[real-eyes] Re: Fw: [aiphone] Bookshare Read2Go app: my first impressions
- From: "Reginald George" <sgeorge@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:17:29 -0500
I have yet to hear of anyone getting this to work on the Touch yet. In fact
reports so far aren't good. Even when they turn off sound they are getting
out of memory errors. Someone should have caught this. They will probably
fix it though. I am wondering about brf files and what all formats this
will work for.
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From: "Robert Beach" <rbeach@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 9:20 AM
Subject: [real-eyes] Re: Fw: [aiphone] Bookshare Read2Go app: my first
impressions
My understanding from reading the description is that you can use VO instead
of the included voices. However, I could have misunderstood what I read. I
haven't tried to do this yet.
Robert Lee Beach
Assistive Technology Specialist
Kansas City Kansas Community College
7250 State Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66112
913-288-7671
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On Behalf Of Reginald George
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 9:18 AM
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Subject: [real-eyes] Fw: [aiphone] Bookshare Read2Go app: my first
impressions
Some notes on the new $20 Bookshare app for the IPhone. I still think it's
worth it. Especially if you can use it to read EPub files as well.
----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Hall
To: aiphone
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 8:51 PM
Subject: [aiphone] Bookshare Read2Go app: my first impressions
Hi all,
I just got the Read2Go app for Bookshare and other daisy books and
grabbed a book. It does what it says: it has two voices, the same ones
available in the desktop Bookshare application, which can read
content. You can search within your bookshelf, or search the bookshare
site and download books. Once downloaded, you are asked if you want to
"read now" or not in an alert. While reading, you have playback
controls along the bottom of the screen (next/previous phrase/section,
and play/pause in the middle). The top has a "bookshelf" button, plus
navigation and bookmark buttons. There is also a settings button, but
I am not sure if this changes global settings or just settings for the
book being read. Overall the app works well, and has a refreshingly
simple interface. However, I have already run into a few issues, some
of which may make some people re-think getting the app. Please
understand, though, that it may well be that I simply don't know how
to do something and the below may not be actual problems at all.
1. The text may be displayed on the screen, but vo can't see it. This
means that you can't use vo navigation to review the text. This has
serious implications: you can't see how something is spelled, you
can't use vo speech to read a book, and you can't read a book in
braille on a display.
2. As stated in #1, vo can't be used to read the text of a book. While
the voices that come with the app do sound good, they take up so much
memory that I was advised to close some apps on my iPod Touch 4th gen
when I had had a book open for a few minutes. What really worries me,
though, is that I only had the "settings" app in the App Switcher,
nothing else. It would be great to be able to use vo when my iPod does
not have the ram to support the Read2Go tts.
3. Double tapping a book always goes to a 'details' page, from where
you must find the "read" button. There seems to be no setting to just
open a book right from the bookshelf.
4. Again, ram is a serious problem. With no other apps running, I
tried going into the settings for a book and was told to close other
apps. When I tapped OK on that alert, I was returned to my bookshelf,
not to my book. This is going to be a deal breaker for iPod users, in
my opinion, unless there is some way to not use the third-party tts
voices.
Again, the app works well and does what it says it will do. No doubt
iPhone and iPad2 users, with their 512mb of ram (to the iPod's 256mb)
will not have these memory problems, at least not as badly, but the
lack of vo support when actually reading the text of a book is
certainly a concern. Yes, I understand that I may have missed fixes
for these, and I also understand that this is the very first release
of the app. I just wanted to get these notes out there for others who
investigate this app.
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Have a great day,
Alex (msg sent from GMail website)
mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap
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