Site Planning, Organisation and Safety

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After completing this Lesson, learners:

• Can read scientific articles, journals and publications related to forest harvesting
• Can use the technical forestry terms in context
• Can express own opinions and present arguments
• Can write a summary of articles and make presentations

• What would be the first thing you might do if you were asked to plan a harvesting site?

Read pages: 1.1, 1.46, 1.51, 1.77, 1.83 and 1.84, and answer the exercises included in this Lesson.

If you need to practice on your own when no human help is around and you don't mind the robotic voice(s) of a computer, here is what you can do:

On Windows computers

Webpages

Use any of the many free "text-to-speech" extensions for your web browser. For the Chrome web browser, for example, some of the most popular text-to-speech extensions include Select and speak, Text to speech, Read Aloud: a Text to Speech Voice Reader, Speak and text, etc.

To download and install, for example, the Select and speak extension on your Chrome bookmarks bar:

1. Click on the Apps icon to go to the Chrome App Store or go directly to the address: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions
2. Search for Select and speak, download it and install the extension on your Chrome browser. You may wish to download and install more than one extensions and select the one to your liking.

To listen to some text on a webpage converted to speech:

• If you want to listen to text directly from a webpage, the only available option is the Select and Speak - Text to Speech extension for the Chrome browser, with US English only. To use it:
1. Select the text you are interested in on the respective Forest Workers Online Training Tool (FWOTT) webpage, and
2. Click on the Select and Speak - Text to Speech icon on your Google extensions bar to listen to the text.

• If you want to listen to the text in UK English:
1. Click on the Text To Speech icon on your Chrome extensions bar
2. In the opening tab, Paste (Ctrl+V) the selected text in the Copy & Paste Text To Synthesize (or enter URL) box
3. In the Clictext

1. k to Choose a Voice dropdown menu, select the appropriate voice (e.g. Google UK English Male)
2. Select and copy (Ctrl+C) the text you are interested in on the FWOTT webpage
3. Make other necessary adjustments, such as Rate and Pitch, and
4. Click on the Speak! button on the page

If you would like to have some text in a text file converted to speech watch the tutorial at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U25vhhE50kI. Alternatively, search the Web for tutorials on how to convert text to speech.

.pdf files

To listen to text in .pdf files, use the Read Out Loud facility of the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

If you do not have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed, you may download it for free from: https://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/ and install it on your computer.

Once installed:

1. Open your .pdf file with Adobe Acrobat Reader
2. Go to Edit > Preferences > Reading
3. In the section Read Out Loud, make any necessary changes; for example, uncheck the button Use default voice to select a voice suitable to your taste, or uncheck the button Use default speech attributes to select the Pitch and/or the Words Per Minute attribute to increase or decrease the reading speed
4. Click OK to save your selection
5. Go back to the .pdf document in Acrobat Reader, click View > Read Out Loud > Activate Read Out Loud
6. Click again on View > Read Out Loud > Read This Page Only or Read to End of Document

On Mac computers

The text-to-speech facility is installed by default on your Mac computer.
To customize it, press System Preferences > Accessibility > Speech and make your selections including System Voice, Speaking Rate, etc.

Webpages

To listen to text on webpages:

1. Open the FWOTT page containing the text you are interested in
2. Select the text that you want to listen to
3. Right click on the page (Control+Enter), press Speech > Start speaking

.pdf files

To listen to .pdf files:

1. Open the .pdf file in macOS Preview`