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How do I enable text highlighting on the computer?

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You can get the web app to highlight the words as it reads out your document in your Speechify library on your PC, desktop or laptop

  1. Sign in to app.speechify.com using your Speechify account credentials, preferably using a Chromium browser.
  2. Open the file that you want to listen to.
  3. Click on 'More' on the left side toolbar and enable the 'Highlighting' toggle under the Display section.
  4. This feature will let the web app highlight the sentence as it reads along.

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Cliff Weitzman

Cliff Weitzman

CEO/Founder of Speechify

Cliff Weitzman is a dyslexia advocate and the CEO and founder of Speechify, the #1 text-to-speech app in the world, totaling over 100,000 5-star reviews and ranking first place in the App Store for the News & Magazines category. In 2017, Weitzman was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his work making the internet more accessible to people with learning disabilities. Cliff Weitzman has been featured in EdSurge, Inc., PC Mag, Entrepreneur, Mashable, among other leading outlets.

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