RE: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-16 Thread Chip Orange
do people use voicedream reader just curious I use it for a lot of reasons. 1. Higher quality reading voices. 2. The ability to easily bookmark my place to go back to a particular passage. 3. the ability to highlight text and then export that to a file. When you export the highlight

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-12 Thread Monica Jones
Yes, I agree. It was better then when I did use it. -Original Message- From: Russ Kiehne Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 8:36 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious I just wished Apple had left things the way they were in itunes 11

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-11 Thread Russ Kiehne
fooled with it. -Original Message- From: Russ Kiehne Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2016 8:38 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious NO, I use itunes file sharing. Each file is over 600mb in size. Dropbox would take a lot longer to do

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-10 Thread Monica Jones
with it. -Original Message- From: Russ Kiehne Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2016 8:38 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious NO, I use itunes file sharing. Each file is over 600mb in size. Dropbox would take a lot longer to do the transfer. -Original

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-10 Thread Russ Kiehne
NO, I use itunes file sharing. Each file is over 600mb in size. Dropbox would take a lot longer to do the transfer. -Original Message- From: Monica Jones Sent: Saturday, July 9, 2016 10:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-09 Thread Monica Jones
use voicedream reader just curious Voice dream reader is one of my favorite apps. I use it to read books from bookshare, listen to my collection of old time radio shows and books in the epub format. -Original Message- From: Eden Kizer Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2016 11:01 AM To: viphone

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-09 Thread Monica Jones
Yes, I agree with you. I like that I can get my books from one app as well. I also use it for all the reasons others have given. -Original Message- From: Brett Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2016 6:46 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: why do people use voicedream reader just

RE: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-08 Thread Jeremy
: Voice Dream Reader on the App Store - https://is.gd/qkUQgB JR -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Leo Bado Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 7:59 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: why do people use voicedream reader just

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-08 Thread Leo Bado
oh my god, I don't know how could I survive without vdr, definetely not in my life plan. El 08/07/2016 a las 07:59 a.m., Gerardo Corripio escribió: > > I use VoiceDream Reader for audiobooks especially; no having to cope > with transfering them via ITunes! and yes also for Daisy Bookshare

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-08 Thread Gerardo Corripio
I use VoiceDream Reader for audiobooks especially; no having to cope with transfering them via ITunes! and yes also for Daisy Bookshare books as well. Ilove the fact that Voice Dream Reader has a one-way of doing things, regardless of what format one reads in! El 08/07/2016 07:42 a.m., Russ

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-08 Thread Russ Kiehne
Voice dream reader is one of my favorite apps. I use it to read books from bookshare, listen to my collection of old time radio shows and books in the epub format. -Original Message- From: Eden Kizer Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2016 11:01 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: why do

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-08 Thread englishrider91
Did I hear that right? You find that playing something with VDR while having the screen locked drains your battery faster than playing something with VDR while having your screen unlocked? That's really, really weird! I can't help you with the HQ Daniel voice, but I think I remember hearing

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-08 Thread 'Sandratomkins' via VIPhone
Richard, I would agree with you on all of these reasons for using VD are, X set one. these high quality voices of which you speak, are not available to me any longer! I still cannot use Daniel enhanced when in "play" mode. I still cannot read download or use Vittorio my favourite and bought

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-08 Thread Gordan Radić
Hi! I see some folks already gave you some answers I was thinking about so I'll just drop in what is missing. 1. When reading text, web pages or something with Voice Over you need to have your device unlocked and you have to watch wether you going to accidentally

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-07 Thread englishrider91
255 words per minute is a comfortable rate for me with the NeoSpeech voices. I can actually probably go a bit higher than that, considering that my voiceOver rate is a bit faster than that, but it's slow enough for me to read comfortably, while at the same time not being too slow. Thanks, Ari

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-07 Thread kelby carlson
Wish I was at 700 words per minute as a listening rate I'm close, but not there; I may have hit a threshold but I am trying to think of strategies to overcome it. On 7/7/16, Brett wrote: > > Hi, > > Apart from the other ansers you have received, I use it for those reasons

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-07 Thread Brett
Hi, Apart from the other ansers you have received, I use it for those reasons as well. Also it gives a conveanient interface to work with that will read well with most file types, including pdf and powerpoint. One app for almost everything instead of having to use several different apps.

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-07 Thread r . d . t . prater
I like the bookshare integration, and the voices available. Eden Kizer writes: > Hi, I'm just curious why do people use voicedream reader when we can > read with voiceover to read pretty much anything. Just curious what is > the advantage? Just curious since so many

RE: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-07 Thread Pinky
It is a great at for downloading and reading books from Bookshare. Ed From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eden Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2016 2:19 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com; Woody Anna Dresner Subject: Re: why do people use voicedream reader

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-07 Thread Eden
The higher quality voices may be the only thing of interest to me as I do not enjoy synthetic speech as a rule and mostly use braille, but I've got severe carpal tunnel and read very fast so am looking for a more pleasurable way to read books that are only available with sznthetic speech not

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-07 Thread Richard Turner
I use it for a lot of reasons. 1. Higher quality reading voices. 2. The ability to easily bookmark my place to go back to a particular passage. 3. the ability to highlight text and then export that to a file. When you export the highlight, it includes the chapter and page number of where the

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-07 Thread Eden
Thanks for the messages. I can see why if it saves your place. I have daisy players so no need for me, but sounds like a good app. On July 7, 2016 11:49:09 AM PDT, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: >Hi, > >It also lets you read Bookshare and DAISY books and play audio files,

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-07 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi, It also lets you read Bookshare and DAISY books and play audio files, keeping your place in those files. Best, Anna > On Jul 7, 2016, at 1:23 PM, Wayne Merritt wrote: > > Hello. I've used it before to read documents, such as Word and text > files, EPUB files, and

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

2016-07-07 Thread Wayne Merritt
Hello. I've used it before to read documents, such as Word and text files, EPUB files, and documents from DropBox. Before VoiceOver and other iOS applications got better at filtering out extra information, for awhile I used VDR to get the text of and read articles from tweets/web addresses. I know