Yes, I still get those annoying log-in requests, any ideas welcome.
TF
On 11/05/2018, at 6:56 AM, Cheryl Homiak <cahomiak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am sending this to the list a second time. I keep forgetting that even
though my subscription email to this list is now my gmail address, the
replies keep coming to my icloud address. So without looking a sent from
icloud but am now sending from gmail.The voiceover list still is the only one
on which this happens.
What I previously posted from wrong email:
thisI am about to post about this very subject under a different thread so
people who are not interested in Kindle per se will see it. The stoppages do
seem to be possibly connected with that mysterious voicing about login that
people have been posting for a while. Will post about that more fully here in
a minute under more relevant thread.
On May 8, 2018, at 10:14 PM, Benjamin Blatter <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Cheryl
Thanks for sharing this discovery. I never have read really long books on my
mac yet. One question I have: Did perhaps a screen saver or another energy
saving option kick in after about 30 minutes so that your mac would stop
reading?
Kind regards
Ben
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Cheryl Homiak
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2018 03:22
An: macvoiceover List
Betreff: [macvoiceover] Listening to Kindle books continuously without
interruption on the Mac
Part of this email was posted to the vi-kindle list but I thought it would
be helpful to some on this list also. I am adding more content in posting it
to macvoiceover.
I was unable to find a reliable way to have Kindle for the Mac's text to
speech read an entire book without stopping and having to be resumed. This
was the case even when in continuous reading mode in Kindle. It might do
this with a short book but I wouldn't count on it and certainly not for
anything more than a half hour or so. I also think that the speech to text
is not actually built into the Kindle application on the Mac but that Kindle
somehow activates the built-in text to speech so it would be hard to
troubleshoot and change that behavior. But there is another way to listen to
Kindle books on the Mac.
I have found a rather novel way of listening to Kindle books on the Mac
continuously without interruption. I discovered that the "reverb"
application, which is also available on iOS devices (maybe android too but I
can't remember) is available for the Mac. This app allows you to use Amazon
Echo to some extent on the Mac. It is a little tricky with voiceover because
you can't really do a click and hold; even with the trackpad this doesn't
seem to work. But I found that I could do vo-space on the speak button
usually twice. The second time I could hear the sound the echo makes when
awakened. Also voiceover should say "listening" and it is also visible with
braille. I say my command (no wake word needed at this point) and do
vo-space on the speak button usually just once. Voiceover announces
"thinking" and then the answer to your command is given. If using braille
you can mute voiceover if you wish and use the routing keys to activate the
speak button. At any rate, I can say "play my kindle book" and give the name
of the book and the book is read aloud for me. As far as I know you can not
speed this up but you should be able to listen to the whole book without
interruption. I listened to one book that was several hours long without a
problem. In one instance I did have a stop in one book and I suspected it
had something to do with using voiceover while in the reverb window so to be
safe I turned off or muted voiceover.
. Reading is done with the normal echo voice and not with voices on the Mac.
For this reason it appears that the speech is controlled from reverb and not
from the Mac's text-to-speech program.
Reverb also works for other requests. I have asked what time it is and
requested weather information. I enabled the sermonaudio skill and asked
sermonaudio to play a sermon from "my church" which I had set up previously
on one of my physical echoes. Now that I know how to get reverb to work I am
getting very fast at issuing commands, pressing the speak button again to
have the echo think and receiving my answer.
Hth.
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