Radio theatre
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Where: Reader › ⋮ › Radio theatre; Tools › Radio theatre (you choose a document and it is read with the switch on).
Reads dialogue in different voices. A single switch: when on, the quoted speech in a novel, a children's book or an English lesson dialogue is read in voices different from the narrator's. The voice switches to a character when a quote opens and back to the narrator at the closing quote; what follows, such as "…he said", and footnote numbers stay with the narrator. Short quotes of a word or two stay in the narrator's voice. The character voice changes with each new paragraph of speech, so two people talking to each other are heard in separate voices. Word highlighting and sentence following carry on as normal.
- 1Open the document and tap "Radio theatre" in the ⋮ menu (it says "Read dialogue in different voices" below); a tick appears next to it.
- 2Start listening. If you turn it on or off while reading, it continues from the same sentence with the new voices.
- 3To turn it off, tap the same row again.
Free and Pro: The switch is free. With Cloud selected, characters are read with other cloud voices and the usual voice minutes are used; with the device and natural voices, characters are told apart by pitch, for free.
Tip: It works with translation on too. When you save as an audio file, the character voices go into the file too.
Web (quillo.tr): On quillo.tr, reader › ⋮ › Radio theatre. With the browser voice characters are told apart by pitch; with Cloud, by different voices.
iPhone: Reader › ⋯ › Radio theatre ("Read dialogue in different voices"). With Cloud, quoted speech is read in different voices and the narration in the selected voice.