Listening to your Course Readings

A presentation by the Tavistock and Portman NHS

Foundation Trust Library

There are two ways you can listen to your readings depending on how the text is available:

• As a PDF (eBook chapters or journal articles) • or in HTML when using the EBSCOhost

platform (journal articles, PEP Archive).

Listening to PDFs

Listening to PDFs

If you have downloaded a PDF, you can listen to it by using the read out loud function.

Listening to PDFs

If you have downloaded a PDF, you can listen to it by using the read out loud function. You will need Adobe Acrobat software. If you don’t have Adobe on your computer, you can download it for free here: https://get.adobe.com/uk/reader/

Listening to PDFs

Please note that the Read Out Loud function will not work on PDFs of book chapters or journal articles that have been scanned from print copies as the quality is not good enough for the system to translate them into sound.

Listening to PDFs

First download a journal article or a chapter from an eBook on your reading list and save it to your computer as a PDF.

Example: saving a chapter from EBSCOhost

First, log into the eBook.

Example: saving a chapter from EBSCOhost

First, log into the eBook. Then, go to the chapter you require, using the contents menu on the left of the page.

Example: saving a chapter from EBSCOhost

Choose “Save pages” from menu bar at top, select “This section” (in order to get the full chapter) and click “Save PDF”.

Using the Read Out Loud function

Open the saved PDF on your computer (it should be in your “Downloads” folder).

Using the Read Out Loud function

Open the saved PDF on your computer (it should be in your “Downloads” folder). Go to menu bar and click on “View”, then “Read Out Loud” and then “Activate Read Out Loud”.

Using the Read Out Loud function

You can then use the other options in the same menu to start reading the document, pause it, or stop it.

Using the Read Out Loud function

You can then use the other options in the same menu to start reading the document, pause it, or stop it.

Just make sure the sound is enabled on your computer!

Listening to a text in HTML on EBSCOhost

Listening to a text in HTML

When accessing a document through the EBSCOhost platform, you can sometimes access the text in HTML format.

Listening to a text in HTML

When accessing a document through the EBSCOhost platform, you can sometimes access the text in HTML format.

This can be the case for some journal articles or when using PEP Archive, a database that hosts, for example, the full Standard Edition of Freud.

To do this, you need to either scroll down the screen until you start seeing the full-text or click on “HTML Full Text” on the left-hand side of the screen.

Listening to a text in HTML

Listening to the full document

Once you arrive on the full-text, you should see the following menu.

Listening to the full document

Choose the accent you prefer, and then click on “Listen”.

Listening to the full document

By clicking the “settings” button, you can change even more options like the speed of the voice.

Listening to the full document

By clicking the “settings” button, you can change even more options like the speed of the voice.

Once you’ve started listening, you can pause or stop the reading by clicking the following buttons.

Downloading a MP3 for the full document

If you want to download a MP3 of the text being read, you can do so by clicking the download button.

Downloading a MP3 for the full document

If you want to download a MP3 of the text being read, you can do so by clicking the download button.

Then, you need to click on “Agree and Download file”.

Downloading a MP3 for the full document

If you want to download a MP3 of the text being read, you can do so by clicking the download button.

Then, you need to click on “Agree and Download file”.

Finally, save it to your computer.

Listening to an extract of the text

If the text you’re looking at is very very long, you might not want to listen to all of it!

Listening to an extract of the text

If the text you’re looking at is very very long, you might not want to listen to all of it! To listen to only an extract of the text, you need first to select the part you want to read.

Listening to an extract of the text

If the text you’re looking at is very very long, you might not want to listen to all of it! To listen to only an extract of the text, you need first to select the part you want to read. A button then appears (for a rather brief time: click quickly!). Click on “Listen” to start listening to the text.

Listening to an extract of the text

Once you’ve started listening, the rest of the options appear, like when you were listening to the full text.

Listening to an extract of the text

Once you’ve started listening, the rest of the options appear, like when you were listening to the full text.

Use them to pause the reading, change the settings, or download it as an audio file.

That’s all for today!

If you have any question or problem, contact the library!

020 8938 2520 library@tavi-port.nhs.uk