#voicedreamreader — Public Fediverse posts

For all those Voice dream reader users out there, I have a question. I'm trying to reinstate my 16 gb library after signing out anback into I cloud, but trying to do this in library settings simply gives me a progress bar stuck at 0% and an error telling me that it could not complete operations because other operations were running. Does anyone have any ideas? Contacted vdr support and haven't heard anything. #voicedreamreader #voicedream #IOS #VoiceOver #Accessibility

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Any of my blind followers use #VoiceDreamReader to listen to audio books? What do I have to do to make the app able to access those? Put them in a single Zip file? Which structure do these Zip files need to have?

I'll miss all the voices I bought in there but that $59 price is a much harder sell this year if I'm being honest. #VoiceDreamReader

To renew or not to renew my #VoiceDreamReader subscription. That is the question.

I've hit my breaking point with the #enshittification of #VoiceDreamReader. Anyone migrated away from it and has alternatives to suggest? Please boost.

Its always been buggy since the acquisition with brief audio glitches and not working with play/pause controls on my airpods.

The latest update introduced AI enhanced voices to try getting me to subscribe. My problem is one of those voices is now the default and I have to set it back to Eloquence when I restart the app since it doesn't save.

Is anyone else having this problem with #VoiceDreamReader?IOpenItItSaysMostOfMyFilesAren’tAvailable.ButYetItTellsMeInTheEpisodesAndI’veBeenListeningToTheProgressIsItSomethingStuck?DoINeedToDeletethe app and reinstall it what’s going on?

I did figure out what the issue is with #VoiceDreamReader and zipped files with mp3's. In this new release, it appears that you can't have multiples folders inside a zipped file now. I had it set up for years where I'd have multiple "seasons" for instance, within the cipped folder, each SEASON HAVING THEIR OWN EPPISODES. Now, not sure if this is a bug, or what, but the xipped file can only be one level deep now for the mp3's to be read.

(Edit: this post is not accurate, as Voice Dream is actually owned by the app acquisition company Applause (https://applause.dev), and not Applause App Quality, Inc. (https://applause.com). The latter company offers accessibility testing services, the former does not.)

The current owner of #VoiceDreamReader is the Applause group, who offer #accessibility auditing and testing services to many high-profile clients. When Applause are paid to evaluate the accessibility of a product, they are expected to point out some of the exact issues that have been raised in relation to their work on #VoiceDream, such as controls that have no labels or accessible role information, images without alt text, etc.

This hints at a wider problem in the industry, where companies are "cashing in" on the market for accessibility-related services without actually being that invested or incentivised to do good work. Do Applause work with #disabled testers? Was anybody there tasked with testing the application with a #screenReader and other #assistiveTechnology? If not, it raises questions about whether their accessibility services are a force for good, or are actually causing harm.

I’m sure this is an oft-asked question, but what do people use instead of Voicedream Reader these days? It has been getting worse and worse in my experience, culminating in the Mac OS version completely locking up when I open it, seemingly with no end. I know I have a huge library, and it’s definitely downloading stuff, but it’s horrendously unusable these days, sorry to say. So: what’s next? #VoicedreamReader #reading #tts #ReaderNotResponding #recommendations

In #VoiceDream Reader, does anyone know if it's possible to use Backreferences for group captures in a regular-expression-based pronunciation dictionary replacement? I've tried `\1`, `$1`, and `\k<1>`, but the syntax is always passed directly through to the synthesiser without the text captured by the group. #VoiceDreamReader #accessibility