RE: A Question About Reading Continuously in iBooks in iOS 8.2

2015-03-18 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Marie and Everyone Who Replied to my Question: Thank you all for reminding me about the Speak Screen feature. As it turns out, in iBooks, at least, Speak Screen results in two different scenarios, the second of which is exactly what I want or, more accurately, reflects the scenario in

Re: A Question About Reading Continuously in iBooks in iOS 8.2

2015-03-18 Thread Joanne Chua
Hi, i'm not sure what exactly speak screen does, and i have no experience with it. However, two finger flick down on ibooks on the text always do continue reading from VO anyway. It does not change from ios7 to 8.2 Do i missed something on ibooks? And, what does speak screen exactly be useful

RE: A Question About Reading Continuously in iBooks in iOS 8.2

2015-03-18 Thread Rose Combs
Huh? I tried speak screen but normally I just swipe two fingers down in iBooks and it reads continuously anyway, I still have not seen the true value of speak screen. However, my brain is pretty fried trying to complete training for a new job. Rose Combs roseco...@q.com A picture may be

Re: A Question About Reading Continuously in iBooks in iOS 8.2

2015-03-18 Thread Teresa Cochran
Speak screen uses text to speech to read the screen, but not with Voiceover. You could theoetically multitask using Voiceover in other apps while reading a book. I might think that you could do this with Braille only using Voiceover while speak Screen is reading the audio in iBooks, but I

Re: A Question About Reading Continuously in iBooks in iOS 8.2

2015-03-18 Thread M.Nelson
The advantage of speak screen is that it continues to read even when the screen locks, whereas voiceover will cease reading on a locked screen. In addition you have the option to select a different voice and speed with speak screen, not available with the normal voiceover read-all. Marie

RE: A Question About Reading Continuously in iBooks in iOS 8.2

2015-03-18 Thread Rose Combs
OK, if you say so, I did not see it working all that well. Rose Combs roseco...@q.com A picture may be worth a thousand words but it takes up three times the memory! -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent:

RE: A Question About Reading Continuously in iBooks in iOS 8.2

2015-03-17 Thread Rose Combs
I did this recently had Alex as my voice for normal use, and when it started to read it was Samantha reading but every page Alex would announce the page number. I stopped that and just swiped two fingers down in I books and he read continuously without me having to hear every page number, sure

Re: A Question About Reading Continuously in iBooks in iOS 8.2

2015-03-17 Thread M.Nelson
Using the speak Screen function will let the book continue when the screen locks. First turn it on and select the voice you want to use and the speed in Accessibility setting under Speech. then when in an IBook, first touch the status bar and then do the two finger swipe down to begin reading