Hi Sandy, If you want to read text with other voices, get Voice Dream Reader. It is fantastic, and has direct access to Gutenberg books. Or you can also use Voice Dream Reader with Dropbox. HTH,
Richard (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) On May 24, 2013, at 2:53 AM, Sandratomkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi OCR practicianers! > > Having bought an Italian voice from prizmo, I thought to see if I could > use the app to read a book with that voice. I had 2 copies from Gutenberg, > both "Alice in wonderland". The first copy in English and the second in > Italiano. Well, I made a mistake and chose the one in english. I opened it, > and selected then copied all. I then went to the voice tab in Prizmo and > pasted the book there. So, it seems that the space allotted there is quite > roomy. But then the Italian voice started reading, english text, but sort of > italianised. I couldn't shut him up! Probably, because the text was such a > large chunk, and the screen-reader voice a large programme, I don't really > know, but I couldn't do anything. VO couldn't deal with the conflict! I > thought to let him read through the text until he got tired, but he went on > and on! I put the phone under a cushion and went away, but when i returned, > the babble was still flowing. I turned the phone off and came back to it > later. I managed to get to the app switcher and close Prizmo. > > That was a few days ago. Just now, i opened the reader tab again and > managed, after waiting an age for the screen to respond, to turn the rotor > (each turn took about 2 minutes to register) untill I got to "Edit" then > "Select all" and, finally, "Cut" which did the trick! The edit field was now > empty. > > Just thought to warn people that while is seems possible to use prizmo as > some sort of book reader, using the voice of your choice, it might not be a > great idea to put so much text in there. > > having said all this, in reading the blurb, I see that Prizmo says it can > be used from other apps, including, using the voices, but, as yet, I have not > found a way to do this, has anyone else? > > Meanwhile, I have been playing with the White option in Readability, but > must admit that I get much better results from Text Grabber when it comes to > white on black, or other colour combinations. I suppose, it could be said > that if you only want enough info to let you know what you are looking at, > Prizmo might work for you, although, mostly, I get "No text could be > extracted", whereas, after some abortive attempts with TG, I can often get a > messy rendition. > > Talking Goggles seems much less fazed by colours of white on black, but I > just don't get enough info to make it worth it! Perhaps, I am expecting too > much. > > Just some observations, > Sandy. > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > 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.
