Hi Josh and Chris, I never bothered to get additional voices to use the Voice reader within the Prizmo app, since I could use VoiceOver to review the material. The OCR functions are only meant to temporarily store results. Version 1 of Prizmo did have the Voice Reader function, too. It is still going to be easier for many people to use the StandScan Pro to quickly take pictures of documents to OCR, but I think that many more who found it difficult to use Prizmo freehand to take pictures of documents will find this possible. It is still not a replacement for the KNFB reader setup, as I understand it, for automatically adjusting everything when you take a picture.
The voice activated picture taking feature of the first version is gone. So I am using a split tap to activate the shutter. They've added some kind of stabilizer mode for the process of starting the manual picture taking when you activate the shutter button above the home button, which is announced as "Take Picture". You don't just get an immediate shutter opening and closing. I did like the voice activation feature of the first version, where you could just say "Take Picture", but this is more discreet, and doesn't have to drop VoiceOver's volume so you can get a good voice trigger. I now put one finger on the "Take Picture" button and raise the iPhone, then tap the screen with another finger to trigger the shutter and picture taking. While I can review the scanned material in the Prizmo app, I prefer to read the results as converted documents in another app. The export options have an "open in" function that lets to send the file easily to other applications, including apps like Dropbox or, VoiceDream reader. So I'm doing most of my reading in the VoiceDream reader app, with the InfoVox voices I purchased for that app. I guess that if I needed to use the translate option, which I believe requires an internet connection, and read text in another language, I might use in-app purchases of voices for Prizmo. But I think this is more of a convenience for people who don't already have VoiceOver turned on. The voices are the Infovox/iVox voices from the Acapela group, but include a couple of voices that aren't available for the Mac, like Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. (These are all available in VoiceDream reader, along with a few Neospeech English voices.). Originally, I couldn't figure out why the Chinese and Japanese voices were added to version 2 of Prizmo when the app doesn't OCR these languages (unlike TextGrabber), but then I realized it was for translation support. HTH. Cheers, Esther On May 15, 2013, at 1:39 AM, Josh Gregory <joshkar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, if you have no voices in the voice reader, you'll need to purchase some > first. I have the same problem and unfortunately at the current time I do not > have enough money in my iTunes account to buy voices. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 15, 2013, at 7:27 AM, "chris h (sky)" <challswor...@sky.com> wrote: > >> Hello all >> just got this wonderful update to the app. >> Haven't tried the Ocr function yet but have tried all I can do with the >> interface so far with excellent results. >> One issue I have is with the Voice Reader feature. It tells me I can type or >> paste some text, then click the play button. But when I click the play >> button nothing happens. Do I need to buy more voices? >> On the whole a wonderful update and I can't wait to put it through its paces >> with my posts etc. >> Chris. >> >> On 15/05/2013 05:50, Esther wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Sorry for the last post that only clipped the price and URL information of >>> version 2 of the Prizmo app. I meant to add a few other enthusiastic >>> comments. Not only is it easier to do an OCR, because if VoiceOver is on, >>> and the page size has been selected, the app will actually tell you when >>> you are too far to the left or right or need to move your camera, but you >>> can export the OCR results in either PDF or text and use the "open in" >>> function for compatible apps. Since I have VoiceDream reader, I can open >>> the exported text in that app, and to go along with Prizmo's support of >>> different languages, I can read the text in InfoVox voices for different >>> languages. Also, although I'm not using this facility, you can adjust the >>> font size of the text that you've exported either as PDF or Text format >>> when you read in VoiceDream Reader, so this is really cool if you're a >>> low-vision user. >>> >>> So to follow up on my original post, if you've been sent scanned PDF images >>> of documents from some bulk email distribution copying machine, you can >>> read that perfectly well with the Prizmo app -- even on iOS devices without >>> good cameras like the earlier iPod Touch models or earlier generation >>> iPads. And the export function works to put text into Dropbox, too. Plus >>> you can store these documents in VoiceDream Reader, and read multiple >>> language outputs, and use large fonts and highlighting. >>> >>> Since Prizmo supports a whole set of new languages, you could probably even >>> use this to read documents in some languages without supported voices, by >>> copying the OCR text results to clipboard, and pasting into a translating >>> app like Google Translate just to us the voice support for reading other >>> languages. I think someone asked about Hebrew voice support on the Mac, >>> and that's one of the text languages Prizmo can OCR, and that Google >>> Translate can read aloud. I'll have to fool around with the Russian >>> language download for Prizmo and try it out. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Esther > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. 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