Harry
I thought of switching my phone to Spanish but am terrified I won't understand
much. I understand that anything read will be read in English since that is the
language my phone is set to. What I want to see is the spelling of words in
phrases and sentences and verb conjugations, as well as lists of vocabulary.
The pronunciation is not the difficult part for me, and I can always go to the
i Phone translator and plug in the same words if I want to hear them pronounced
right.
I want to find some text books I can read on-line or download to my phone. I
don't need audio. Plenty of that is available through the recording houses for
the blind.
I've listened to a ton of language podcasts on YouTube, which are great
but the teachers write things on the board which do not appear anywhere other
than on the video for the sighted viewers pleasure.
Deidre
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From: 'Harry Bell' via VIPhone [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2020 11:22 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: text of language books
I have multiple language voices installed and, yes, VoiceOver recognises that
an Italian novel in Apple Books is to be read out in Italian - but a book in
English which has Italian conversations and vocabulary lists and verb tables in
Italian are still all read out in an English voice.
Harry
> On 11 Jan 2020, at 15:18, Richard Turner <richardturne...@outlook.com> wrote:
>
> If you set your VoiceOver voice to the default voice, it should change
> automatically.
> If you have multiple voices installed and are not using what shows as the
> default voice, it will not change automatically.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Richard
>
> 🖖 Live long and prosper
>
>
> Check out my web site at: www.turner42.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: 'Harry Bell' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2020 7:06 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: text of language books
>
> I am learning Italian but the Teach Yourself books I have in Apple Books are
> part English, partly in Italian and VoiceOver does not change automatically
> - so Italian words are often not recognisable when spoken. My only solution
> is to change the text size to pretty huge on my iPad so I can pick my way
> slowly through the lessons!
> Good luck!
> Harry
>
>> On 11 Jan 2020, at 14:15, 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone
>> <viphone@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>> I'm looking for books on beginner's Spanish. I want to see the written
>> words which I thought Voice Dream might work for. I know there will be
>> accent marks, but if a text is designed for both text alone or for
>> text and audio both, this might work. The translater on my iphone is
>> great, because it pronounces things properly plus allows you to look
>> at the spelling, but it's not a course of study.
>> I went to Apple books on my phone but most of the listings seemed to
>> be audio. I hit on the sample button for several offerings, and nothing read.
>> When I look at samples of other books, they read just fine, so I'm
>> thinking these are audio books not texts. I tried to sample flash
>> cards but they too would not read.
>> I'm thinking there might be something very obvious I am
>> overlooking, but it hasn't made itself apparent to me yet!
>> I've got the Duo Lingo App downloaded which both pronounces things
>> plus lets you spell them out so that is good, but sometimes it is very
>> slow and requires some typing input that is more than my hands will
>> allow. I also don't know how to move from lesson tolesson effortlessly
>> and don't understand the symbols like Chest, Heart, Sword, etc. I'll
>> be going along and doing a few lessons one after another then there is
>> the rewards thing and I'm no longer able to continue where I've left
>> off. It's not clear to me how to stay inside the lessons and continue
>> to proceed without getting back to what seems like the opening page.
>> I have a few books downloaded that I am listening to and that are
>> good but I'd like to see words printed out so I can lodge them more
>> permanently in my memory.
>> I fear if I buy a bunch of lessons on-line that it will be hit or
>> miss what works best with voice over. On the PC there are lots of
>> courses offered for money, but I likewise fear it would be hit or miss
>> to find what will work seamlessly with Jaws or System Access or any other
>> screen reader.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions of where to turn to to see lessons
>> written out for learning Spanish?
>>
>> Deidre
>>
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