Well well, it's turning into quite a week for VoiceDream, isn't it? Here's the problem I'm having: one of the best things about VoiceDream has always been the ease of selecting text; except that, to celebrate the bringing in of the annual subscription' that functionality appears to be broken. there should be a button next to the play button labelled: "select text" but now it's a seasaw or playdround and unlabelled. You can get it to tell you to swipe
adown to expand selection by sentence like you used to, but it no longer tells you what you're selecting. So' in the past it used to say something like "33 words, beginning with there was and ending with farmer." Swipe down again and you'd get "87 words, starting with one day and ending with combine harvester." you get the idea. All that is now gone. It seems only to read the first word of the sentence you're selecting. once you're done selecting text (assuming you have any idea where you are and whether you've selected what you want) you can double tap to proceed as many times as you like but it won't do ya no good.
How ironic that this functionality has broken this week, eh? I would pay $60 to have it back working again.
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Hope it’s fixed soon.
I haven’t had to contact their support team yet, but hopefully they’ll respond quickly when the bug is reported. Fingers crossed.
(I’m irrationally nervous about Voice Dream’s future now; it’s the only reading app so far that works almost perfectly with my physical accessibility needs/settings as well, and I would hate to lose it if it eventually drops off or dries up or whatever the right phrasing is. Oh well.)
It works, inconsistently
I have possibly found a work-around. I will report back if it appears consistently to resolve the problem. Whether it does or not is the $60 question. for now, the work-around is this: selecting text appears to work as normal (apart from the unlabelled button) if the phone's in landscape mode. It doesn't appear to work as normal otherwise. I could live with that if it proves reliable. First problem I've ever had with a VoiceDream app though - feels a bit like a betrayal by a dear old friend, in software terms at least.
It works for me.
Good morning,
It works for me.
I just selected a few words from a book I’m reading.
I used the single finger swipe method.
I have an iPhone 13 Pro Max running ios16.4.1.
Update
There was just an update released today; maybe that will help?