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Casio EW-B2000C User Manual

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Listening to a Synthesized Voice Pronunciation

You can play the reading of terms, phrases, and examples of all built-
in languages while a defi nition or comment screen is on the display.

Audio may not be available for certain dictionaries.
Each dictionary is preset with an appropriate pronunciation language,
but the reading feature is disabled for some dictionaries. If the reading
feature is disabled for a dictionary you are using, you can select the
pronunciation language you want. (page 89)

1

While a term defi nition

or explanation screen is
displayed, press

and

then

.

This selects one of the terms or
example sentences for reading,
and causes

to appear

on the display.

An icon (such as

) will

appear on the screen indicating
the pronunciation language.

2

Use and

to select the term, phrase, or example you want

to hear.

You can press

to shorten the selection by removing the highlighting

starting from the fi rst (leftmost) word of the phrase or example that is
highlighted. You also could press

or

to shorten the

highlighting from the last (rightmost) word of the phrase or example.

3

Press

.

This will sound the reading of the term or example.

4

To exit reading, press

.

Your electronic dictionary analyzes sentences before reading them.
The pronunciation produced by the electronic dictionary may not be
correct if there is more than one pronunciation for a term or if the term
contains numerals.
Long sentences can result in long pauses, breaks, and incorrect
pronunciation.
Any text inside of parentheses is skipped.