Talk Forward Screen Reader

And so,

I understand how the three-finger rotor works.

You turn all three fingers clockwise or counterclockwise.

In addition, for either version of the rotor gestures to work easier, you may wish to unassign the two-finger groups actions and change them to something else. Or use the three-finger rotor for groups and keep the two-finger rotor gesture actions as they are by default. Or change the rotor actions to the two-finger left/right swipes.
At least on my phone with a screen protector, it works better that way.

As for the Talk Forward keyboard...

The only issue I have with it, is that it doesn't defult to, default. It defaults to characters. It should be defult, then you can cycle to characters if needed. Or if you're in an edit box, then I guess characters may may more since. But not outside of it. But then again, the enhanced keyboard with browserse mode uses arrorws going by letters and not by the default element. So, I'm not sure which is right.

Can't waitron try and make a voiceover keyboard layout since I found the scripting instructions. I never dealt with LUA before. Shouldn't' be too hard.

Almost forgot to mention, the practice screen currently doesn't have all talk forward bindings yet. I guess that's in the works?

• Stability, at depth: until now, a single failing feature could switch the whole screen reader off. A user reported Talk Forward restarting over and over on their Xiaomi after a reboot, before the first unlock — the cause was the translation feature crashing because its language models cannot start at that point. Rather than fix that one case, we went through everything that runs in the background or reacts to a gesture and put a net under it: a failure now costs the feature involved, never the reader. In practice that covers every gesture, every rotor entry, every menu, every accessibility event, and some thirty background tasks.
• Translation: when its models cannot start, it says so instead of stopping the reader.

• New, in beta: screen recognition. Some apps expose nothing usable — a game, a drawn view, an unlabeled button. Talk Forward can now rebuild what is on screen by combining what the app does reveal of its geometry with what text recognition reads from the pixels, then let you move through that model by swiping and activate by double-tapping. You switch it on app by app, from the "Screen recognition" rotor entry, and it stays inactive everywhere else. Text recognition runs offline and free for everyone; supporters additionally get AI analysis and a shared cache, which names silent icons once for every user. This is a first version: explore-by-touch is not available yet, and protected screens (banking, PIN entry) cannot be analyzed. Feedback welcome.

Also included since the previous stable release:

• Voice: fixed the reader going completely silent after a reboot when the speech engine (e.g. Vocalizer) failed to start — it now recovers automatically, falling back to eSpeak if needed.
• More robust startup: if an optional feature fails to start (device-dependent), the reader still comes up with at least speech and touch.
• Three-finger rotor: a new rotor alongside the two-finger one — the middle finger pivots while the outer two rotate around it.
• Field-aware letter keyboard: a dialpad for number fields and PINs, a number row for passwords, and @ and .com keys within reach for e-mail and web addresses.
• Calls: the answer/end-call gesture now works with WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal calls too, not just carrier calls.
• Physical keyboard shortcuts: the Alt key (left or right) can be used as the keymap modifier.
• Italian braille: updated comp6 table (Monza standard).
• Volume keys: fixed them sometimes feeling dead — they only move the cursor when the keyboard is actually up, otherwise they change the volume as before.
• New "Add to clipboard" action (assignable to a gesture): appends the focused item's text to whatever is already on the clipboard — fire it on several items to accumulate them.
• Braille keyboard: three-finger-up "send" no longer sometimes switches conversation instead of sending in some apps (e.g. Google Messages' web view).
• The braille/letter keyboard no longer triggers unwanted screen rotation.
• Updated for the latest Android and Google Play requirements.

It's a dilemma!

Is it better to become a Talk Supporter from the play Store or is it better to go the PayPal route. I myself can do either one of said mentioned options honestly. I've been just waiting for the right calling on wish one to go with.

Honestly?

Going the play store route means I get points for purchasing (particularly since I have Play Pass for an entire year).

So, the question then is:

If I have the play store version of Talk Forward on one phone, but the non-play store version on another phone, do I have to do a onetime payment for each phone?

Which I do not mind doing.

Ah, thanks for sharing!

Yeah, that does help.