Hi Christine, It goes against my instincts to repost someone else's reply, but my experience is that if I just post a link to their Mail Archive post, many people will ignore it or assume it leads to a page that is not accessible, and refuse to read it. So I will post the excellent response that Maria gave to this question on Monday. And I will also preface this by saying that apart from the option of being able to use high quality voices to read this material (through additional in-app purchases of $1.99 for most voices, or $2.99 for the two NeoVoice voices), you also have the option to get such voices in up to 20 languages. Furthermore, the search and navigation functions, and the option to remember your place in documents is not generally available for all applications with Voiceover, nor will you necessarily be able to easily read your own documents with Dropbox integration with those apps. <begin quote> "Maria Kristic" wrote:
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 <end quote> Further, as Maria (who answered your question) also posted, if you focus on the title of a Bookshare book, the synopsis will be read. A great way to search out previous list discussion content is to use the link to the Mail Archive page for this list that appears at the bottom of each post, then type your search terms into the text box, and hit enter. You can read up and down the threads for the next and previous posts. If you do this from your computer, you can use the shortcut keys appropriate for your browser and operating system (e.g., on a Mac I press Control-n to read the next post in a thread, and Control-p to read the previous post. On Windows with Internet Explorer you would use Alt-n for next and Alt-p for previous. I actually found Maria's post that I pasted in above by doing a Mail Archive search, and finding the result: * RE: Thoughts on purchasing VoiceDream Reader. http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone%40googlegroups.com/msg35127.html Hope this helps. Cheers, Esther On Mar 15, 10:10 am, Maria & Joe Chapman <bubbygirl1...@gmail.com> wrote: > HI. firstly it will read a lot of different types of documents e.g. html, > daisy text text rtf etc. Secondly you can choose from heaps of different > voices or now use vo. I like it for reading unprotected epub books. > > hth > Maria Chapman > bubbygirl1...@gmail.com > > "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - > Mahatma Gandhi > > On 16/03/2013, at 5:22 AM, Christina C. <blindmaclo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > I have read the app description and I don't understand how this app is > > different than using VO. I believe I am missing something as people seem to > > be purchasing the app. :) So, I would appreciate someone sharing with me > > how this app enhances their experience on ios. :) > > > Thanks, > > Christina > -- 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
