Re: @voice Aloud Reader
Bubba Lual
@Voice Premium License removes all ads from the main @Voice Aloud Reader app and enables a few premium features. It can be purchased from Google Play Store. However if you need this license on a device where Play Store is not available, or for any other reasons prefer to order directly from us, click the above link. The Premium License is permanent and can be used on any Android device or emulator. After placing the order, your license key will arrive by email from...@hyperionics.com - please make sure to unblock this address in your SPAM filters.
* Long press on the Paste Text button or menu function will show a prompt, if the "plain text" or HTML code should be pasted, for rare cases when the original app, from which the text was copied, places both formats in the clipboard buffer.
* The "Encoding" menu item was removed from the "Reload or clear" menu (under the button with circular arrows button). It seems no longer needed and actually stopped working. Please let me know if you need it for something, and if you do, send me the original link or file on which the encoding choice was necessary.
* Other small stability and performance improvements.
* Semi-automatic work-around for loading pages that want you to verify that "you are human" - use Chrome (or similar) browser's Save function, and @Voice will automatically add them to the reading list, or read aloud at once. Enable under the Settings menu.
* Fix some small problems when loading a next chapter of an ebook, when the current one was translated.
* Disable Translate function when font "Boldify" or dialog changes are turned on (it does not work correctly in these situations)
* Under the Settings menu - Share icons, text and reading lists, added option to either open links you press in @Voice app, or in your default web browser
* Other stability and performance improvements.
* New feature - long press on a link in @Voice will select the whole link text and copy or share the link http address.
* Fix search to the next part of long text or ebook chapter world terminate search mode.
* Fix again the problem with the option to prefer horizontal reading mode in Japanese after the app restart.
* If while using automatic voice changes you want to switch voices (e.g. in a book dialog a man speaks with a female voice, and a woman with male) - just press the "Back" button on the screen or your headset.
* Fix block of Play/Pause button after some full screen ads
* Fix horizontal scrolling in Japanese vertical reading mode.
* Fix: copying Japanese text should not include ruby markup.
* Fix problem with the option to prefer horizontal reading mode in Japanese after the app restart.
* Fix problems with loading full page content when the Internet connection was down.
* New experimental feature - automatic voice changes when reading book or story dialogues. Enable and setup on the expanded bottom control panel.
* Added DeepL Translator to "Dictionaries" that can be set up after selecting some text.
* Stability and performance improvements.
* Added "Boldify" feature to show part of words in bold font, which helps read faster, at least to some people. Turn on/off under T+/- button on top - FONT tab
* Other stability and performance improvements.
* Fix problem with right-to-left text displaying incorrectly for some websites
* Fix incorrect language recognition in some HTML and ebook texts
* Fix the problem with freshly set bookmarks not being saved in some situations.
* Other stability and performance improvements.
* Code changes make possible creation of filters for automatic voice changes for book dialogs. At this time it's a manual process of creating JSON files with RegEx expressions. Not sure if if creating user interface for it is possible. Email author if you'd like to try this.
* Stability and performance improvements.
* Translate menu under circular arrows button has a new option to show bi-lingual text, each sentence in original and translated language. The app will read it with correct voices. Useful when learning languages.
* Voice changes instructions now work in the free version too.
* Improved export of reading list to EPUB, original PDF view and more.
* Function List to EPUB on the reading list's menu has now an option to create an epub file from all the articles on the list, or only from the selected articles. This choice is shown when the reading list has visible check-boxes next to each article title to select/de-select articles.
* The List to EPUB function now creates better EPUB files, compatible with many other ebook readers, although the articles may not look so well, or occasionally break the readers, if the HTML code on the saved articles is not compatible with EPUB format specification, which is much more limited than the general HTML format for web pages.
* The Translate menu on the "Reload or clear" button (circular arrows on top) has a new option to load a bi-lingual text - each sentence is loaded in the original and translated languages. The order of original - translated can be reversed. Voice change annotations are added to read aloud each sentence with a correct voice for their respective languages, but the app will read with voice changes only if you have @Voice Premium License (paid license to remove ads and enable advanced features)
* Text editing filters are now applied also to ebook chapters.
* After swiping away the media style notification, it does not come back by itself. You must start speech in @Voice app with the Play button, or start it with a headset button, to get that notification again.
* Fix multiple inconsistencies in text search mode.
* In Translate mode, Google Translation Widget was disappearing for some pages or books, when the "Preserve original styles" option was on.
* With android auto plugin, handles hardware media buttons Next and Previous on the car console. Requires also AvarAuto Plugin ver. 1.6 or newer.
* Relaxed network timeout for TTS, allowing to set it to as low as 1 second, or 0 to use default settings.
* Added retry count parameter for network voices. Now can be set to anything between 1 and 10, or 0 to use the default settings.
* Reading list screen has an option to show article titles truncated at the first vertical bar.
* Stability and performance improvements.
* Text search in case insensitive mode uses now the native search of WebView control/Google Chrome, which has relaxed rules to find e.g. some Arabic words written with or without extra diacritic marks.
* Enabled media style notifications on older versions of Android, down to 5.1. Change the style under the T+/- button on top - MODE tab.
* Export of edit speech files uses first the app file interface, press folder with cloud icon if system interface needed
* Stability improvements
* New media style notification on Android 13 and higher, stays on top of other notifications if app is playing, can be swiped away, prettier. Option to use old style notification is under T+/- button on top - MODE tab.
* Fix item duplication on the reading list problem, when batch-adding many files at once.
* Other important stability and performance improvements
@Voice Aloud Reader reads aloud the text displayed in an Android app, using the Text-To-Speech (TTS) engine installed on your device. Use it to listen to articles from news apps (e.g. Flipboard, BBC News, NPR News for articles that don't have audio yet), web pages, emails and anything else that can export text through Android "Share" or copy/paste features.
The most important part of this manual is about getting the contents to read into @Voice app, so we will start with this topic in section "1. Getting the contents". We will then discuss the program operation in section "2. Menu and controls", and finish with section "3. Advanced topics". All of these sections are important, so please try to read them, we've made them as short as possible.
You can import the text to read into @Voice in 3 ways: by using the "Share" feature in other apps, by copying text in other apps and pasting it into @Voice screen, or by opening text and HTML files from the file system of your device. The "Share" feature is the most practical, so we will starting with it.
In Android web browsers, when you see an interesting article and you'd like to listen to it now or add to @Voice list to listen to later, press the menu button (the 3 vertical dots button at top right) and find the "Share" or "Share page" menu item, or a button with 3 connected dots . Tap it and you will be presented with a list of installed apps that can accept a web page. Tap the @Voice button on this list if you want to listen to or read the text in @Voice now, or the "@Voice add to list" button , if you want to save this web page to the list of articles to be read/listened to later.
In many other apps, particularly in news reading apps, you may find a similar menu function, or a "share" button with an image such as this:. If there is no "share" button, you may also use "Send by email" function, e.g. one with the following graphics:. Some apps show these buttons all the time at the top or bottom of their screens. In other apps you need to tap briefly the text to make them show (e.g. BBC News, Flipboard).
In many programs that display text, you may press and hold your finger over the text to make "copy handles" - usually blue markers - appear. You may drag these handles to select a range of text to copy, or often you will also see a "Select All" button at the top to select all text. Then click the "Copy" button - either in the top or bottom row again, or under the "overflow 3 vertical dots" button. The selected text is now saved in an internal "clipboard" buffer. When you come back to @Voice, select the "Paste text" from the menu, or if visible the Paste button on top, and now you can either start listening to this text, or use the "Save" button/menu to save it for later.
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