Hi, everyone,
I'm looking into Speech Central for a friend of mine, and I have some questions. I did recently re-download the app so I could play around with it and try and figure things out, but I am a little bit stumped.
So, here are my questions:
One. Are you limited to downloading files from just iCloud, or is Dropbox also supported?
2. Does the app support rtf, doc, and docx-Files?
3. I imported a copy of Black Beauty from Project Guttenberg into it to test reading, and it first started reading with a rather pleasant sounding female British voice. I paused the reading and left the app. When I came back into the app and resumed playback, the voice switched to a male British voice. I finally figured out how to get into the settings, only to see that the voice was apparently sent to vocalizer Samantha. What on earth is going on here? How can I get that female British voice back? I'm asking on behalf of myself, but also on behalf of my sighted friend who wants to get more into reading but who also doesn't read on screens because she already games a lot and she's trying to make sure her eyes stay healthy. I gather she has some eye strain going on. My friend, as far as I know, has never used text to speech before, and I think this female British voice would be an easy listening experience for her. I don't think it was Emma or Amy from Acapella (is that Acapella or Ivona)?
4. What voices does Speech Central support? I saw in the help that you apparently can't use the Siri Voices with Speech Central, which is a shame. I don't think my friend is going to want to pay a monthly cost for the Microsoft voices the app talks about.
5. Voice Dream Reader, which I'm way more Familiar with, lets you tap on a certain part of the text and then hit the play button, and the text to speech will pick up from the start of that line. Speech Central isn't doing this, however. I'm wondering, is there a way to make this happen?
6. Can you organize things into folders?
7. Can you rename documents once imported?
Any help with these questions is grately appreciated!
Thanks,
Shersey