The marker for speech is a highlighted word called the speech cursor. You can play and pause just as you would in any music player. The controls for text-to-speech are similar to those for listening to music. And you want to ignore case because you want to replace all caps “LOL” also. Here, you want to match by word, so that “lollipop” would not be affected. To pronounce “lol” as “laughing out loud”, the rules is: And you don’t want to ignore case, because you don’t want to skip the words “moby dick” in the main text. You want to match “Anywhere” because the search text is not a word. If the value is 1 (Skip), then the pronunciation text is ignored.įor example, to skip the words “Moby Dick” since it is the book’s title which appears on every page of a PDF file, the rule is: Pronunciation rule type: 0=Pronounce As, 1=Skip.

This is how you want the search text pronounced. “Any Text” search results in a match no matter where the search text appears even if it’s a full sentence, or a string that appears as a part of a word. For word search, it is considered a match only if the search text is a single word, and it appears in the text as a single word and not a part of another word. 0=Word, 1=Anywhere, 2=Regular Expression. This is the string that you want to search for.

For each rule, there’re 5 fields separate by commas.

Fortunately, you can create or edit the rules using a plain text editor and paste it into Voice Dream Reader. If you want to build a large pronunciation dictionary, you might want to create or edit the rules on your Mac or PC. Thanks to Nicky Sanders for supplying these instructions. NOTE: You will notice that the text overlaps slightly from one page to the next, so the last few words of the previous page are repeated at the beginning of the next page. Repeat these steps to continue reading through the file. The focus is placed at the beginning of the next page of text and you can read it by panning repeatedly to the right in the usual way, until you reach the ‘Bookmark’ button.

Once the Scroll command has been executed, the Braille display briefly shows the percentage of progress through the file, and then it goes blank.

To scroll up to the previous page, press Space with dots 3-4-5-6, which is the equivalent of a ‘three-finger swipe down’. This is the ‘Scroll down one page’ command and it is the equivalent of a ‘Three-finger swipe up’ using VoiceOver on the touchscreen.

To scroll to the next page of text, press Space with dots 1-4-5-6.

This step is important, otherwise the Scroll command in the next step will not work. This will move the focus back into the text area and the Braille display will be blank.

Now pan the Braille display once to the left, using Space with dot 2 or an equivalent navigation command.

You will know that you have reached the end when the focus lands on the ‘Bookmark’ button. Continue to pan the display to the right until you reach the end of the block of text that is currently visible. pressing Space with dot or using an equivalent command, if available on your display.

You can now start reading the contents of the file by panning the Braille display to the right in the usual way, i.e.Move through the various elements using Space with dot 4 or an equivalent command that may be available if your Braille display has navigation keys, until you reach the words ‘Next item’.With a file open in Voice Dream, move to the first element on the screen by pressing Space with dots 1-2-3 on the Braille keyboard.I am using a BrailleNote Apex BT32 and an iPhone 4S, but I hope these basic instructions will be general enough to work with any Braille display and iOS device.

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