Tag Types
There are four types of tags in GhostReader Plus: custom, default, language, and voice. All tags are displayed under one of these four types in the Tags pane. Default, language, and voice tags are predefined (although you can still alter some of their settings), while custom tags are created by you.
Default Tags
Bookmark
Places a bookmark in your text. Using bookmark tags, you can create a kind of table of contents for your document.

Spelling Mode
Changes the way selected text is read. By default, it’s set to On, which means GhostReader Plus will read out each letter or digit in the text separately, one after another, effectively spelling out what is written.

Speech Rate
Changes the speed at which text is read, measured in words per minute (wpm). You can set a speech rate of anything between 10 and 800 wpm.

Volume
Changes the volume at which the text is spoken. Set as a percentage of the computer’s current system volume.

Silence
Inserts a pause in the speech. You can choose from five different lengths of pause: very short, short, medium, long, and very long.

Do Not Read
Makes the application ignore the text that goes after the start marker of the tag and immediately proceed to reading the text after the end marker.

Language Tags
These tags change the language in which a document or part of the text is read. They can be added automatically (see the Language Detection topic in the Special Tag Options section of this guide) or you can place them manually where appropriate.

Voice Tags
These tags change the voice in which a document or part of the text is read. By default, the voice specified in GhostReader Plus preferences is used for each language. To use a different voice, click an existing voice tag and choose the voice you want, or add a new voice tag from the Tags pane. The voices there are sorted by language, gender, and name.

Custom Tags
Custom tags allow you to combine the properties of several predefined tags into a single tag to get just the right spoken voice to suit the context of your text. You can then apply this combination of settings to your text wherever you need in your document. For example, you can create a custom tag that defines the voice, speech rate, and volume for a character in a story, and then use the tag wherever this character speaks.
To create a custom tag, click the Plus button in the Custom Tags area of the Tags pane. You can enter a name for your custom tag, choose a color and image for its markers, and set up the attributes that you want it to bring to the spoken text.
To finish creating your tag, click the Create button. The tag appears in the Tags pane.

Once you have created a custom tag, you can drag it to any other GhostReader Plus document to use it there.
Deleting Custom Tags
To delete a custom tag from a document completely, right-click it in the Tags pane and choose Delete from the shortcut menu. All occurrences of the tag in the current document will be removed automatically.
You can delete a single instance of a tag in the same way as you would with default tags — just click the tag marker in the document, and then click Delete Tag.
Changing Custom Tags
After you have added a custom tag, you may want to change some of its settings — for example, increase the volume or choose a different voice.
If you want to do this only in one particular place in your text, click the tag’s marker in that location and make the necessary changes. You can always go back to the custom tag’s initial settings by clicking the Revert to Master button.
If you want to change the settings of the tag in every place it occurs in your document, click the pencil icon next to the tag’s name in the in the Custom Tags area of the Tags pane.
