I’m puzzled why anyone would buy and app without knowing what it can do, or read the help file which explains what you can do, but to make it easy for you, I’ve copied the help file contents below.
Help for VoiceOver Users Writing Cursor movement and text selection are difficult with default VoiceOver behavior. Voice Dream Writer has 3 swipeable buttons that work together to make this easy. First is the cursor button. If you double tap on it, it'll tell you where exactly the cursor is. Swiping up or down with 1 finger moves the cursor up or down in the document by the cursor movement unit, which can be character, word, sentence, paragraph, or heading if they exist. Swiping up or down with 3 fingers moves the cursor to the beginning or the end of the document. The second swipeable control, Cursor Movement Unit, let you set the unit that the cursor button uses. Swipe up or down to change it. Functionally, it is similar to the unit in the Rotor. But it is entirely separate: setting this unit does not affect the Rotor and vise versa. The third and last button is the Text Selection tool. Swipe up or down to move the end of selected text by the current unit, starting from the cursor, so you can expand or shrink the selection. Swipe down with 3 fingers to expand the selection all the way to the end of the document. Double tap would bring up edit actions like copy, cut and paste. In addition to VoiceOver typing feedback, Voice Dream Writer can read the entire sentence you just entered. You have the option to turn this off from the Audio Settings menu. Sentence read-back uses the current Proofreading style. See Proofreading section later for details. If you're using a bluetooth keyboard, there are many shortcuts available. These shortcuts are listed at the end of this document. For the best experience, add "Auto-ducking" in your rotor, and turn it off for this app. Formatting Voice Dream Writer supports a subset of Markdown, a quick way to format the text in your document on a mobile device without any of the complications of a full-blown Word Processor. Supported Markdown syntax includes: * Headings. Use pound symbol, or number sign, at the beginning of a paragraph for Headings. Number of # symbols represent the heading level. These acts as markers that allow you to navigate the document easily using the Outline. You can also jump to these markers using the cursor tool, which gives you a way to mark a location in the document so you can go back to it quickly later. When you export as a Word, HTML, or Rich Text Format (RTF) files, these become styled as headings. * Lists. Use a minus sign at the beginning of a paragraph for a bulleted list, and a number followed by a period and a space for a numbered list. If you'll ultimately export the document to Word, HTML or RTF format, don't worry about keeping the numbers in sequence because they will be generated automatically in the right order later. * Italics. Surround a word or phrase with 1 asterisk to italicize it. * Bold. Surround a word or phrase with 2 asterisks to bold it. Outline To navigate through your writing quickly, you can use the Outline, which can be opened using the "Show Outline" button. You can also show the outline by swiping right with 3 fingers, and hide the outline by swiping left with 3 fingers. If you prefer the swiping gesture, you can hide the show-hide outline buttons in Settings-Advanced Settings to reduce clutter. The outline is created and maintained automatically from your writing, which is broken down to sections, paragraphs and sentences. If you tap on a row in the outline, you'll hear the entire text of the paragraph or sentence. The set of buttons at the top of the Outline let you decide how much detail you want to see by setting the lowest level. When "Paragraph" is selected, for example, you'll only see paragraphs and headings, not sentences. A common use of the Outline is to find a place in the text and then edit from there. When you find what your're looking for, double tapping that row in the outline would select that chunk of text in the text area. Then, you can either go to the Text Area by the 3-finger swipe gesture, or invoke the "Edit Text" action. The entire piece of text would be selected. You can then swipe up or down with the Cursor tool to go to the beginning or the end of that chunk of text. You can move any item in the Outline to a different location in the document. Go into Edit mode by double tapping on the Edit button. Next, find the Reorder button for the row you want to move and double-tap and hold to drag-and-drop it where you want it to go. When you move a heading, it would move the entire section of text under the heading. Word Finder Word Finder is your writing companion that helps you find the right word. It has three modes: dictionary definition, phonetic search, and meaning search. Phonetic search returns similarly sounding words even if the word entered is misspelled. For example, enter "c-o-k-e-s" and you'll find "coax". Meaning search lets you find semantically related words from a word or phrase. For example, if you enter "baseball", it'll show all words related to baseball, like "bat" or "pitch". Or, you can enter a phrase that describes the word you're looking for, like "precious stone", and it'll list "diamond", "sapphire", "ruby" etc. Each word has three actions. "Define" takes you to the dictionary definition of that word, "Insert" inserts the word at the cursor, and "Search" starts a new search using that word. You can go back to the results of the previous search using the "Previous Search" button. Proofreading There is a special button always available on the bottom bar: Proofread from cursor, which is like a Play button for audio. When you activate it, it'll start proofreading from the beginning of the sentence that the cursor is on. And when you double tap again, it'll stop reading and place the cursor at the end of the last word read. During proofreading, the Read button becomes swipeable. Swiping up or down moves the reading cursor by sentences, and swiping with 3 fingers moves it by paragraphs. There are two proofreading styles: natural and detailed. Natural reading style mimics a person reading so that you can verify how your writing flows. On the other hand, detailed reading style give you as much feedback as possible so that mechanical mistakes in your writing are easily detected. Both styles can be further configured based on your preference. Audio Settings is where you configure all the voice features of the app. You can use all the voices installed in Voice Dream Reader. However, you must update Voice Dream Reader to at least version 3.4.0 and run it once. The two apps also share a Pronunciation Dictionary. If you choose to use an iOS voice, you can download enhanced versions of the voice. Go to iOS Settings, General, Accessibility, Speech, Voices, select your language, and then tap on "Enhanced Quality" to download enhancements. At the moment, you need to use Voice Dream Reader to buy and download voices other than the built-in iOS voices. Managing Files When you run the app for the first time, you'll have the option to enable iCloud. This is an all or nothing decision: either all your documents are stored in iCloud or none. If you decide to use iCloud, your documents will be synchronized across all your devices that have iCloud enabled. If not, all your files will be locally stored on a single device only. A word of warning: iCloud has improved a lot since it was launched but it still has hiccups. This is especially true if your Internet connection is slow or unreliable. I suggest that if you have multiple Apple devices, you should enable iCloud, because its benefits outweigh its problems. Particularly if you run Yosemite on a Mac, which can see all the files in Voice Dream Writer. But be patient when issues arise. If you run into problems, restart the app. In the worst case, turn off iCloud Drive from iOS Settings entirely and turn it back on. When you create a document, it will be saved locally in the Voice Dream Writer folder. And if you enabled iCloud, it'll synched to iCloud in addition to saving locally so that if you don't have internet connection, you can still work on it. Don't worry about saving. Your edits are saved automatically. You can import a plain text file from an external location. That file will be copied to the Voice Dream Writer folder. After you select an external location, such as Dropbox or Google Drive, the Dropbox app or Google Drive app on your device takes over and lets you select a file. If that file doesn't exist locally, Dropbox or Google Drive will be responsible for downloading that file from the cloud. Because you copied it, when you edit that file, changes are made to the file in Voice Dream Writer only and will not be saved to the original location. There're several ways to export the text. You can copy the entire text to the clipboard so that you can paste it in another app. Or Send, for emailing or sending the text as an SMS message, or tweet, etc. Open File In Another App makes a copy of the file and gives it to another app, like Mail or Pages. That app would take the copy and keep it from that point on. You can decide what format to use. Plain text without Markdown would eliminate the special Markdown characters like "#" or "*" used for formatting. Word, HTML, and RTF export keep the Markdown formatting. You can Export the file to an external storage location, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, or another iCloud folder. This is similar to import in that a copy is made and saved in the external location. When you edit the file in Voice Dream Writer in the future, the changes will not be saved to that external file. To rename a file, use the Rename action on a row in the File Manager. On an iPad or landscape mode on an iPhone, you can also rename the currently open file by double tapping the name of the document in the top toolbar. Find Text and Misspelled Words When you Find Text, or Find Misspelled Words, the Search Results button is swipeable: you can swipe up and down to go through the results one by one. And you can swipe up and down with three fingers to go to the first or last result. When going through misspelled words, you can use the Text Field next to the Search Results button to correct the word on the fly. After entering the correctly spelled word, tap on Return to replace the misspelled word. You can also swipe open Word Finder which will automatically perform a phonetic search using the misspelled word. When you find the right word, use the Insert action to replace the misspelled word. Bluetooth Keyboard Shortcuts * Up and down arrows: Previous or next search result or misspelled word * Option left and right arrows: Previous or next word * Option Up and down arrows: Previous or next paragraph * Command Left and right arrows: Start or end of the line (Also with Control) * Command Up and down arrows: Start or end of the document (Also with Control) * Shift up, down, left and right arrows: Select text from cursor * Command-Z: Undo * Shift-Command-Z: Redo * Command-X: Cut * Command-C: Copy * Command-V: Paste * Command-A: Select All * Command-F: Find * Play-Pause: Read from Cursor and Pause Reading. * Command-T: Show or hide all toolbars * Command-1: Show or hide Outline * Command-0: Show or hide Word Finder There're minor iOS issues with Bluetooth keyboards. The backspacing key sometimes announces actions that's 1 character off. Apple Pages has the same issue. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lori Dent Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 9:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: voice dream writer Hi All, Last night I bought the voice dream writer. I was wondering those of you who have this app how do you like it? Also, what kinds of things can you do in voice dream writer? Take care. Lori and the Gipper -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. 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