Category: accessible Devices
Hi everyone. I know, I am probably one of the last blind people who bought this App for iOS. So I did two days ago and I completely fell in love. I really love this app. I have no words for expressing how life became easy for me both about reading my books but also pdf documents, etc etc. I explored the app and I am able to do allmost everything except 2 little issues which I would like to ask about: the first is that somewhere it says that when you tap in a word and hold your finger, you can bring up a menu with additional options about this word. I really wasn't able to do it. I selected the word with the rotor and then mooved to the word I want and I was not able to do anything: I tried double tap and also double tap and hold. But nothing worked. The second issue I have is that I would like to select a part of a document, copy it and then send it either through Email, or notes app or whatever. Does someone know how to do it. But overall, I love the App. I love reading and this App is perfect for me. I used previously iBooks and Kindle, both very nice and accessible apps but nothing is compared to Voice Dream in my opinion. Cheers
You inspired me to download the app. I sincerely hope to get use out of this app. Guess a good place to start will be to get off the middle aged fat white ass and renew my Bookshare subscription as soon as I'm done paying for some current crises. Great suggest and hopefully some student minds well versed in the app can give you / us a hand with this.
Okay, so hope this helps.
When you open a document, swipe through the elements until you get to the button just
before the play button. It should say Select text, starting with... and it will give a word.
you can flick up or down to set the start location, or follow the instructions to 3 finger
swipe to select by sentence. Once you are at the correct start position, hit that button
again, and it will change to choose the end point. Once there, hit the button a third time,
and a menu comes up allowing you to copy, define, highlight or pronounce your selection,
and there is an option too to add a note, although I'm not quite sure how that works.
Hope this helps get you started. I have been able to copy sections of a document to the
clipboard in this way.
What is this application actually called? I looked for it and see a couple different ones with similar names. I think one is paid and one is "light" but not sure if there are other sifferences.
Do a search for Voice Dream in the app store, you will see a Lite version and a regular
paid version. The paid version is what I have and what I assume can allow a person to
select unlimited amounts of text to read, copy or otherwise manipulate. The Lite version
says that it reads 300 characters at a time before stopping and requiring another button
press for the Play button. I suppose you could get a feel for the ap with the Lite version
before shelling out your hard earned money, although for me it was money well spent. I
really enjoy the A Cappella voices when listening to long documents, Bookshare books,
etc.
Looks like I'm with Leo again. Time to get off my fat white ass and renew my bookshare membership. lol
Now, they say DRM free books. Does that mean I can't use them to open Ibooks or Kindle material? Because for me, that would rather defeat the purpose.:)
That would be correct, they don't open those types of files. PDFs work well, as do
unprotected epubs, any of the Gutenberg books, and of course I love it with Bookshare,
but you won't be able to read iBooks or Kindle books in the app.
It is one of the pay apps that i've no regret buying, and supporting. The developer is great. i use all the features. Instead of having like, 3 different devices, now i only have one app, the Voicedream app. I also like the fact that you can add on voices for different languages, and different voices...
Only one question though, how do you import daisy foulder to the app via dropbox?
I believe you need the folder zipped into a .zip file, then within Dropbox or perhaps in an
email to yourself, choose Open with Voice Dream and the app will unzip the file. I have
not tried this recently, but I did this a while back and I believe that is the process.
I haven't used it with Braille yet, just speech. But, it made me renew my Bookshare subscription, and I do love it. What a fantastic app!
I imagine it would be good for PDFs at least. A bit disappointed it doesn't read books for the Kindle though. The Kindle app is actually pretty decent, but when wanting to look up a word or use some of the other functions it is a little unintuitive.
The advantage to using the VoiceDream app is similar to Bard. I can minimize it and lock the screen while the book is playing and then be running around doing things.
I suppose once they are able to add support for Kindle, if Amazon would do it, that would widen their scope.
It doesn't support any DRM format, and Kindel is one of the DRM format, not to say that it is also specificly format for Kindel app. You can highlight words lines etc etc on Kindel too. Just double tap while you are reading, and there are different options there.
Maybe the Kindle app has gotten better since I last used it. It wasn't bad, but selecting specific words was rather difficult. There's also the native voiceover issue of being unable to hear quotes as a punctuation. Not normaly a big deal, but when you're reading something dialog intensive it can get a little confusing when reading in say-all mode.) You can full punctuate it, but that's just too much punctuation.
Well, when was the last time you use Kindel app? And, as far as Voiceover responses is
concern, you can always try reading it with different voices.
The VoiceDream app works wonderfully with Braille displays. While on vacation, I used it
to review a friend's manuscript, a task I can only trust myself to do well using Braille. It
worked very nicely, including automatic page scrolling like iBooks doesn't.
If you have iBooks on authomatic page turning, the braille display should react the same to it anyway...
So I actually bought this ap and renewed my bookshare membership. I'm super excited to hear that it works well with a braille display. I have downloaded a crapton of reference and how to books so now I just need to get familiar with the ap. Do yall keep VO on or turn it off when you use Voice Dream?
I keep VO on.
And, thanks Joanne. Fixed that now with iBooks.
Actually it wasn't all that long ago that I used the kindle app. I'd use it more were it not for the issues I mentioned. And, what's this about using multiple voices with voiceover to read? Is there some way to designate certain voices for certain elements of a document? Because I've heard of no such thing.
I fixed all my problems with this App. And yeah, it works great with braille. I simply love it. I think it's the best money I spent on the App Store. I think sometimes what is the best money I spent: if it is Downcast or this one but I think Voice Dream wins.
mean. VoiceDream's beautiful but the KNFBReader is a right beauty of an app and lets you read things you heretofore could not.
Voice Dreams Reader and KNFB Reader serve different purposes. One is a reading app, another is a scanning app. Comparing them both is like comparing Apple and orange, and deciding which is better for your health...