[gui-talk] need instructions on using the new Blio App foriPhone

Sat Jul 16 22:31:10 UTC 2011

Listers:

If a book allows text to speech in Blio, continuous reading is an option.  At present, it appears that voices must be purchased for this to work on the iPhone.  Between the PC version and iPhone Blio app, I found two sample books that have text to speech enabled.

hth

PJ

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 16, 2011, at 12:47 PM, "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:

> Do a two-finger-flick-down to read from the cursor to end-of-page. To easily
> go to the next page and start VoiceOver reading it, then do a
> three-finger-flick-left which scrolls to the next page. VoiceOver will read
> the whole thing if you do this.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Beth Wright
> Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 10:43 AM
> To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] need instructions on using the new Blio App
> foriPhone
> 
> Thanks, Mike.  Just one more question.  When I double-tap the screen,
> VoiceOver will start reading, then stop after a few lines.  How do I get it
> to read the entire page before proceeding to the next?  Thanks.
> 
> Beth Wright
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> From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
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> foriPhone
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> 
>> Appel's iBooks can read continuously with VoiceOver; one just does a 
>> two-finger-flick-down which reads from cursor to bottom of screen and 
>> iBooks automatically scrolls to the next page and keeps on reading. 
>> The Blio app doesn't apparently do this yet.
>> 
>> I'll keep tinkering.
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>> On Behalf Of Marc Workman
>> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 8:55 PM
>> To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] need instructions on using the new Blio App 
>> foriPhone
>> 
>> Surely there ought to be a way to read continuously.  You would think so.
>> Every comment I've read on the iPhone list says that continuous 
>> reading is not possible.
>> 
>> If you do discover a way of doing this, please pass it along, and I'll 
>> let the others know.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Marc
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
>> To: "'Beth Wright'" <beth.wright at mindspring.com>; "'Discussion of the 
>> Graphical User Interface,GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 7:27 PM
>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] need instructions on using the new Blio App 
>> foriPhone
>> 
>> 
>>> Beth:
>>> 
>>> Surely there ought to be a way to read continuously with VoiceOver 
>>> but I haven't found it. Next best thing would be to double-tap 
>>> anywhere on the screen to go back, then find the "page chooser" 
>>> toward the top of the screen and flick up togo to thenext page; then 
>>> double-tap to get VoiceOver to read the page.
>>> 
>>> I'm still experimenting.
>>> 
>>> Mike
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
>>> [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>> On Behalf Of Beth Wright
>>> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 5:32 PM
>>> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
>>> Subject: [gui-talk] need instructions on using the new Blio App for 
>>> iPhone
>>> 
>>> Hi, folks.
>>> 
>>> I downloaded the new Blio App for the iPhone, bought some books, and 
>>> tried to read them.  I can get into the book, get VoiceOver reading 
>>> the text, but can't figure out how to get past the first page!  Could 
>>> somebody give me a few pointers, or tell me where I might some 
>>> instructions on how to proceed?
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>> 
>>> Beth Wright
>>> 
>>> 
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