[nabs-l] Questions About Accessing Books

[Jewel]

For the Voice Dream app, you can sample all of the available voices, English and otherwise, by going into settings and selecting add voices. Each voice will have a sample button before the purchase button. There are, thus far, terhty-one English voices ranging from American to Indian, plus many foreign voices. This app is a great option for someone with a mild hearing loss who has trouble understanding the voices on Read2Go. I know of someone just like this, who was missing out on redding Bookshare books on her phone until she got this app. If you are so inclined, there is even a Queen Elizabeth voice! 

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On Apr 2, 2013, at 9:53 PM, "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> Oh, there's an iphone ap for reading with voices?
> Is this an ibook ap or something?
> I assumed you had to have voiceover read it to you like Kerri said.
> 
> So there's other voices. Are there links to samples of them? I wonder who they are and what they sound like.
> Sophie, do you use these as opposed to voice over?
> And what books are we talking about? Ibooks or the nook ap?
> Is it human sounding with inflections? I prefer audio books or braille like Kerri does since the monotone speech of most synthesizers is just too hard to process for a long period of time.
> 
> Ashley
> -----Original Message----- From: Sophie Trist
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 7:30 AM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Questions About Accessing Books
> 
> Kerri, Justin is right. I don't know about Blio on the PC, but I
> have the app on my iiPhone. If you download the app for
> iPhone/iPad, you don't have to have VO read the book to you. The
> app comes with a set of voices you can choose from. Each one is
> $9.99, so it's a bit of a cost at the outset, but the voices are
> really good.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "justin williams" <justin.williams2 at gmail.com
> To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 01:38:39 -0400
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Questions About Accessing Books
> 
> I saw the blio at the convention two years ago.  it is
> accessible.  They did
> a bunch of workshops on it.  From what I saw then, and mind you
> this was two
> years ago, you could download it for free, but you had to pay for
> amazon
> books and anything else you bought.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Kerri Kosten
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 1:33 AM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: [nabs-l] Questions About Accessing Books
> 
> Hi All:
> 
> So, I love to read.
> What is the current access we have to mainstream Ebooks?
> Is the Nook for PC accessible yet or is it only the Iphone/Ipad
> app?
> I love reading but I can't stand reading on the Iphone/Ipad. I
> don't mind
> voiceover for short things but I hate reading with it.
> I prefer to either read in braille, on the computer using Jaws,
> or listen to
> an audiobook.
> Does anyone use the Blio EReader? Is it accessible? If I were to
> purchase a
> book on it can you read it using Jaws?
> There is a book I want to read that I can't find on either
> Bookshare or BARD
> and I looked on the Blio reader store and it is available for
> only $2.99.
> What sources do you use to get books for pleasure reading?
> At this time, are there any other sources to read Ebooks on the
> PC using
> Jaws besides Blio and Bookshare?
> I know books can be read in braille on the Iphone/Ipad using a
> braille
> display but I currently don't have one.
> Thanks,
> Kerri
> 
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