Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
I went ahead yesterday and did the upgrade. I very much like the new features in voice dream reader. -Original Message- From: Richard Turner Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 9:21 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 Voice Dream Reader is working fine now. Neither Winston nor I have any idea what happened when I updated to the latest version. I sent him my database and it worked fine on his device. He sent it back with the other two files the app creates, I loaded them into my app and it is working great. My apologies for causing anyone to delay upgrading. If anyone else runs into trouble after the upgrade, contact Winston and follow his instructions. Enjoy, Richard (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) On Oct 25, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Cristóbal crismuno...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the dev tweeted yesterday that Daisy 2.0 audiobooks books will be supported in a future update. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rick Alfaro Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 7:41 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 I was finally able to get an audio book into VDR. Here's what I did. The book was in a zip file so I extracted it into my Dropbox folder. The folder structure of the zip was maintained so I wound up with a folder under my DB folder containing the mp3 files. I then tapped on add from the VDR home screen and chose Dropbox from the resulting dialog. I was then presented with the contents of my DB folder so I flicked down to the folder containing the mp3 files and opened it up. The mp3 files were now showing so I simply double tapped on each file which VDR happily downloaded. The 2 files that comprised the audio book now show up on the home screen. At this point, you can start playing the file via normal methods. I decided to go a step further however, and put both of the mp3 files into a play list. This is something you will have to play with and figure out because I found it somewhat confusing but I finally did wind up getting them into a playlist but at this time can't give a step by step of exactly how, just know that its doable. I think the playlist creation needs to be a bit more intuitive but maybe it's just me. I would like to be able to rename the playlist and haven't yet discovered how but it's probably there under the edit button. I do agree it would be great if one could simply import the whole zip file from DB and have VDR deal with it automatically, discarding any files that sometimes are in these zips and creating a play list of the mp3 files with a prompt to name the play list. That would be totally awesome. So far, VDR is keeping its place in the audio book perfectly. the swipe up and down on the play button works great, and you can even change the speed of the playback by swiping up and down while the voice settings is focused. I don't usually speed up any spoken audio but in my short test, it worked great with no degradation of audio at all. Pitch remained constant and I heard no added artifacts in the audio. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 10:20 AM, Brett wrote: Hi, I plan to have a look at this tomorrow, but I am hoping that it relies on the book being zipped as it does with Daisy files. Sent with Siri from Brett's iPhone On 26 Oct 2013, at 12:24 am, Rick Alfaro rick.alf...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't tried any of the new text selection stuff nor the playing of mp3 books because I've not found a source for instructions on these new features. The help file that is part of the app says it is for v2.6. I haven't tried the devs web site yet however. If anyone knows how to get mp3 audio books into VDR I'd like to know. I'm sure it has to do with using Dropbox which is fine but not sure how it handles books with multiple mp3 files. I'm guessing one creates some sort of play list but not sure. I haven't had any trouble so far but as I said, haven't tried the text selection stuff that someone reported here. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 8:50 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote: Have you tried it as of yet? Did you have any problems? -Original Message- From: Rick Alfaro Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:25 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 Raul, Have you figured out yet how mp3 audio books are added? Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/24/2013 12:26 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: Hi, no idea. It can't play any sort of DRM protected books. So, it depends on which kinds of daisy books. You might want to drop a line to the developer and ask. He's very good about responding. -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 10/24/2013 9:20 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Do you think this app will ever be able to play audio Daisy books? I would love
Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
Have you tried it as of yet? Did you have any problems? -Original Message- From: Rick Alfaro Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:25 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 Raul, Have you figured out yet how mp3 audio books are added? Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/24/2013 12:26 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: Hi, no idea. It can't play any sort of DRM protected books. So, it depends on which kinds of daisy books. You might want to drop a line to the developer and ask. He's very good about responding. -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 10/24/2013 9:20 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Do you think this app will ever be able to play audio Daisy books? I would love to be able to access and copy books across from drop box and play them right inside this app. Thanks On 24 Oct 2013, at 15:15, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: I haven't tried it just yet, but this latest update promises to be a very nice one for sure. The below are the changes in the latest version which I just saw in the App Store. At the end of the message is a link to the app for those who may not know what Voice Dream Reader is so you can find out for yourself. ? What's New in Version 2.9.0 Posted Oct 23, 2013 This major release significantly improves usability for VoiceOver users: - Incredibly easy-to-use text selection mechanism. Copy to clipboard, lookup words in the dictionary, highlight, and add your own notes. - Extensive use of new and innovative swipe-enabled buttons for VoiceOver users. Swipe the Voice Settings button to change the speed rate. Rewind and Fast Forward are built into the Play-Pause button as up and down swipes. - The text slider that moves the speech cursor by 5% has been modified so that swiping up moves toward the beginning of the text. The directions have been reversed from previous releases so that it now behaves the same way as the other swipe-enabled controls. For iOS 7, you can double tap the slider to enter a percent value. Plus delicious goodies for everyone: - Experimental support for MP3 audio books. Yes, it remembers where you leave off just like text. And you make add bookmarks. - Pronunciation dictionary import and export. View the entire pronunciation dictionary in an editable text window, allowing editing, copying, and pasting, plus exporting to another app like Dropbox and share it with others via email. - Launching Voice Dream Reader from Mobile Safari. Create a bookmark with the following URL. Next time you select this bookmark, it'll open the current web page in Voice Dream Reader: javascript:window.location=com.voicedream.reader://open?url=+window.location - Change speech rate on the fly with two-finger up or down swipes. (Not for VoiceOver users). - Fixed several problems with using iOS 7 built-in voices. - A lot of the minor improvements and bug fixes. The link is https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader-text-to/id496177674?mt=8 -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search
Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
I tried importing one using dropbox but it didn't work. On 10/25/13, Russ Kiehne russ94...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried it as of yet? Did you have any problems? -Original Message- From: Rick Alfaro Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:25 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 Raul, Have you figured out yet how mp3 audio books are added? Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/24/2013 12:26 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: Hi, no idea. It can't play any sort of DRM protected books. So, it depends on which kinds of daisy books. You might want to drop a line to the developer and ask. He's very good about responding. -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 10/24/2013 9:20 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Do you think this app will ever be able to play audio Daisy books? I would love to be able to access and copy books across from drop box and play them right inside this app. Thanks On 24 Oct 2013, at 15:15, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: I haven't tried it just yet, but this latest update promises to be a very nice one for sure. The below are the changes in the latest version which I just saw in the App Store. At the end of the message is a link to the app for those who may not know what Voice Dream Reader is so you can find out for yourself. ? What's New in Version 2.9.0 Posted Oct 23, 2013 This major release significantly improves usability for VoiceOver users: - Incredibly easy-to-use text selection mechanism. Copy to clipboard, lookup words in the dictionary, highlight, and add your own notes. - Extensive use of new and innovative swipe-enabled buttons for VoiceOver users. Swipe the Voice Settings button to change the speed rate. Rewind and Fast Forward are built into the Play-Pause button as up and down swipes. - The text slider that moves the speech cursor by 5% has been modified so that swiping up moves toward the beginning of the text. The directions have been reversed from previous releases so that it now behaves the same way as the other swipe-enabled controls. For iOS 7, you can double tap the slider to enter a percent value. Plus delicious goodies for everyone: - Experimental support for MP3 audio books. Yes, it remembers where you leave off just like text. And you make add bookmarks. - Pronunciation dictionary import and export. View the entire pronunciation dictionary in an editable text window, allowing editing, copying, and pasting, plus exporting to another app like Dropbox and share it with others via email. - Launching Voice Dream Reader from Mobile Safari. Create a bookmark with the following URL. Next time you select this bookmark, it'll open the current web page in Voice Dream Reader: javascript:window.location=com.voicedream.reader://open?url=+window.location - Change speech rate on the fly with two-finger up or down swipes. (Not for VoiceOver users). - Fixed several problems with using iOS 7 built-in voices. - A lot of the minor improvements and bug fixes. The link is https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader-text-to/id496177674?mt=8 -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https
Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
I haven't tried any of the new text selection stuff nor the playing of mp3 books because I've not found a source for instructions on these new features. The help file that is part of the app says it is for v2.6. I haven't tried the devs web site yet however. If anyone knows how to get mp3 audio books into VDR I'd like to know. I'm sure it has to do with using Dropbox which is fine but not sure how it handles books with multiple mp3 files. I'm guessing one creates some sort of play list but not sure. I haven't had any trouble so far but as I said, haven't tried the text selection stuff that someone reported here. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 8:50 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote: Have you tried it as of yet? Did you have any problems? -Original Message- From: Rick Alfaro Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:25 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 Raul, Have you figured out yet how mp3 audio books are added? Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/24/2013 12:26 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: Hi, no idea. It can't play any sort of DRM protected books. So, it depends on which kinds of daisy books. You might want to drop a line to the developer and ask. He's very good about responding. -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 10/24/2013 9:20 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Do you think this app will ever be able to play audio Daisy books? I would love to be able to access and copy books across from drop box and play them right inside this app. Thanks On 24 Oct 2013, at 15:15, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: I haven't tried it just yet, but this latest update promises to be a very nice one for sure. The below are the changes in the latest version which I just saw in the App Store. At the end of the message is a link to the app for those who may not know what Voice Dream Reader is so you can find out for yourself. ? What's New in Version 2.9.0 Posted Oct 23, 2013 This major release significantly improves usability for VoiceOver users: - Incredibly easy-to-use text selection mechanism. Copy to clipboard, lookup words in the dictionary, highlight, and add your own notes. - Extensive use of new and innovative swipe-enabled buttons for VoiceOver users. Swipe the Voice Settings button to change the speed rate. Rewind and Fast Forward are built into the Play-Pause button as up and down swipes. - The text slider that moves the speech cursor by 5% has been modified so that swiping up moves toward the beginning of the text. The directions have been reversed from previous releases so that it now behaves the same way as the other swipe-enabled controls. For iOS 7, you can double tap the slider to enter a percent value. Plus delicious goodies for everyone: - Experimental support for MP3 audio books. Yes, it remembers where you leave off just like text. And you make add bookmarks. - Pronunciation dictionary import and export. View the entire pronunciation dictionary in an editable text window, allowing editing, copying, and pasting, plus exporting to another app like Dropbox and share it with others via email. - Launching Voice Dream Reader from Mobile Safari. Create a bookmark with the following URL. Next time you select this bookmark, it'll open the current web page in Voice Dream Reader: javascript:window.location=com.voicedream.reader://open?url=+window.location - Change speech rate on the fly with two-finger up or down swipes. (Not for VoiceOver users). - Fixed several problems with using iOS 7 built-in voices. - A lot of the minor improvements and bug fixes. The link is https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader-text-to/id496177674?mt=8 -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach
Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
I also tried placing the file in the program using the file share option in ITunes. I don't see the file there either. I also didn't see any settings relating to Audio in the app. On 10/25/13, Rick Alfaro rick.alf...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't tried any of the new text selection stuff nor the playing of mp3 books because I've not found a source for instructions on these new features. The help file that is part of the app says it is for v2.6. I haven't tried the devs web site yet however. If anyone knows how to get mp3 audio books into VDR I'd like to know. I'm sure it has to do with using Dropbox which is fine but not sure how it handles books with multiple mp3 files. I'm guessing one creates some sort of play list but not sure. I haven't had any trouble so far but as I said, haven't tried the text selection stuff that someone reported here. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 8:50 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote: Have you tried it as of yet? Did you have any problems? -Original Message- From: Rick Alfaro Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:25 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 Raul, Have you figured out yet how mp3 audio books are added? Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/24/2013 12:26 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: Hi, no idea. It can't play any sort of DRM protected books. So, it depends on which kinds of daisy books. You might want to drop a line to the developer and ask. He's very good about responding. -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 10/24/2013 9:20 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Do you think this app will ever be able to play audio Daisy books? I would love to be able to access and copy books across from drop box and play them right inside this app. Thanks On 24 Oct 2013, at 15:15, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: I haven't tried it just yet, but this latest update promises to be a very nice one for sure. The below are the changes in the latest version which I just saw in the App Store. At the end of the message is a link to the app for those who may not know what Voice Dream Reader is so you can find out for yourself. ? What's New in Version 2.9.0 Posted Oct 23, 2013 This major release significantly improves usability for VoiceOver users: - Incredibly easy-to-use text selection mechanism. Copy to clipboard, lookup words in the dictionary, highlight, and add your own notes. - Extensive use of new and innovative swipe-enabled buttons for VoiceOver users. Swipe the Voice Settings button to change the speed rate. Rewind and Fast Forward are built into the Play-Pause button as up and down swipes. - The text slider that moves the speech cursor by 5% has been modified so that swiping up moves toward the beginning of the text. The directions have been reversed from previous releases so that it now behaves the same way as the other swipe-enabled controls. For iOS 7, you can double tap the slider to enter a percent value. Plus delicious goodies for everyone: - Experimental support for MP3 audio books. Yes, it remembers where you leave off just like text. And you make add bookmarks. - Pronunciation dictionary import and export. View the entire pronunciation dictionary in an editable text window, allowing editing, copying, and pasting, plus exporting to another app like Dropbox and share it with others via email. - Launching Voice Dream Reader from Mobile Safari. Create a bookmark with the following URL. Next time you select this bookmark, it'll open the current web page in Voice Dream Reader: javascript:window.location=com.voicedream.reader://open?url=+window.location - Change speech rate on the fly with two-finger up or down swipes. (Not for VoiceOver users). - Fixed several problems with using iOS 7 built-in voices. - A lot of the minor improvements and bug fixes. The link is https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader-text-to/id496177674?mt=8 -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options
Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
I think for now, I'll continue to use the older version. -Original Message- From: John Diakogeorgiou Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 6:18 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 I tried importing one using dropbox but it didn't work. On 10/25/13, Russ Kiehne russ94...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried it as of yet? Did you have any problems? -Original Message- From: Rick Alfaro Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:25 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 Raul, Have you figured out yet how mp3 audio books are added? Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/24/2013 12:26 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: Hi, no idea. It can't play any sort of DRM protected books. So, it depends on which kinds of daisy books. You might want to drop a line to the developer and ask. He's very good about responding. -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 10/24/2013 9:20 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Do you think this app will ever be able to play audio Daisy books? I would love to be able to access and copy books across from drop box and play them right inside this app. Thanks On 24 Oct 2013, at 15:15, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: I haven't tried it just yet, but this latest update promises to be a very nice one for sure. The below are the changes in the latest version which I just saw in the App Store. At the end of the message is a link to the app for those who may not know what Voice Dream Reader is so you can find out for yourself. ? What's New in Version 2.9.0 Posted Oct 23, 2013 This major release significantly improves usability for VoiceOver users: - Incredibly easy-to-use text selection mechanism. Copy to clipboard, lookup words in the dictionary, highlight, and add your own notes. - Extensive use of new and innovative swipe-enabled buttons for VoiceOver users. Swipe the Voice Settings button to change the speed rate. Rewind and Fast Forward are built into the Play-Pause button as up and down swipes. - The text slider that moves the speech cursor by 5% has been modified so that swiping up moves toward the beginning of the text. The directions have been reversed from previous releases so that it now behaves the same way as the other swipe-enabled controls. For iOS 7, you can double tap the slider to enter a percent value. Plus delicious goodies for everyone: - Experimental support for MP3 audio books. Yes, it remembers where you leave off just like text. And you make add bookmarks. - Pronunciation dictionary import and export. View the entire pronunciation dictionary in an editable text window, allowing editing, copying, and pasting, plus exporting to another app like Dropbox and share it with others via email. - Launching Voice Dream Reader from Mobile Safari. Create a bookmark with the following URL. Next time you select this bookmark, it'll open the current web page in Voice Dream Reader: javascript:window.location=com.voicedream.reader://open?url=+window.location - Change speech rate on the fly with two-finger up or down swipes. (Not for VoiceOver users). - Fixed several problems with using iOS 7 built-in voices. - A lot of the minor improvements and bug fixes. The link is https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader-text-to/id496177674?mt=8 -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from
Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
Hi, I had a try with the text copying stuff and it all worked fine. Quite easy to do. Sent with Siri from Brett's iPhone On 26 Oct 2013, at 12:29 am, John Diakogeorgiou jdiakoge2...@gmail.com wrote: I also tried placing the file in the program using the file share option in ITunes. I don't see the file there either. I also didn't see any settings relating to Audio in the app. On 10/25/13, Rick Alfaro rick.alf...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't tried any of the new text selection stuff nor the playing of mp3 books because I've not found a source for instructions on these new features. The help file that is part of the app says it is for v2.6. I haven't tried the devs web site yet however. If anyone knows how to get mp3 audio books into VDR I'd like to know. I'm sure it has to do with using Dropbox which is fine but not sure how it handles books with multiple mp3 files. I'm guessing one creates some sort of play list but not sure. I haven't had any trouble so far but as I said, haven't tried the text selection stuff that someone reported here. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 8:50 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote: Have you tried it as of yet? Did you have any problems? -Original Message- From: Rick Alfaro Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:25 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 Raul, Have you figured out yet how mp3 audio books are added? Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/24/2013 12:26 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: Hi, no idea. It can't play any sort of DRM protected books. So, it depends on which kinds of daisy books. You might want to drop a line to the developer and ask. He's very good about responding. -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 10/24/2013 9:20 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Do you think this app will ever be able to play audio Daisy books? I would love to be able to access and copy books across from drop box and play them right inside this app. Thanks On 24 Oct 2013, at 15:15, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: I haven't tried it just yet, but this latest update promises to be a very nice one for sure. The below are the changes in the latest version which I just saw in the App Store. At the end of the message is a link to the app for those who may not know what Voice Dream Reader is so you can find out for yourself. ? What's New in Version 2.9.0 Posted Oct 23, 2013 This major release significantly improves usability for VoiceOver users: - Incredibly easy-to-use text selection mechanism. Copy to clipboard, lookup words in the dictionary, highlight, and add your own notes. - Extensive use of new and innovative swipe-enabled buttons for VoiceOver users. Swipe the Voice Settings button to change the speed rate. Rewind and Fast Forward are built into the Play-Pause button as up and down swipes. - The text slider that moves the speech cursor by 5% has been modified so that swiping up moves toward the beginning of the text. The directions have been reversed from previous releases so that it now behaves the same way as the other swipe-enabled controls. For iOS 7, you can double tap the slider to enter a percent value. Plus delicious goodies for everyone: - Experimental support for MP3 audio books. Yes, it remembers where you leave off just like text. And you make add bookmarks. - Pronunciation dictionary import and export. View the entire pronunciation dictionary in an editable text window, allowing editing, copying, and pasting, plus exporting to another app like Dropbox and share it with others via email. - Launching Voice Dream Reader from Mobile Safari. Create a bookmark with the following URL. Next time you select this bookmark, it'll open the current web page in Voice Dream Reader: javascript:window.location=com.voicedream.reader://open?url=+window.location - Change speech rate on the fly with two-finger up or down swipes. (Not for VoiceOver users). - Fixed several problems with using iOS 7 built-in voices. - A lot of the minor improvements and bug fixes. The link is https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader-text-to/id496177674?mt=8 -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group
Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
I was finally able to get an audio book into VDR. Here's what I did. The book was in a zip file so I extracted it into my Dropbox folder. The folder structure of the zip was maintained so I wound up with a folder under my DB folder containing the mp3 files. I then tapped on add from the VDR home screen and chose Dropbox from the resulting dialog. I was then presented with the contents of my DB folder so I flicked down to the folder containing the mp3 files and opened it up. The mp3 files were now showing so I simply double tapped on each file which VDR happily downloaded. The 2 files that comprised the audio book now show up on the home screen. At this point, you can start playing the file via normal methods. I decided to go a step further however, and put both of the mp3 files into a play list. This is something you will have to play with and figure out because I found it somewhat confusing but I finally did wind up getting them into a playlist but at this time can't give a step by step of exactly how, just know that its doable. I think the playlist creation needs to be a bit more intuitive but maybe it's just me. I would like to be able to rename the playlist and haven't yet discovered how but it's probably there under the edit button. I do agree it would be great if one could simply import the whole zip file from DB and have VDR deal with it automatically, discarding any files that sometimes are in these zips and creating a play list of the mp3 files with a prompt to name the play list. That would be totally awesome. So far, VDR is keeping its place in the audio book perfectly. the swipe up and down on the play button works great, and you can even change the speed of the playback by swiping up and down while the voice settings is focused. I don't usually speed up any spoken audio but in my short test, it worked great with no degradation of audio at all. Pitch remained constant and I heard no added artifacts in the audio. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 10:20 AM, Brett wrote: Hi, I plan to have a look at this tomorrow, but I am hoping that it relies on the book being zipped as it does with Daisy files. Sent with Siri from Brett's iPhone On 26 Oct 2013, at 12:24 am, Rick Alfaro rick.alf...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't tried any of the new text selection stuff nor the playing of mp3 books because I've not found a source for instructions on these new features. The help file that is part of the app says it is for v2.6. I haven't tried the devs web site yet however. If anyone knows how to get mp3 audio books into VDR I'd like to know. I'm sure it has to do with using Dropbox which is fine but not sure how it handles books with multiple mp3 files. I'm guessing one creates some sort of play list but not sure. I haven't had any trouble so far but as I said, haven't tried the text selection stuff that someone reported here. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 8:50 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote: Have you tried it as of yet? Did you have any problems? -Original Message- From: Rick Alfaro Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:25 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 Raul, Have you figured out yet how mp3 audio books are added? Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/24/2013 12:26 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: Hi, no idea. It can't play any sort of DRM protected books. So, it depends on which kinds of daisy books. You might want to drop a line to the developer and ask. He's very good about responding. -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 10/24/2013 9:20 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Do you think this app will ever be able to play audio Daisy books? I would love to be able to access and copy books across from drop box and play them right inside this app. Thanks On 24 Oct 2013, at 15:15, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: I haven't tried it just yet, but this latest update promises to be a very nice one for sure. The below are the changes in the latest version which I just saw in the App Store. At the end of the message is a link to the app for those who may not know what Voice Dream Reader is so you can find out for yourself. ? What's New in Version 2.9.0 Posted Oct 23, 2013 This major release significantly improves usability for VoiceOver users: - Incredibly easy-to-use text selection mechanism. Copy to clipboard, lookup words in the dictionary, highlight, and add your own notes. - Extensive use of new and innovative swipe-enabled buttons for VoiceOver users. Swipe the Voice Settings button to change the speed rate. Rewind and Fast Forward are built into the Play-Pause button as up and down swipes. - The text slider that moves the speech cursor by 5% has been modified so that swiping up moves toward the beginning of the text. The directions have been reversed from previous releases so
RE: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
I believe the dev tweeted yesterday that Daisy 2.0 audiobooks books will be supported in a future update. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rick Alfaro Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 7:41 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 I was finally able to get an audio book into VDR. Here's what I did. The book was in a zip file so I extracted it into my Dropbox folder. The folder structure of the zip was maintained so I wound up with a folder under my DB folder containing the mp3 files. I then tapped on add from the VDR home screen and chose Dropbox from the resulting dialog. I was then presented with the contents of my DB folder so I flicked down to the folder containing the mp3 files and opened it up. The mp3 files were now showing so I simply double tapped on each file which VDR happily downloaded. The 2 files that comprised the audio book now show up on the home screen. At this point, you can start playing the file via normal methods. I decided to go a step further however, and put both of the mp3 files into a play list. This is something you will have to play with and figure out because I found it somewhat confusing but I finally did wind up getting them into a playlist but at this time can't give a step by step of exactly how, just know that its doable. I think the playlist creation needs to be a bit more intuitive but maybe it's just me. I would like to be able to rename the playlist and haven't yet discovered how but it's probably there under the edit button. I do agree it would be great if one could simply import the whole zip file from DB and have VDR deal with it automatically, discarding any files that sometimes are in these zips and creating a play list of the mp3 files with a prompt to name the play list. That would be totally awesome. So far, VDR is keeping its place in the audio book perfectly. the swipe up and down on the play button works great, and you can even change the speed of the playback by swiping up and down while the voice settings is focused. I don't usually speed up any spoken audio but in my short test, it worked great with no degradation of audio at all. Pitch remained constant and I heard no added artifacts in the audio. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 10:20 AM, Brett wrote: Hi, I plan to have a look at this tomorrow, but I am hoping that it relies on the book being zipped as it does with Daisy files. Sent with Siri from Brett's iPhone On 26 Oct 2013, at 12:24 am, Rick Alfaro rick.alf...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't tried any of the new text selection stuff nor the playing of mp3 books because I've not found a source for instructions on these new features. The help file that is part of the app says it is for v2.6. I haven't tried the devs web site yet however. If anyone knows how to get mp3 audio books into VDR I'd like to know. I'm sure it has to do with using Dropbox which is fine but not sure how it handles books with multiple mp3 files. I'm guessing one creates some sort of play list but not sure. I haven't had any trouble so far but as I said, haven't tried the text selection stuff that someone reported here. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 8:50 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote: Have you tried it as of yet? Did you have any problems? -Original Message- From: Rick Alfaro Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:25 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 Raul, Have you figured out yet how mp3 audio books are added? Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/24/2013 12:26 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: Hi, no idea. It can't play any sort of DRM protected books. So, it depends on which kinds of daisy books. You might want to drop a line to the developer and ask. He's very good about responding. -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 10/24/2013 9:20 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Do you think this app will ever be able to play audio Daisy books? I would love to be able to access and copy books across from drop box and play them right inside this app. Thanks On 24 Oct 2013, at 15:15, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: I haven't tried it just yet, but this latest update promises to be a very nice one for sure. The below are the changes in the latest version which I just saw in the App Store. At the end of the message is a link to the app for those who may not know what Voice Dream Reader is so you can find out for yourself. ? What's New in Version 2.9.0 Posted Oct 23, 2013 This major release significantly improves usability for VoiceOver users: - Incredibly easy-to-use text selection mechanism. Copy to clipboard, lookup words in the dictionary, highlight, and add your own notes. - Extensive use of new and innovative swipe-enabled
Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
Voice Dream Reader is working fine now. Neither Winston nor I have any idea what happened when I updated to the latest version. I sent him my database and it worked fine on his device. He sent it back with the other two files the app creates, I loaded them into my app and it is working great. My apologies for causing anyone to delay upgrading. If anyone else runs into trouble after the upgrade, contact Winston and follow his instructions. Enjoy, Richard (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) On Oct 25, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Cristóbal crismuno...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the dev tweeted yesterday that Daisy 2.0 audiobooks books will be supported in a future update. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rick Alfaro Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 7:41 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 I was finally able to get an audio book into VDR. Here's what I did. The book was in a zip file so I extracted it into my Dropbox folder. The folder structure of the zip was maintained so I wound up with a folder under my DB folder containing the mp3 files. I then tapped on add from the VDR home screen and chose Dropbox from the resulting dialog. I was then presented with the contents of my DB folder so I flicked down to the folder containing the mp3 files and opened it up. The mp3 files were now showing so I simply double tapped on each file which VDR happily downloaded. The 2 files that comprised the audio book now show up on the home screen. At this point, you can start playing the file via normal methods. I decided to go a step further however, and put both of the mp3 files into a play list. This is something you will have to play with and figure out because I found it somewhat confusing but I finally did wind up getting them into a playlist but at this time can't give a step by step of exactly how, just know that its doable. I think the playlist creation needs to be a bit more intuitive but maybe it's just me. I would like to be able to rename the playlist and haven't yet discovered how but it's probably there under the edit button. I do agree it would be great if one could simply import the whole zip file from DB and have VDR deal with it automatically, discarding any files that sometimes are in these zips and creating a play list of the mp3 files with a prompt to name the play list. That would be totally awesome. So far, VDR is keeping its place in the audio book perfectly. the swipe up and down on the play button works great, and you can even change the speed of the playback by swiping up and down while the voice settings is focused. I don't usually speed up any spoken audio but in my short test, it worked great with no degradation of audio at all. Pitch remained constant and I heard no added artifacts in the audio. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 10:20 AM, Brett wrote: Hi, I plan to have a look at this tomorrow, but I am hoping that it relies on the book being zipped as it does with Daisy files. Sent with Siri from Brett's iPhone On 26 Oct 2013, at 12:24 am, Rick Alfaro rick.alf...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't tried any of the new text selection stuff nor the playing of mp3 books because I've not found a source for instructions on these new features. The help file that is part of the app says it is for v2.6. I haven't tried the devs web site yet however. If anyone knows how to get mp3 audio books into VDR I'd like to know. I'm sure it has to do with using Dropbox which is fine but not sure how it handles books with multiple mp3 files. I'm guessing one creates some sort of play list but not sure. I haven't had any trouble so far but as I said, haven't tried the text selection stuff that someone reported here. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 8:50 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote: Have you tried it as of yet? Did you have any problems? -Original Message- From: Rick Alfaro Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:25 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 Raul, Have you figured out yet how mp3 audio books are added? Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/24/2013 12:26 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: Hi, no idea. It can't play any sort of DRM protected books. So, it depends on which kinds of daisy books. You might want to drop a line to the developer and ask. He's very good about responding. -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 10/24/2013 9:20 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Do you think this app will ever be able to play audio Daisy books? I would love to be able to access and copy books across from drop box and play them right inside this app. Thanks On 24 Oct 2013, at 15:15, Raul A. Gallegos r
Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
How big were the files you used? On 10/25/13, Richard Turner richard.turne...@gmail.com wrote: Voice Dream Reader is working fine now. Neither Winston nor I have any idea what happened when I updated to the latest version. I sent him my database and it worked fine on his device. He sent it back with the other two files the app creates, I loaded them into my app and it is working great. My apologies for causing anyone to delay upgrading. If anyone else runs into trouble after the upgrade, contact Winston and follow his instructions. Enjoy, Richard (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) On Oct 25, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Cristóbal crismuno...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the dev tweeted yesterday that Daisy 2.0 audiobooks books will be supported in a future update. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rick Alfaro Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 7:41 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 I was finally able to get an audio book into VDR. Here's what I did. The book was in a zip file so I extracted it into my Dropbox folder. The folder structure of the zip was maintained so I wound up with a folder under my DB folder containing the mp3 files. I then tapped on add from the VDR home screen and chose Dropbox from the resulting dialog. I was then presented with the contents of my DB folder so I flicked down to the folder containing the mp3 files and opened it up. The mp3 files were now showing so I simply double tapped on each file which VDR happily downloaded. The 2 files that comprised the audio book now show up on the home screen. At this point, you can start playing the file via normal methods. I decided to go a step further however, and put both of the mp3 files into a play list. This is something you will have to play with and figure out because I found it somewhat confusing but I finally did wind up getting them into a playlist but at this time can't give a step by step of exactly how, just know that its doable. I think the playlist creation needs to be a bit more intuitive but maybe it's just me. I would like to be able to rename the playlist and haven't yet discovered how but it's probably there under the edit button. I do agree it would be great if one could simply import the whole zip file from DB and have VDR deal with it automatically, discarding any files that sometimes are in these zips and creating a play list of the mp3 files with a prompt to name the play list. That would be totally awesome. So far, VDR is keeping its place in the audio book perfectly. the swipe up and down on the play button works great, and you can even change the speed of the playback by swiping up and down while the voice settings is focused. I don't usually speed up any spoken audio but in my short test, it worked great with no degradation of audio at all. Pitch remained constant and I heard no added artifacts in the audio. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 10:20 AM, Brett wrote: Hi, I plan to have a look at this tomorrow, but I am hoping that it relies on the book being zipped as it does with Daisy files. Sent with Siri from Brett's iPhone On 26 Oct 2013, at 12:24 am, Rick Alfaro rick.alf...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't tried any of the new text selection stuff nor the playing of mp3 books because I've not found a source for instructions on these new features. The help file that is part of the app says it is for v2.6. I haven't tried the devs web site yet however. If anyone knows how to get mp3 audio books into VDR I'd like to know. I'm sure it has to do with using Dropbox which is fine but not sure how it handles books with multiple mp3 files. I'm guessing one creates some sort of play list but not sure. I haven't had any trouble so far but as I said, haven't tried the text selection stuff that someone reported here. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 8:50 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote: Have you tried it as of yet? Did you have any problems? -Original Message- From: Rick Alfaro Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:25 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 Raul, Have you figured out yet how mp3 audio books are added? Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/24/2013 12:26 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: Hi, no idea. It can't play any sort of DRM protected books. So, it depends on which kinds of daisy books. You might want to drop a line to the developer and ask. He's very good about responding. -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 10/24/2013 9:20 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Do you think this app will ever be able to play audio Daisy books? I would love to be able to access and copy books across from drop box and play them right inside this app. Thanks
Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
I am not sure what you want to know? The files were fairly large as I had a lot of books from bookshare on hand, but I didn't pay much attention to the size of the database and Winston said nothing about sizes. Richard (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) On Oct 25, 2013, at 2:49 PM, John Diakogeorgiou jdiakoge2...@gmail.com wrote: How big were the files you used? On 10/25/13, Richard Turner richard.turne...@gmail.com wrote: Voice Dream Reader is working fine now. Neither Winston nor I have any idea what happened when I updated to the latest version. I sent him my database and it worked fine on his device. He sent it back with the other two files the app creates, I loaded them into my app and it is working great. My apologies for causing anyone to delay upgrading. If anyone else runs into trouble after the upgrade, contact Winston and follow his instructions. Enjoy, Richard (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) On Oct 25, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Cristóbal crismuno...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the dev tweeted yesterday that Daisy 2.0 audiobooks books will be supported in a future update. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rick Alfaro Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 7:41 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 I was finally able to get an audio book into VDR. Here's what I did. The book was in a zip file so I extracted it into my Dropbox folder. The folder structure of the zip was maintained so I wound up with a folder under my DB folder containing the mp3 files. I then tapped on add from the VDR home screen and chose Dropbox from the resulting dialog. I was then presented with the contents of my DB folder so I flicked down to the folder containing the mp3 files and opened it up. The mp3 files were now showing so I simply double tapped on each file which VDR happily downloaded. The 2 files that comprised the audio book now show up on the home screen. At this point, you can start playing the file via normal methods. I decided to go a step further however, and put both of the mp3 files into a play list. This is something you will have to play with and figure out because I found it somewhat confusing but I finally did wind up getting them into a playlist but at this time can't give a step by step of exactly how, just know that its doable. I think the playlist creation needs to be a bit more intuitive but maybe it's just me. I would like to be able to rename the playlist and haven't yet discovered how but it's probably there under the edit button. I do agree it would be great if one could simply import the whole zip file from DB and have VDR deal with it automatically, discarding any files that sometimes are in these zips and creating a play list of the mp3 files with a prompt to name the play list. That would be totally awesome. So far, VDR is keeping its place in the audio book perfectly. the swipe up and down on the play button works great, and you can even change the speed of the playback by swiping up and down while the voice settings is focused. I don't usually speed up any spoken audio but in my short test, it worked great with no degradation of audio at all. Pitch remained constant and I heard no added artifacts in the audio. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 10:20 AM, Brett wrote: Hi, I plan to have a look at this tomorrow, but I am hoping that it relies on the book being zipped as it does with Daisy files. Sent with Siri from Brett's iPhone On 26 Oct 2013, at 12:24 am, Rick Alfaro rick.alf...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't tried any of the new text selection stuff nor the playing of mp3 books because I've not found a source for instructions on these new features. The help file that is part of the app says it is for v2.6. I haven't tried the devs web site yet however. If anyone knows how to get mp3 audio books into VDR I'd like to know. I'm sure it has to do with using Dropbox which is fine but not sure how it handles books with multiple mp3 files. I'm guessing one creates some sort of play list but not sure. I haven't had any trouble so far but as I said, haven't tried the text selection stuff that someone reported here. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 8:50 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote: Have you tried it as of yet? Did you have any problems? -Original Message- From: Rick Alfaro Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:25 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 Raul, Have you figured out yet how mp3 audio books are added? Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/24/2013 12:26 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: Hi, no idea. It can't play any sort of DRM protected books. So, it depends on which kinds of daisy books. You might want to drop a line to the developer and ask. He's very good
Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
I was asking about the size of the mp3 file which worked for you. On 10/25/13, Richard Turner richard.turne...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure what you want to know? The files were fairly large as I had a lot of books from bookshare on hand, but I didn't pay much attention to the size of the database and Winston said nothing about sizes. Richard (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) On Oct 25, 2013, at 2:49 PM, John Diakogeorgiou jdiakoge2...@gmail.com wrote: How big were the files you used? On 10/25/13, Richard Turner richard.turne...@gmail.com wrote: Voice Dream Reader is working fine now. Neither Winston nor I have any idea what happened when I updated to the latest version. I sent him my database and it worked fine on his device. He sent it back with the other two files the app creates, I loaded them into my app and it is working great. My apologies for causing anyone to delay upgrading. If anyone else runs into trouble after the upgrade, contact Winston and follow his instructions. Enjoy, Richard (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) On Oct 25, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Cristóbal crismuno...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the dev tweeted yesterday that Daisy 2.0 audiobooks books will be supported in a future update. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rick Alfaro Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 7:41 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 I was finally able to get an audio book into VDR. Here's what I did. The book was in a zip file so I extracted it into my Dropbox folder. The folder structure of the zip was maintained so I wound up with a folder under my DB folder containing the mp3 files. I then tapped on add from the VDR home screen and chose Dropbox from the resulting dialog. I was then presented with the contents of my DB folder so I flicked down to the folder containing the mp3 files and opened it up. The mp3 files were now showing so I simply double tapped on each file which VDR happily downloaded. The 2 files that comprised the audio book now show up on the home screen. At this point, you can start playing the file via normal methods. I decided to go a step further however, and put both of the mp3 files into a play list. This is something you will have to play with and figure out because I found it somewhat confusing but I finally did wind up getting them into a playlist but at this time can't give a step by step of exactly how, just know that its doable. I think the playlist creation needs to be a bit more intuitive but maybe it's just me. I would like to be able to rename the playlist and haven't yet discovered how but it's probably there under the edit button. I do agree it would be great if one could simply import the whole zip file from DB and have VDR deal with it automatically, discarding any files that sometimes are in these zips and creating a play list of the mp3 files with a prompt to name the play list. That would be totally awesome. So far, VDR is keeping its place in the audio book perfectly. the swipe up and down on the play button works great, and you can even change the speed of the playback by swiping up and down while the voice settings is focused. I don't usually speed up any spoken audio but in my short test, it worked great with no degradation of audio at all. Pitch remained constant and I heard no added artifacts in the audio. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 10:20 AM, Brett wrote: Hi, I plan to have a look at this tomorrow, but I am hoping that it relies on the book being zipped as it does with Daisy files. Sent with Siri from Brett's iPhone On 26 Oct 2013, at 12:24 am, Rick Alfaro rick.alf...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't tried any of the new text selection stuff nor the playing of mp3 books because I've not found a source for instructions on these new features. The help file that is part of the app says it is for v2.6. I haven't tried the devs web site yet however. If anyone knows how to get mp3 audio books into VDR I'd like to know. I'm sure it has to do with using Dropbox which is fine but not sure how it handles books with multiple mp3 files. I'm guessing one creates some sort of play list but not sure. I haven't had any trouble so far but as I said, haven't tried the text selection stuff that someone reported here. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 8:50 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote: Have you tried it as of yet? Did you have any problems? -Original Message- From: Rick Alfaro Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:25 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 Raul, Have you figured out yet how mp3 audio books are added? Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/24/2013 12:26 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: Hi, no idea. It can't play any sort of DRM protected books. So
Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
They were very small, I was just testing the concept. Richard (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) On Oct 25, 2013, at 6:52 PM, John Diakogeorgiou jdiakoge2...@gmail.com wrote: I was asking about the size of the mp3 file which worked for you. On 10/25/13, Richard Turner richard.turne...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure what you want to know? The files were fairly large as I had a lot of books from bookshare on hand, but I didn't pay much attention to the size of the database and Winston said nothing about sizes. Richard (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) On Oct 25, 2013, at 2:49 PM, John Diakogeorgiou jdiakoge2...@gmail.com wrote: How big were the files you used? On 10/25/13, Richard Turner richard.turne...@gmail.com wrote: Voice Dream Reader is working fine now. Neither Winston nor I have any idea what happened when I updated to the latest version. I sent him my database and it worked fine on his device. He sent it back with the other two files the app creates, I loaded them into my app and it is working great. My apologies for causing anyone to delay upgrading. If anyone else runs into trouble after the upgrade, contact Winston and follow his instructions. Enjoy, Richard (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) On Oct 25, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Cristóbal crismuno...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the dev tweeted yesterday that Daisy 2.0 audiobooks books will be supported in a future update. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rick Alfaro Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 7:41 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 I was finally able to get an audio book into VDR. Here's what I did. The book was in a zip file so I extracted it into my Dropbox folder. The folder structure of the zip was maintained so I wound up with a folder under my DB folder containing the mp3 files. I then tapped on add from the VDR home screen and chose Dropbox from the resulting dialog. I was then presented with the contents of my DB folder so I flicked down to the folder containing the mp3 files and opened it up. The mp3 files were now showing so I simply double tapped on each file which VDR happily downloaded. The 2 files that comprised the audio book now show up on the home screen. At this point, you can start playing the file via normal methods. I decided to go a step further however, and put both of the mp3 files into a play list. This is something you will have to play with and figure out because I found it somewhat confusing but I finally did wind up getting them into a playlist but at this time can't give a step by step of exactly how, just know that its doable. I think the playlist creation needs to be a bit more intuitive but maybe it's just me. I would like to be able to rename the playlist and haven't yet discovered how but it's probably there under the edit button. I do agree it would be great if one could simply import the whole zip file from DB and have VDR deal with it automatically, discarding any files that sometimes are in these zips and creating a play list of the mp3 files with a prompt to name the play list. That would be totally awesome. So far, VDR is keeping its place in the audio book perfectly. the swipe up and down on the play button works great, and you can even change the speed of the playback by swiping up and down while the voice settings is focused. I don't usually speed up any spoken audio but in my short test, it worked great with no degradation of audio at all. Pitch remained constant and I heard no added artifacts in the audio. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 10:20 AM, Brett wrote: Hi, I plan to have a look at this tomorrow, but I am hoping that it relies on the book being zipped as it does with Daisy files. Sent with Siri from Brett's iPhone On 26 Oct 2013, at 12:24 am, Rick Alfaro rick.alf...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't tried any of the new text selection stuff nor the playing of mp3 books because I've not found a source for instructions on these new features. The help file that is part of the app says it is for v2.6. I haven't tried the devs web site yet however. If anyone knows how to get mp3 audio books into VDR I'd like to know. I'm sure it has to do with using Dropbox which is fine but not sure how it handles books with multiple mp3 files. I'm guessing one creates some sort of play list but not sure. I haven't had any trouble so far but as I said, haven't tried the text selection stuff that someone reported here. Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/25/2013 8:50 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote: Have you tried it as of yet? Did you have any problems? -Original Message- From: Rick Alfaro Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:25 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader
Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
Do you think this app will ever be able to play audio Daisy books? I would love to be able to access and copy books across from drop box and play them right inside this app. Thanks On 24 Oct 2013, at 15:15, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: I haven't tried it just yet, but this latest update promises to be a very nice one for sure. The below are the changes in the latest version which I just saw in the App Store. At the end of the message is a link to the app for those who may not know what Voice Dream Reader is so you can find out for yourself. ? What's New in Version 2.9.0 Posted Oct 23, 2013 This major release significantly improves usability for VoiceOver users: - Incredibly easy-to-use text selection mechanism. Copy to clipboard, lookup words in the dictionary, highlight, and add your own notes. - Extensive use of new and innovative swipe-enabled buttons for VoiceOver users. Swipe the Voice Settings button to change the speed rate. Rewind and Fast Forward are built into the Play-Pause button as up and down swipes. - The text slider that moves the speech cursor by 5% has been modified so that swiping up moves toward the beginning of the text. The directions have been reversed from previous releases so that it now behaves the same way as the other swipe-enabled controls. For iOS 7, you can double tap the slider to enter a percent value. Plus delicious goodies for everyone: - Experimental support for MP3 audio books. Yes, it remembers where you leave off just like text. And you make add bookmarks. - Pronunciation dictionary import and export. View the entire pronunciation dictionary in an editable text window, allowing editing, copying, and pasting, plus exporting to another app like Dropbox and share it with others via email. - Launching Voice Dream Reader from Mobile Safari. Create a bookmark with the following URL. Next time you select this bookmark, it'll open the current web page in Voice Dream Reader: javascript:window.location=com.voicedream.reader://open?url=+window.location - Change speech rate on the fly with two-finger up or down swipes. (Not for VoiceOver users). - Fixed several problems with using iOS 7 built-in voices. - A lot of the minor improvements and bug fixes. The link is https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader-text-to/id496177674?mt=8 -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
It is a disaster for me. As I tried to state in a previous note this morning. After using the highlight feature, it gets stuck in various screens like voice settings, bookmarks, and now I can't open it after following Winston's advice to delete the app, install it again and restore my backed up database file. I'm now trying to get my previous version installed from my backed up mobile applications folder to roll back to 2.8X -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:15 AM To: ViPhone List Subject: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 I haven't tried it just yet, but this latest update promises to be a very nice one for sure. The below are the changes in the latest version which I just saw in the App Store. At the end of the message is a link to the app for those who may not know what Voice Dream Reader is so you can find out for yourself. ? What's New in Version 2.9.0 Posted Oct 23, 2013 This major release significantly improves usability for VoiceOver users: - Incredibly easy-to-use text selection mechanism. Copy to clipboard, lookup words in the dictionary, highlight, and add your own notes. - Extensive use of new and innovative swipe-enabled buttons for VoiceOver users. Swipe the Voice Settings button to change the speed rate. Rewind and Fast Forward are built into the Play-Pause button as up and down swipes. - The text slider that moves the speech cursor by 5% has been modified so that swiping up moves toward the beginning of the text. The directions have been reversed from previous releases so that it now behaves the same way as the other swipe-enabled controls. For iOS 7, you can double tap the slider to enter a percent value. Plus delicious goodies for everyone: - Experimental support for MP3 audio books. Yes, it remembers where you leave off just like text. And you make add bookmarks. - Pronunciation dictionary import and export. View the entire pronunciation dictionary in an editable text window, allowing editing, copying, and pasting, plus exporting to another app like Dropbox and share it with others via email. - Launching Voice Dream Reader from Mobile Safari. Create a bookmark with the following URL. Next time you select this bookmark, it'll open the current web page in Voice Dream Reader: javascript:window.location=com.voicedream.reader://open?url=+window.locati on - Change speech rate on the fly with two-finger up or down swipes. (Not for VoiceOver users). - Fixed several problems with using iOS 7 built-in voices. - A lot of the minor improvements and bug fixes. The link is https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader-text-to/id496177674?mt=8 -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
I take it, If I use it without using the highlight feature I should be ok? -Original Message- From: Richard Turner Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:30 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 It is a disaster for me. As I tried to state in a previous note this morning. After using the highlight feature, it gets stuck in various screens like voice settings, bookmarks, and now I can't open it after following Winston's advice to delete the app, install it again and restore my backed up database file. I'm now trying to get my previous version installed from my backed up mobile applications folder to roll back to 2.8X -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:15 AM To: ViPhone List Subject: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 I haven't tried it just yet, but this latest update promises to be a very nice one for sure. The below are the changes in the latest version which I just saw in the App Store. At the end of the message is a link to the app for those who may not know what Voice Dream Reader is so you can find out for yourself. ? What's New in Version 2.9.0 Posted Oct 23, 2013 This major release significantly improves usability for VoiceOver users: - Incredibly easy-to-use text selection mechanism. Copy to clipboard, lookup words in the dictionary, highlight, and add your own notes. - Extensive use of new and innovative swipe-enabled buttons for VoiceOver users. Swipe the Voice Settings button to change the speed rate. Rewind and Fast Forward are built into the Play-Pause button as up and down swipes. - The text slider that moves the speech cursor by 5% has been modified so that swiping up moves toward the beginning of the text. The directions have been reversed from previous releases so that it now behaves the same way as the other swipe-enabled controls. For iOS 7, you can double tap the slider to enter a percent value. Plus delicious goodies for everyone: - Experimental support for MP3 audio books. Yes, it remembers where you leave off just like text. And you make add bookmarks. - Pronunciation dictionary import and export. View the entire pronunciation dictionary in an editable text window, allowing editing, copying, and pasting, plus exporting to another app like Dropbox and share it with others via email. - Launching Voice Dream Reader from Mobile Safari. Create a bookmark with the following URL. Next time you select this bookmark, it'll open the current web page in Voice Dream Reader: javascript:window.location=com.voicedream.reader://open?url=+window.locati on - Change speech rate on the fly with two-finger up or down swipes. (Not for VoiceOver users). - Fixed several problems with using iOS 7 built-in voices. - A lot of the minor improvements and bug fixes. The link is https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader-text-to/id496177674?mt=8 -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone
RE: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
Your Guess is as good as mine. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Russ Kiehne Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:46 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 I take it, If I use it without using the highlight feature I should be ok? -Original Message- From: Richard Turner Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:30 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 It is a disaster for me. As I tried to state in a previous note this morning. After using the highlight feature, it gets stuck in various screens like voice settings, bookmarks, and now I can't open it after following Winston's advice to delete the app, install it again and restore my backed up database file. I'm now trying to get my previous version installed from my backed up mobile applications folder to roll back to 2.8X -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:15 AM To: ViPhone List Subject: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 I haven't tried it just yet, but this latest update promises to be a very nice one for sure. The below are the changes in the latest version which I just saw in the App Store. At the end of the message is a link to the app for those who may not know what Voice Dream Reader is so you can find out for yourself. ? What's New in Version 2.9.0 Posted Oct 23, 2013 This major release significantly improves usability for VoiceOver users: - Incredibly easy-to-use text selection mechanism. Copy to clipboard, lookup words in the dictionary, highlight, and add your own notes. - Extensive use of new and innovative swipe-enabled buttons for VoiceOver users. Swipe the Voice Settings button to change the speed rate. Rewind and Fast Forward are built into the Play-Pause button as up and down swipes. - The text slider that moves the speech cursor by 5% has been modified so that swiping up moves toward the beginning of the text. The directions have been reversed from previous releases so that it now behaves the same way as the other swipe-enabled controls. For iOS 7, you can double tap the slider to enter a percent value. Plus delicious goodies for everyone: - Experimental support for MP3 audio books. Yes, it remembers where you leave off just like text. And you make add bookmarks. - Pronunciation dictionary import and export. View the entire pronunciation dictionary in an editable text window, allowing editing, copying, and pasting, plus exporting to another app like Dropbox and share it with others via email. - Launching Voice Dream Reader from Mobile Safari. Create a bookmark with the following URL. Next time you select this bookmark, it'll open the current web page in Voice Dream Reader: javascript:window.location=com.voicedream.reader://open?url=+window.locati on - Change speech rate on the fly with two-finger up or down swipes. (Not for VoiceOver users). - Fixed several problems with using iOS 7 built-in voices. - A lot of the minor improvements and bug fixes. The link is https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader-text-to/id496177674?mt=8 -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups
Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
I think I'll wait before I try it. -Original Message- From: Richard Turner Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:47 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 Your Guess is as good as mine. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Russ Kiehne Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:46 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 I take it, If I use it without using the highlight feature I should be ok? -Original Message- From: Richard Turner Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:30 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 It is a disaster for me. As I tried to state in a previous note this morning. After using the highlight feature, it gets stuck in various screens like voice settings, bookmarks, and now I can't open it after following Winston's advice to delete the app, install it again and restore my backed up database file. I'm now trying to get my previous version installed from my backed up mobile applications folder to roll back to 2.8X -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:15 AM To: ViPhone List Subject: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0 I haven't tried it just yet, but this latest update promises to be a very nice one for sure. The below are the changes in the latest version which I just saw in the App Store. At the end of the message is a link to the app for those who may not know what Voice Dream Reader is so you can find out for yourself. ? What's New in Version 2.9.0 Posted Oct 23, 2013 This major release significantly improves usability for VoiceOver users: - Incredibly easy-to-use text selection mechanism. Copy to clipboard, lookup words in the dictionary, highlight, and add your own notes. - Extensive use of new and innovative swipe-enabled buttons for VoiceOver users. Swipe the Voice Settings button to change the speed rate. Rewind and Fast Forward are built into the Play-Pause button as up and down swipes. - The text slider that moves the speech cursor by 5% has been modified so that swiping up moves toward the beginning of the text. The directions have been reversed from previous releases so that it now behaves the same way as the other swipe-enabled controls. For iOS 7, you can double tap the slider to enter a percent value. Plus delicious goodies for everyone: - Experimental support for MP3 audio books. Yes, it remembers where you leave off just like text. And you make add bookmarks. - Pronunciation dictionary import and export. View the entire pronunciation dictionary in an editable text window, allowing editing, copying, and pasting, plus exporting to another app like Dropbox and share it with others via email. - Launching Voice Dream Reader from Mobile Safari. Create a bookmark with the following URL. Next time you select this bookmark, it'll open the current web page in Voice Dream Reader: javascript:window.location=com.voicedream.reader://open?url=+window.locati on - Change speech rate on the fly with two-finger up or down swipes. (Not for VoiceOver users). - Fixed several problems with using iOS 7 built-in voices. - A lot of the minor improvements and bug fixes. The link is https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader-text-to/id496177674?mt=8 -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed
Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
Hi, no idea. It can't play any sort of DRM protected books. So, it depends on which kinds of daisy books. You might want to drop a line to the developer and ask. He's very good about responding. -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 10/24/2013 9:20 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Do you think this app will ever be able to play audio Daisy books? I would love to be able to access and copy books across from drop box and play them right inside this app. Thanks On 24 Oct 2013, at 15:15, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: I haven't tried it just yet, but this latest update promises to be a very nice one for sure. The below are the changes in the latest version which I just saw in the App Store. At the end of the message is a link to the app for those who may not know what Voice Dream Reader is so you can find out for yourself. ? What's New in Version 2.9.0 Posted Oct 23, 2013 This major release significantly improves usability for VoiceOver users: - Incredibly easy-to-use text selection mechanism. Copy to clipboard, lookup words in the dictionary, highlight, and add your own notes. - Extensive use of new and innovative swipe-enabled buttons for VoiceOver users. Swipe the Voice Settings button to change the speed rate. Rewind and Fast Forward are built into the Play-Pause button as up and down swipes. - The text slider that moves the speech cursor by 5% has been modified so that swiping up moves toward the beginning of the text. The directions have been reversed from previous releases so that it now behaves the same way as the other swipe-enabled controls. For iOS 7, you can double tap the slider to enter a percent value. Plus delicious goodies for everyone: - Experimental support for MP3 audio books. Yes, it remembers where you leave off just like text. And you make add bookmarks. - Pronunciation dictionary import and export. View the entire pronunciation dictionary in an editable text window, allowing editing, copying, and pasting, plus exporting to another app like Dropbox and share it with others via email. - Launching Voice Dream Reader from Mobile Safari. Create a bookmark with the following URL. Next time you select this bookmark, it'll open the current web page in Voice Dream Reader: javascript:window.location=com.voicedream.reader://open?url=+window.location - Change speech rate on the fly with two-finger up or down swipes. (Not for VoiceOver users). - Fixed several problems with using iOS 7 built-in voices. - A lot of the minor improvements and bug fixes. The link is https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader-text-to/id496177674?mt=8 -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
Raul, Have you figured out yet how mp3 audio books are added? Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/24/2013 12:26 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: Hi, no idea. It can't play any sort of DRM protected books. So, it depends on which kinds of daisy books. You might want to drop a line to the developer and ask. He's very good about responding. -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 10/24/2013 9:20 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Do you think this app will ever be able to play audio Daisy books? I would love to be able to access and copy books across from drop box and play them right inside this app. Thanks On 24 Oct 2013, at 15:15, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: I haven't tried it just yet, but this latest update promises to be a very nice one for sure. The below are the changes in the latest version which I just saw in the App Store. At the end of the message is a link to the app for those who may not know what Voice Dream Reader is so you can find out for yourself. ? What's New in Version 2.9.0 Posted Oct 23, 2013 This major release significantly improves usability for VoiceOver users: - Incredibly easy-to-use text selection mechanism. Copy to clipboard, lookup words in the dictionary, highlight, and add your own notes. - Extensive use of new and innovative swipe-enabled buttons for VoiceOver users. Swipe the Voice Settings button to change the speed rate. Rewind and Fast Forward are built into the Play-Pause button as up and down swipes. - The text slider that moves the speech cursor by 5% has been modified so that swiping up moves toward the beginning of the text. The directions have been reversed from previous releases so that it now behaves the same way as the other swipe-enabled controls. For iOS 7, you can double tap the slider to enter a percent value. Plus delicious goodies for everyone: - Experimental support for MP3 audio books. Yes, it remembers where you leave off just like text. And you make add bookmarks. - Pronunciation dictionary import and export. View the entire pronunciation dictionary in an editable text window, allowing editing, copying, and pasting, plus exporting to another app like Dropbox and share it with others via email. - Launching Voice Dream Reader from Mobile Safari. Create a bookmark with the following URL. Next time you select this bookmark, it'll open the current web page in Voice Dream Reader: javascript:window.location=com.voicedream.reader://open?url=+window.location - Change speech rate on the fly with two-finger up or down swipes. (Not for VoiceOver users). - Fixed several problems with using iOS 7 built-in voices. - A lot of the minor improvements and bug fixes. The link is https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader-text-to/id496177674?mt=8 -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: new update to Voice Dream Reader 2.9.0
Hi, unfortunately not. I've been busy with other things and haven't had time to play like I was hoping. -- Raul A. Gallegos I'm in a serious relationship with my WiFi, You could say we have a connection Bazinga! - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 10/24/2013 3:25 PM, Rick Alfaro wrote: Raul, Have you figured out yet how mp3 audio books are added? Best Regards, Rick alfaro On 10/24/2013 12:26 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: Hi, no idea. It can't play any sort of DRM protected books. So, it depends on which kinds of daisy books. You might want to drop a line to the developer and ask. He's very good about responding. -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 10/24/2013 9:20 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Do you think this app will ever be able to play audio Daisy books? I would love to be able to access and copy books across from drop box and play them right inside this app. Thanks On 24 Oct 2013, at 15:15, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: I haven't tried it just yet, but this latest update promises to be a very nice one for sure. The below are the changes in the latest version which I just saw in the App Store. At the end of the message is a link to the app for those who may not know what Voice Dream Reader is so you can find out for yourself. ? What's New in Version 2.9.0 Posted Oct 23, 2013 This major release significantly improves usability for VoiceOver users: - Incredibly easy-to-use text selection mechanism. Copy to clipboard, lookup words in the dictionary, highlight, and add your own notes. - Extensive use of new and innovative swipe-enabled buttons for VoiceOver users. Swipe the Voice Settings button to change the speed rate. Rewind and Fast Forward are built into the Play-Pause button as up and down swipes. - The text slider that moves the speech cursor by 5% has been modified so that swiping up moves toward the beginning of the text. The directions have been reversed from previous releases so that it now behaves the same way as the other swipe-enabled controls. For iOS 7, you can double tap the slider to enter a percent value. Plus delicious goodies for everyone: - Experimental support for MP3 audio books. Yes, it remembers where you leave off just like text. And you make add bookmarks. - Pronunciation dictionary import and export. View the entire pronunciation dictionary in an editable text window, allowing editing, copying, and pasting, plus exporting to another app like Dropbox and share it with others via email. - Launching Voice Dream Reader from Mobile Safari. Create a bookmark with the following URL. Next time you select this bookmark, it'll open the current web page in Voice Dream Reader: javascript:window.location=com.voicedream.reader://open?url=+window.location - Change speech rate on the fly with two-finger up or down swipes. (Not for VoiceOver users). - Fixed several problems with using iOS 7 built-in voices. - A lot of the minor improvements and bug fixes. The link is https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-dream-reader-text-to/id496177674?mt=8 -- Raul A. Gallegos Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
