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: [email protected]
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 <[email protected]> wrote:
I believe the dev tweeted yesterday that Daisy 2.0 audiobooks books will
be
supported in a future update.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Rick Alfaro
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 7:41 AM
To: [email protected]
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 <[email protected]> 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: [email protected]
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 <[email protected]>
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.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
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Raul A. Gallegos
Oh I'm not arguing, I'm simply explaining why I'm right. - Sheldon
Cooper
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