by therisingblues » Wed Mar 15, 2017 6:53 pm
matt35 wrote:Booney wrote:therisingblues wrote:matt35 wrote:This may well be the end of me attending games if it is true. Being completely blind I rely on having a radio commentary of the game to allow me to get full enjoyment, to barrack like everyone else etc. Streaming the commentary is useless for me when I am at a game, because the nature of streaming means that the commentary is a good several seconds behind the actual play. I have tried it, it is hopeless.
Is there some sort of reading app that gives a computer voice to blog messages and the like?
Very sorry to hear that you will be affected so directly by the loss of radio broadcasting, if indeed, we do end up losing it.
Life won't be doing any games, TRB.
I use an app called JAWS. Basically it will read any text on the screen and convert it to speech. It also says each letter as I type it in. My iPhone has a similar app, called Voiceover. which allows me full access to the internet via my phone. All this has really only happened in the last 20 years.
Cheers Matt.
I am a little behind the times in many respects, so it might not be much for someone like me to say I'm impressed by that piece of technology. Others are probably reading this and thinking, "Of course!"
Does the app do a different voice for each poster? Or is it a standard computer voice, or do you program it?
I'm gonna sit back, crack the top off a Pale Ale, and watch the Double Blues prevail
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