![]() ![]() Turn on voices to be selected from in Language Rotor. Second with Voiceover activated, select the languages from the rotor you previously set up. That will activate reading of that page of text. With Speak Screen ON, whenever you are on a page with text (including Kindle or other e-book), you swipe down from the top of the screen with two fingers. First, you set up the languages you want to make available from within VoiceOver. The key step is to go to Settings, then Accessibility, then Spoken Content. Heres how to do it using the Language Rotor. The secret is to think about how you would give access to this facility to a blind or visually impaired person. While t is not at all obvious how to do it is still possible to change the voice used in text-to-speech with the Kindle. The big advantage is in being able to read your Kindle formatted books using text-to-speech. However, Word documents, PDF documents will not offer text-to-speech (many other apps do offer this functionality). Three finger swipe right to left to move to next page, or left to right to go to previous page.Īll of these options are clearly spoken out.Simply do a two finger swipe down to resume continuous reading. for meaning), and you want to return to continuous reading. Suppose you are in single line reading at a time (e.g.(Like Speak Selection only it gives context too.) Single finger tap anywhere to read that line. Single finger tap selects a line of text and reads under the finger.Use a single two finger tap while reading to pause.Use a two finger swipe down to start continuous reading from top of page.Double tap to open the book and start reading from where you left off. In Kindle Library with VoiceOver on, tap once on a book to have full spoken information about each title, author and whether the book is installed.Thereafter, use of text-to-speech is pretty straightforward and quite powerful. Mostly this involves a double tap instead of single tap (which makes sense, after all a blind or visually impaired person will want to check the right app is selected (single tap), before activating that app (double tap). VoiceOver is designed to allow blind and visually impaired people to access iOS So when it is running you activate apps in a slightly different way than the standard iOS approach. Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > On. Kindle Reader uses VoiceOver so if you want to use Kindles text-to-speech functions VoiceOver needs to be installed and running. Now it is possible to use VoiceOver (not Speak Selection though). It wasnt even possible to use the Speak Selection feature to select a word or chunk of text to have it read out. Blind and visually impaired people who already had purchased Kindle books found that if they downloaded their Kindle books to an iPad it wasnt possible to use the built-in features offered by VoiceOver. Before this update its always been a bit frustrating for readers of Kindle books to find that there was no way to listen to their collection on an iPad. Now Kindle books can be read using text-to-speech on an iPad, iPhone or iPod. May Day brought a nice surprise for Kindle readers who use the app on their iOS. ![]()
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