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Re: Acrobat Read Out Loud mistakenly reads letter as Roman Numeral

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Jul 17, 2014 11:32AM

This is exactly why we do not recommend using Read Out Loud in Acrobat or
Reader and have been asking Adobe to remove it from both applications since
it was added. It is a less than bare bones "here is an example of what text
to speech might sound like" and is NOT a substitute for "real" TTS or screen
reading technology.

Never validate using Read Out Loud.

Cheers, Karen