Web site owners can now also use our online text to speech solution ReadSpeaker Expanding Player with Embedded Highlighting on Mobile Apple devices such as the iPhone and iPad. Our new solution uses an HTML5 player per default to render the sound. Having both the text read out to you and highlighted is of great comfort to better understand what is being displayed on smaller screens.

When you click on the Settings link within the HTML5 Player area, you can also then choose if you want the highlighting option to be on a word per word and/or sentence basis or if you don’t want any highlighting. You can also adapt the speed of the reading.

Another important feature, when using a computer web browser to access a ReadSpeaker speech-enabled web site, is that when someone selects text and then clicks on the nearby listen button which shows up, a new mini player will appear providing immediate access to the listen function.

Other features that the Embedded Highlighting add-on offers are:

• Updated HTML code in the player which consists of 100% valid elements according to W3C’s recommendations.
• Improved highlighting engine which highlights words and/or sentences even better than in the previous version.
• Support for reading dynamic generated content, such as AJAX or Javascript, can easily be switched on.
• Auto detection and support for HTTPS web sites.
• Support for multiple players on the same page.
• More stable style sheets that do not conflict with websites’ existing CSS.
• New mechanisms that make it easier to customize default behavior and appearance.

We always try and get maximum playability for our different products when it comes to the different devices from which you can listen to web pages and blog posts. We have now just updated the compatibility of how ReadSpeaker webReader can stream the audio on iPhones as well as on the iPod Touch. We have configured our streamers so that they can now perfectly play back the audio for the iPhones and iPod Touch devices. This will help all our ReadSpeaker webReader web site owners and bloggers make their content even more usable for their readers who use an iPhone for example to listen to what they have to say. We have also changed the “Download mp3” under the player to “Play mp3” for those users that don’t have Flash so that they can always save the mp3 to their computer by right clicking on the link and saving the link. We are continually looking at ways to improve how are products are used and hope that this addition will help our growing number of users out there!