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I am not blind, but I suspect you guys would be knowledgable about this subject. Looking for text to speech help. (self.Blind)
submitted 7y ago by SleeplessinRedditle
I use text to speech so that I can read while doing other things. The way I currently listen to comments on reddit is to highlight it and press speak. It works but it's annoying to navigate the page and doesn't fulfill my needs enough to justify the other frustrations. I also want to be able to queue up content and go.
All I want is to be able to press one button to read all of the text within a comment. Not interested in hearing "username x points y hours ago" before and the crap after. And I'd like to be able to choose a bunch of them to play in a queue.
It would be really nice to have a slimmed down app with directional buttons and a speak button for comment navigation. It would also be nice to be able to create reader modes for different subreddits. The order of reading is different in askreddit than in politics. I would love to be able to choose an askreddit post and just hear all the direct replies.
So I guess what I am asking is if there's a way to make custom reading queues up certain web elements and allows navigating reply trees with directional keys?
All I want is to be able to press one button to read all of the text within a comment. Not interested in hearing "username x points y hours ago" before and the crap after. And I'd like to be able to choose a bunch of them to play in a queue.
It would be really nice to have a slimmed down app with directional buttons and a speak button for comment navigation. It would also be nice to be able to create reader modes for different subreddits. The order of reading is different in askreddit than in politics. I would love to be able to choose an askreddit post and just hear all the direct replies.
So I guess what I am asking is if there's a way to make custom reading queues up certain web elements and allows navigating reply trees with directional keys?
lhamil64 1 points
It doesn't seem too difficult to make a little app that would just loop through all the comments on a post and read their content. In fact, it might be pretty easy in Python using the reddit API, as long as there's a decent text to speech library.
SleeplessinRedditle [OP] 1 points
That's kinda where I'm headed. Pretty much learning as I go, though.
romanj35 1 points
Welcome to some of the 'many' complaints about screen readers. Granted, I'm no expert myself as I use mobil devices primarily. But I'd like to add to your wishlist...
I'm not sure if it's been added, but last time I used a reader it also didn't have the 'voice over' like Google's Talk Back does, and voice-over of course.
I was kinda hoping that by now some kind of mouse over would be implimented into the screen readers. You move the mouse over some text or icons that get read aloud to you. Think I might need to go into some of the optional readers and see how they work now.
I'm not sure if it's been added, but last time I used a reader it also didn't have the 'voice over' like Google's Talk Back does, and voice-over of course.
I was kinda hoping that by now some kind of mouse over would be implimented into the screen readers. You move the mouse over some text or icons that get read aloud to you. Think I might need to go into some of the optional readers and see how they work now.
SleeplessinRedditle [OP] 1 points
Yeah. I use mobile primarily, too. iOS specifically. VoiceOver is a pain in the ass. It really seems like options for you guys are piss poor. Are they just not really bothering or is it a technical problem I'm missing?
I've been toying around with some ideas that could help browsing for a couple weeks and have a basic framework in my head that seems workable and doesn't seem to exist. But the problem could be harder than I'm imagining.
I've been toying around with some ideas that could help browsing for a couple weeks and have a basic framework in my head that seems workable and doesn't seem to exist. But the problem could be harder than I'm imagining.
fastfinge 4 points
The issue is that these products are aimed at folks like me, who are totally and completely blind. If you can't see at all, you can't use the mouse, so really don't care in the slightest what the screen-reader does with it. Also, we need all of the controls read out so we can actually, you know, use them. So I do want to hear the username, the upvote buttons, the downvote buttons, and so on, and so on, because I might actually want to vote, or know who posted the comment. If you do decide to make an app for the partially sighted, feel free! But if the fully blind can't also use it, I suspect you might find your market is just painfully small.
romanj35 1 points
I'm fully blind and still want my mouse-over idea to work lol.
To me it would work the same way and same concepts as the voice over and talk back methods.
To me it would work the same way and same concepts as the voice over and talk back methods.
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