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iOS text to speech from iBooks
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. I just checked, and it does select all the text in a book. 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. 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. It is an absolute boon -- since I discovered this just over two years ago I have read about 70 books. Just turn VoiceOver on, tap a line in a book and then swipe down with two fingers. VoiceOver will now read the whole book to you without further intervention.Maybe, maybe not. I've raised the problem with Apple's accessibility options with their team. It's designed in consultation with disability superusers, I told them. Ordinary people are overwhelmed by all the options. Turn on the features and your blasted Mac or iPad does voice-over for everything. 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. I keep getting warnings and, when I exited settings, Voice Over was turned off. Why it would do that is beyond me. And if I can't manage, image what it's like for those with actual disabilities. |
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