter a subject for the email. This mandatory for SpokenText to record your email
7. Enter the text you want recorded in to the body of the email or attach a file to record
8. Press Send.

That’s it!

You will be notified by email when your recording is ready. Or you can check the View Recordings page to see the status of your recording.

Email notification of completed recordings is now optional. If you would like to be notified by email when your recording is ready for download.

Just select Yes from the Sent me an email when this recording is completed select list when submitting your text for recording.

Mark

You can now delete multiple recordings at one time on the view recordings page.

Just click the check box next to the recordings you want to delete or click the recording name to select the recording you want to delete and press the delete button.

Login and check it out.

Mark

I just added support for recording RSS 2 news feeds.

To record a News Feed.

1. Login to your account
2. Click the New Recording button
3. Click the Record News Feed tab
4. Enter the URL for the RSS 2 feed you want to record
5. Set a limit for how many of the articles in the feed you want to record. The default is the first 5 articles
6. Click Record

As always if you have any issues, comments or suggestions for how to improve this feature send us an email.

Mark

If you ever have issues recording a PDF it maybe for the following reasons.

1. You tried to record a PDF encrypted with Digital Rights Management (DRM). SpokenText cannot record files protected with DRM. As all text contained within the document is encrypted. And not available for recording.

2. There maybe an error in your PDF file. If possible try using Adobe Acrobat to convert the PDF file to a text file. To do this in Acrobat click File -> Save as Text and then uploaded the text file to your account for recording.

3. You tried to record a PDF which contained only images. At present SpokenText cannot read text embedded in images.

As a general rule when ever possible convert your PDF file to text files (.txt). This will insure that they will be recorded.