To be honest, I haven't used the android version of Voice Dream all that much.
And, being totally blind, I couldn't comment on any of the differences that
might exist for low vision or other print impaired, hate that expression,
users. The things that turned me off were the following. There aren't as many
voice choices on the android side as there are on the iOS side. If you do a
search in bookshare, and you get a list of books that fit your search, you
can't stay in the search list and download as many things as you want. Each
time you do a download, you have to redo your entire search. And selecting your
preferred voice is not easy, because the names of the voices don't always show
up in a meaningful way. I had this with the ivona voices. And regarding voices,
Neo speech, such as James, those voices are not available at all. Also,
downloads fail quite often. And when that happens, you're not in your search
anymore. So you have to go redo the search in order to get another chance to
download the book. Those were the things that stopped me from using the app.
People on the eyes freelist have had other complaints. But I don't remember
what they all were. The app does work to read books, once you get some
downloaded. But it's just very kludgy an awkward compared to the iOS version.
And now that we have the big update for iOS with cloud sync among other things,
there are even more differences. It wouldn't be a big deal, because this was
version one after all on android. But since Winston has said there won't be
more development, I would hesitate to recommend the app to anyone. If you're
happy with the default voice or the one free a cappella voice that you can get,
although I don't know if that would hold true for the Kindle store version, and
you have better luck than I did with download failures, then maybe it would be
OK. And it's not that much money. At the very least, I would want to write
voice dream support to find out if Winston has had a change of mind about
further development.
Mary
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On Apr 24, 2016, at 8:11 AM, Russ Kiehne <russ94577@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What are the differences between the android and ios versions?
-----Original Message----- From: Mary Otten
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 7:54 AM
To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: Voices for fire tablet
If voice dream on Kindle is the same as the android version, which I assume
it is, it is not as good as the iOS version. I did buy the android version. I
believe development has ceased, so you might take that into account when
deciding whether you want to buy it or not.
Mary
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On Apr 24, 2016, at 7:46 AM, Russ Kiehne <russ94577@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And for those who have the latest Fire tablet, I would highly recommend you
buy the voice dream reader app from the Kindle app store.
-----Original Message----- From: Mary Otten
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 3:47 PM
To: vi-kindle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vi-kindle] Re: Voices for fire tablet
The voice I would like would be the Kendra voice. I have it on a PC and also
on my android device and on my iPhone with voice dream reader. I had an old
Kindle fire, but it couldn't be updated to the latest version of voiceview.
It has the old screen reader. And you couldn't get any voices for it except
for what came on the device. I heard that with the new ones, there were
other voices available in the Amazon Kindle store or whatever they call that
Store that isn't Google play store. Since Amazon owns ivona, maker of all
those voices, it would be nice to see all of them in the Kindle play store
or App Store. That's why I was wondering what was there.
Mary
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On Apr 23, 2016, at 3:07 PM, Melissa Tucker <melissatucker4@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Not sure, but I wish the kindle fire had. the alexa voice.
On Apr 23, 2016, at 4:40 PM, Mary Otten <motten53@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think that the Kindle fire tablet come with Joey and Sally voices
installed. Is that correct? If so, which other voices are available from
the Kindle store?
Mary
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