I keep getting warnings and, when I exited settings, Voice Over was turned off. It uses Siri’s servers to process up to 30 seconds of speech at a time (remember to connect to the internet).
Speak to text app for mac software#
Apple Dictation is one of the best free speech to text software that comes built-in with most Apple devices. You can't just use it to read the text on a web page or, as here, in a book.In my case, I couldn't get the feature to work with iBooks. Best Free Speech to Text Apps for Mac/iPhone/iOS Devices 19) Apple Dictation. Turn on the features and your blasted Mac or iPad does voice-over for everything. Ordinary people are overwhelmed by all the options. It's designed in consultation with disability superusers, I told them. I've raised the problem with Apple's accessibility options with their team. VoiceOver will now read the whole book to you without further intervention.Maybe, maybe not.
Just turn VoiceOver on, tap a line in a book and then swipe down with two fingers. It is an absolute boon - since I discovered this just over two years ago I have read about 70 books. What is clearly even less well known is that you can use VoiceOver to read iBooks from cover to cover, without quite such complicated gestures - and it's been available long before Siri was even a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye. You'll have to hook up Apple's Bluetooth keyboard, but it will beat a lot of scrolling.Also, there is this from the MacWorld UK comments to this article: This is actually rather a limited way to use iBooks for audiobooks. I just checked, and it does select all the text in a book. It's a bit of trouble, but a lot of OS X keyboard commands will work with iOS, including Command-A to select all the text.
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