Voice Dream Reader can read other formats besides DAISY (i.e., PDF, Word, RTF, ePub, HTML, TXT). You can search for text within files in all file types supported by the app, see all the results, and be taken to them. It's nice to be able to see what percentage of the book you are at, along with elapsed and remaining time. You can go to a specific percentage as well. The app shows you short pages of text at a time, similar to iBooks, when reading with a Braille display, which is a nice alternative to other apps that show you the whole file at once, thus making Braille display navigation extremely sluggish. It also keeps your place in all supported file types similar to how iBooks does. Of course, as with Read2Go, if you read continuously with the Acapela/NeoSpeech TTS, you don't have to turn pages. You can purchase additional Acapela or NeoSpeech voices to supplement the Heather voice which comes with it.
Yes, you can buy NeoSpeech voices, but your only choices are Julie or Paul; Kate is not available. No, Dropbox and Bookshare integration no longer cost extra--they are included in the app's base price. Yes, you can look at all folders of your Dropbox. A quirk with the app is that, when you perform a full-text search and navigate to a result, while the Acapela or NeoSpeech TTS voice is at the right place, the text box accessible via VO and Braille does not automatically refresh; you have to scroll up a page to be placed on the correct page where the search result is. While you cannot navigate by sections in a DAISY book as you can with Read2Go, you can use text search to find what you're looking for in most cases I should think. I do wish I could see synopses of Bookshare books before downloading them as I can with Read2Go. Hope this helps you with your decision! I mostly read in the app using my Braille display and really like it! Regards, Maria -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arianna Sepulveda Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 7:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Thoughts on purchasing VoiceDream Reader. Hello, all, I have been thinking about possibly buying VoiceDream Reader. However, I'm not sure if it's all that necessary for me. I already have Read2Go, and appart from the app crashing simi-regularly, things are great. I'll be writing to Bookshare about that, but that's another topic entirely. So, what are some of the reasons that I may wish to buy VoiceDream reader if I already have Read2Go? Is it true that you can buy some of the Neospeech voices? I'm particularly interested in using Kate, as it's the voice on my BookSense. My fiance often uses my BookSense for reading to fall asleep, as do I, and I miss being able to read with the Kate voice. Lol maybe I should just buy it. If I remember correctly, both the functionality of reading books from Bookshare and the ability to use Dropbox cost $.99. Can you look at your entire Dropbox folder with VoiceDream Reader? Thanks, Ari -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
