#text to speech reader

[sag-dab-sar]

Monetizing Accessibility

I wrote a review awhile ago for an app that I heavily relied on due to my dyslexia and TBI— Speechify. Its a text-to-speech reader that I can take photos of text books or signs and have them read to me. I used it plenty. You can take as many photos as you want, upload them, and have it read to you. Well..... thats what you used to be able to do. Then I updated the app and tah dah the main feature is behind a paywall!!! I can upload 3 files (photo/photoset) only! And if I want more I have to pay THIS fucking much:

So I updated my app review from 5 stars to 1

Then a long time later I got this email:

"One time discount" on something that was fucking free. Its the most basic feature. There were plenty of additional features to pay for and ads prior. Now the ENTIER goddamn app, including the absolute most basic function, above 3 files is behind a $140 paywall. I don't want 90% of the features just keeping files like I could before. Its not even a one time fee; its a subscription. As if my TBI and dyslexia only lasts a year. Not to mention I already deleted my entire library.

I fucking hate how goddamn expensive being disabled it is. The email is an insult.

#speechify #app #disability #cripple punk #cpunk #tbi #tbi is physical disability imo 🤷🏻‍♀️ #dyslexia #neurodivergence #accessibility #text to speech #text to speech reader #disabled #fuck them so goddamn much #subscriptions #monetization #i was fine with the app becoming usless but this email enraged me

[massivebreadshark]

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#Text to Speech Reader

[whumpacabra]

Writing Accessibility PSA

Please avoid using long strings of characters as line breaks in your writing - these are not screen reader/TTS friendly!

Every ‘°’ will be read as ‘degree’ - can you imagine how long it takes to read out a string of 25? Let alone more complicated combinations of characters (eg. imagine listening to TTS read out ~*~ |°| ~*~ multiple times per line break)?

A good rule of thumb is to stick with short, 2-3 character line breaks (eg. I don’t find — or *** too egregious to listen to). Your readers can tell there’s been a scene change whether you use two or twenty em-dashes, but if you use twenty, some of us might have to listen for 30 seconds to read the next scene. If you’re more concerned about aesthetics, you can insert an image of your aesthetically pleasing line break with alt text simply reading ‘line break’ for accessibility.

Don’t feel bad if this is something you’ve never thought about before - now you know better and can make your writing more accessible moving forward!

I would like to invite any other screenreader users to add their own thoughts or preferences to this post. We’re not a monolith and there’s a variety to how different softwares interact with repeating character strings and images with alt text, so there’s bound to be some conflicting opinions on what I’ve suggested above. Let’s try to make the stories we share accessible for everyone :]

#writing #accessibility #line breaks #linebreaks #screen readers #tts #text to speech #whump community #<- applicable to any digital writing but tagging for my own reference. as this is my whump blog. #maybe I’m old but back in my day there was a little kerfuffle about how many people kept using complicated character string linebreaks #on ao3 which has a native line break you can insert via html #I don’t know if you can still do that on tumblr desktop with all the changes recently so I’ve been sticking to my trusty — #this is all in good faith no harm no foul and I’m not a cop so do what you want with your linebreaks. #I’m just putting this out there because it wasn’t something I really thought about before using a screenreader myself

[girl-named-matty]

HL characters react to you getting flowers from someone else - Modern AU

Receiving flowers that weren't from them. Tags: Fluff, hints at jealousy, girlfriend is used to refer to the reader twice (can be swapped out for "lover" to make it gn), y/n is used once. Parings: Sebastian x reader, Ominis x reader, Garreth x reader, Leander x reader, Amit x reader, Natty x reader, Imelda x reader, Poppy x reader ...

Hellooo everyone 👀. As you can probably tell, I am getting into some new content. with this modern texting AU! Lmk what you guy's think of this and if you would like to see more content like this!! ..

I hope you all enjoyed ❤️

#hogwarts legacy #hl #sebastian sallow #ominis gaunt #garreth weasley #hogwarts legacy mc #mc #Leander Prewett #Amit Thakkar #imelda reyes #poppy sweeting #natsai onai #Sebastian Sallow x reader #Ominis Gaunt x reader #Garreth Weasley x reader #Leander Prewett x reader #Amit Thakkar x reader #Natsai onai x reader #Imelda Reyes x reader #Poppy sweeting x reader #Hogwarts legacy fandom #hl smau #modern au #also before anyone asks #there are phones for blind people that have text-to-speech options so it reads you the messages and can write messages for you #so we're just gonna say omins has one of those LOL #hogwarts legacy modern au

[jadewritesficshere]

Painting

Modern!Eddie Munson x Female!Reader

Contains: nudes, mutual masturbation, phone sex

18+ only

Eddie flopped face down onto his mattress with a sigh. After working all day, playing at the Hideout, and then hauling all of the bands' equipment, he was wiped. He wanted nothing more then to smoke and go to sleep. His phone pinged with a notification. A contact under the name "Loser" had messaged him, causing a split second of confusion before a lazy grin spread across his face when he realized it was you (he had forgotten he changed it when high). You had been unable to come see Corroded Coffin play tonight as you had made previous plans.

Loser: How did it go?? Good?? Bad??

Loser: Was that one chick who wants to be a groupie there??

Eddie: went ok. Y u jealous?

Loser: just curious lol

Eddie: sure. Wbu?

Loser: Good! Robin and Nancy came. We had a nice dinner. We did paintings! Robin's looks better then mine. Mine looks like shit 😔 now just taking a bath and relaxing.

Eddie: show me?

Loser: lol no???

Eddie: y not? I'm sure it good

Loser: you sure?

Eddie: yes

Loser: fine

Eddie doubted your painting looked bad. You always tore yourself down, even when you did amazing things. He always wanted to throttle you, but knew he would be a hypocrite if he did. Eddie rolled onto his back and looked at the ceiling. He would convince you one day that you were awesome, but until then he would just have to keep reminding you. His phone dinged with a new message from you. He opened it and saw a picture attached and-

Immediately dropped his phone. His heart picked up speed. His eyes widened and face flushed. Eddie dove for the phone as if it were a life preserver and he was drowning. He couldn't believe his eyes. He licked his lips and stared at his phone.

A picture from your neck down. Bubbles in the bath around you. Water was running down your collarbone towards your tits. Your nipples barely covered by the bubbles. One boob having no bubbles around it at all, but your hand flipping him off blocked him from seeing more. He was greedy. He wanted to see more, and had never imagined you would send him this to begin with. Eddie looked down at the tent that had formed in his boxers.

Loser: ask nicely next time 😤

Eddie groaned and his dick twitched. You had totally misunderstood him, he had wanted to see your painting- of course he was more then glad for this outcome. However, he couldn't quite unsee what you had sent, nor would he want to. Eddie reread your text. Next time means more than just this once. Means maybe he could see more. Means maybe he has a better shot with you then he thought. He already overthought things with you many times, and now his brain had just switched to overdrive.

A million thoughts ran through his head as his hand traveled south. He paused briefly," Oh fuck it." He grabbed his dick over his boxers, causing the outline to be very noticeable. He took a pic before sending it to you. He would have felt bad about not sending a message with it, but he would have sat there for ages trying to think of a response. And he couldn't find it in himself to care as he pressed lightly against his dick.

He dropped his phone on his stomach. All Eddie could think about was you as he pulled his dick out of his boxers. Your soap covered tits. How beautiful they looked.. He licked his hand before slowly grasping his dick and squeezing the base, causing the tip to flush more. The pressure causing him to moan. He slowly stroked up and down his length. He picked up the pace, canting his hips up to meet his hand. Part of him wanted to go slow, but the rest of him wanted to get this over with quick so he could do it again and again and again. His chest heaved and sweat started to form on his brow. A sigh fell from his lips that quickly turned to a moan at the thought of it being your hand wrapped around him. How small your hand would look on his dick. How-

His stomach tensed and he jolted as his phone started vibrating and your ringtone played. The vibrations on his lower stomach felt so good, he was tempted to let it keep playing, but the urge to hear your voice was stronger. With his free hand he grabbed the phone and answered. "H-hello?" Eddie asked, panting into the phone. "Oh fuck, Eddie," your voice higher than normal sounded like music to his ears. Eddie moaned and your response was a whimper. "Fuck babe, see what you do to me?" Eddie's voice felt like sandpaper, he was surprised he could even find words. "Uh-huh." The sound of water splashing caught Eddie's attention," holy shit. Are you touching yourself?" "Wish it were you."

Eddie's mind went fuzzy as he picked up speed. The schlick noise picking up, his mind filtering out everything except your moans. "Sound so good. Wish I was there." Eddie mumbled, feeling his tip leaking generously. He was so close. "Fuuuck Eddie I'm gonna-" your sentence was cut off with a moan and he lost it. His hips bucked without rhythm and cum spurted everywhere. He never understood the phrase of people seeing stars behind their eyes until now, but they were more like fireworks. He had never cum this much in his life, not even when he had first found porn.

He slowly came back down, a euphoric feeling enveloping him. A warmth spread in his chest as it heaved, trying to catch a breath. He looked down and saw his shirt covered with his release. Your chuckle pulled him back to earth. "Uh so that happened...so whatcha gonna do about it Munson?" He hummed," Think i should ask you for a date." "You should."

Eddie had the biggest grin when you finally got off the phone, date planned for Friday night. He looked down at your contact name before changing the s to a v. He was going to find that painting you did and make sure it hung over his bed, so he could remember this night forever.

#Eddie eventually tells you about the misunderstanding and you just become more and more embarrassed #You asked him to delete the pic out of embarrassment and he goes on and on about how it is art and how beautiful it is and refuses #He later comes back to you and tells you if you want him to delete it he will and you just laugh and tell him to keep it #He agrees tho that your painting does suck to which you say “yeah I do” and give him a pointed look and he doesn't catch on #Until you huff and grab him and look him in the eyes and flat out tell him what you're offering #Shoutout to my friend who did this to me (it was a clothed pic tho) and I went BRO? and immediately clarified #But it started this thought and it wouldn't shake me loose until I wrote it so here yall go #Idk how to end things and idk how to write smut so take this and do with it as you will #My dumbass over here getting too lost in my own mind to write well fjdjsls #Eddie Munson #Modern!Eddie Munson #Eddie Munson x reader #Eddie Munson/reader #Eddie Munson x y/n #Eddie Munson x you #Eddie Munson/you #Eddie Munson smut #Eddie Munson x female!reader #Stranger Things #Also Eddie absolutely uses only text speech and you get frustrated with it #Jade is Talking

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

Jeeves novels drinking game is you take a shot every time Bertie makes a point of demonstrating that he won that Scripture Knowledge Prize fair and square

#i love this bit because gussie’s drunken speech is rarely mentioned again in-text #but if you’ve read right ho jeeves you’ll catch the implication that bertie is still REALLY sore about it #little easter egg for the loyal readers #jeeves and wooster #bertie wooster #gussie fink-nottle

[genshinpng]

Gaming - Character site profile art and splash art

#type_profile_art #type_splash #chara_gaming #region_liyue #element_pyro #tagging him as gaming for consistency but using ga-ming for image ID because im afraid text to speech will read it as gaming as in #playing games #if you use a screen reader let me know if it works! #id in alt text

[spaceyflowerswriting]

🗨️ (the text thingy i have a different emoji 😭)

Hey Vasco, would you want to come and learn salsa with me?? And after, we could get some food at that restaurant you like, it would be a cute little date..?

Vasco sat in his desk, head resting down in his crossed arms. He had been staring at his phone in front of him for the past 10 minutes. Ever since the two of you talked during lunch, he had been excitedly waiting for the offer you said you were going to text him.

When it finally arrived, he practically lunged for his phone, despite it being front of him, and eagerly read through. He replied without even thinking:

SALSA SOUNDS REALLY GOOD!!

Learn salsa...

Oh the dance?! Or making it..??? I'm happy either way 😋

Food after sounds good too!! It's a date confirmed!! ✨✨✨

#lookism x reader #vasco x reader #texts #sparklingtragedy #dw about the emoji <3 !! at least its a speech bubble sjdhwjdj #btw thank u for the vasco stuff its always fun/cute writing this guy ^_^ #same compliment goes to ur ideas/requests 🫶

[yeetacai]

In my free time, I've made some silly art of the whole Tumblr CEO trans rights debacle. Was trying to decide if I wanted to share it or not because I am sort of attached to my account and beloved mutuals. Would rather my account not be banned. But, I guess that just goes to show that anti-trans sentiment silences free speech. Anyway...

Man Door Hand Hook Car Hammer Explosion Matt

Trans Rights and Trans Solidarity 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍⚧️

For this Perler piece, I used @auratale hammer car design and put it into a Pixel-Bead Converter.

I hated how it looked when I ironed it, so I put that bad boi into the oven and melted it into a puddle.

Anyway,

TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

Here is a site that tracks Anti-Trans bills throughout the United States. This site is FILLED with good info about active bills that have been introduced both nationwide and by state. Go take a look and see what's out there. Knowledge is power.

Get involved in your local trans support groups. Or, if that's not your type of activism, accepting and being their for your trans friends, relatives, neighbors, etc. goes a long way.

It's all of us, or none of us.

Take care! <3

#tumblr ceo #matt mullenweg #photomatt #man door hand hook car door #car hammer explosion #hammer car explosion #carhammerexplosionmatt #trans rights #free speech #it's all of us or none of us #Hopefully my image alt text is good for those who need it! #If there's any way to make it more reader/listener friendly #let me know! #my art #perler art #perler beads #long post #lgbtq+ #queer #queer as in fuck you

[summerhighlandfalls]

Speaking each other’s language 💕

#one more narumitsu for the road #ace attorney #my art #narumitsu #wrightworth #id in alt #idk if screen readers pick up other languages? sorry if you have to sit though an English text to speech thing reading Japanese or German

[techniktagebuch]

22. Januar 2024

grblpp grblpp grblpp: Hörbücher mit 730 Wörtern pro Minute

Kristin: Ich habe eine App, die heißt Bookshare, kennst du die?

Kathrin: Nein.

Kristin: Die hat sehr viele Bücher und ich kann mir die alle anhören, das ist sehr gut für mich. Ich hör mir die Bücher da an mit 730 Wörtern pro Minute. Aber es ist eine Roboterstimme, die die vorliest. Das ist gut, weil es sich dann nicht komisch anhört, wenn es so schnell ist. Also nicht komischer als es sich sowieso schon anhört.

Kristin öffnet die App und startet ein Buch. Ich höre nur "grblpp grblpp grblpp" und verstehe nicht ein einziges Wort. Vielleicht, sage ich mir, liegt es daran, dass es Englisch ist. Aber wahrscheinlicher ist es, dass ich auch auf Deutsch nichts verstehen würde. Meine Zuhörfähigkeiten sind auch in meiner Muttersprache und schon im normalen Tempo gering. Ich könnte mir zwar auch vorstellen, dass mir das Zuhören nur zu langsam geht, bin der Frage aber nie nachgegangen, weil ich eben einfach nicht gern zuhöre. Wenn es zu einem Podcast oder einem Video ein Transkript gibt, lese ich das Transkript, das geht noch schneller als das Anhören einer beschleunigten Aufnahme. Glaube ich jedenfalls.

Kristin: Ich mach das seit sechs Jahren so. Am Anfang hab ich die Bücher ungefähr im normalen Tempo gehört, 230 Wörter pro Minute oder so. Und dann immer ein bisschen schneller. Ich kann fast alle Bücher auf Englisch mit 730 Wörtern pro Minute hören.

Kathrin: Auch die, die du zum Spaß liest? Oder nur die für die Uni?

Kristin: Beides. Wenn du das so oft machst, hört es sich ganz normal an. Das ist mehr als doppelt so schnell wie die Lesegeschwindigkeit der meisten Leute.

Ich erzähle aus dem Gedächtnis das, was ich von Thomas Kapielski über seine Arbeit in der Filmbranche weiß. Ich kenne den Text nur von einer 25 Jahre zurückliegenden Lesung und er ist deshalb in meinem Gedächtnis an einigen Stellen verfälscht. Ich erzähle also: Videobänder mit Filmen drauf, zum Kaufen, als es so was noch gab. In Wirklichkeit, ich habe das für diesen Beitrag noch mal nachgelesen, hat Kapielski für Geld Filmrollen kontrolliert, keine Videobänder. Mitte der 1970er Jahre muss das ungefähr gewesen sein. Kapielski hat dabei die gleiche Erfahrung gemacht: Das Gehirn passt sich an die neue Geschwindigkeit an. Die ausführlichere Version der Geschichte kann man in der Open Library nachlesen (nach Anmeldung, S. 281–283), es lohnt sich, sie ist sehr lustig.

Kristin: Das Problem, seit ich angefangen habe, die Bücher schneller und schneller zu hören, sind meine Lehrer. Die sind SO langsam. Ich langweile mich jetzt, weil die Lehrer so laaaaangsam sind. Ich würde dann gern sagen: Ein bisschen schneller bitte!

Kathrin: Wie schnell ist dein YouTube eingestellt?

Kristin: Bei jedem Video anders, weil die Leute unterschiedlich schnell reden. Aber meistens: doppelte Geschwindigkeit. Es ärgert mich ein bisschen, dass es nicht noch schneller geht, weil manche Leute so langsam reden.

Kathrin: Ich habe so ein Firefox-Add-on für YouTube, mit dem geht das, glaube ich. (Stimmt: Das Add-on "Improve YouTube!" kann noch schnellere Abspielgeschwindigkeiten.) Ich lese lieber, weil ich das beim Videogucken nicht so leicht überspringen kann, wenn die Leute erst langwierig anfangen mit "Hallo, ich bin die Soundso und ich erzähle euch heute das und das ..."

Kristin: Ich überspring das alles. Ich habe dafür Tastaturshortcuts, da springe ich zehn Sekunden weiter und finde raus, ob sie da was Interessanteres sagen. Ich kann selber nicht so schnell sprechen, wie ich zuhören kann, aber wenn andere Leute sehr schnell sprechen, zum Beispiel weil sie nervös sind, dann kann ich alles immer noch sehr gut verstehen. Das geht auch mit PDFs für die Uni. Ich nehme Adobe Acrobat für die Texterkennung und dann habe ich eine App, "Natural Reader", damit kann ich mir PDFs und Websites vorlesen lassen. Das geht mit fünffacher Geschwindigkeit, aber das ist ist mir oft zu langsam, weil es das Fünffache von einer ziemlich langsamen Ausgangsgeschwindigkeit ist. Früher ging es bis zu drei Mal so schnell, dann gab es ein Update und jetzt sind es fünf Mal. So mach ich das mit allem, was ich für die Uni lesen muss, ich höre das dann beim Autofahren oder beim Abendessen. Das einzige Problem: Ich kann nichts überfliegen wie bei Lesetexten. Das geht nicht, aber wenn ich es dreimal so schnell hören kann, ist das auch nicht langsamer als Lesen mit Überfliegen. Ich habe damit angefangen, weil ich eine Lese-Rechtschreibschwäche habe. Ich finde Lesen und Schreiben auf Englisch sehr schwer und auf Deutsch noch schwerer, weil es meine zweite Sprache ist. Aber das mit den Hörbüchern geht sehr gut für mich.

(Kristin C., im Gespräch mit Kathrin Passig)

#Kristin C. #Lesegeschwindigkeit #Hörgeschwindigkeit #Bookshare #Natural Reader #Workaround #Lese-Rechtschreib-Schwäche #Kathrin Passig #Thomas Kapielski #Leseverhalten #Hörverhalten #Hörbuch #text-to-speech #Sprachsynthese #Schnelllesen #Schnellhören

[sadiegirl2021]

My favourite editing tool is a free Text to Speech Google plugin that has the voice of an English granddad. It's hilarious listening to him read the smut I write out loud. So monotone but I bet he loves it!

#Editing tools #Text to Speech is my beta reader #fanfiction #fanfiction writer #Writing tips #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #acotar fanfiction

[lollybliz]

As 24 hours comes and goes, no land in sight, a single platform drifts slowly, almost within reach.

A familiar slab of wood, one you've looked to, and at times rejected and ignored, at times grasped with all the strength in your arms.

Here it is again, in our drifting, lost without the great ship ao3.

Google docs.

#bliz rambles #ao3 #having a fucking time of it chief #and i DO have some fics downloaded; i stick them in a text to speech reader sometimes #but good god #i know the people claiming responsibility for the attack because 'ao3 is full of lgbt and degeneracy' are Probably Not It #but i still want to write the raunchiest drippiest filthiest smut i can come up with out of spite ngl

[battlekilt]

Having capitalization, punctuation, and paragraph breaks...

Is all a matter of accessibility. As I've become more and more reliant on text readers, I've realized how MUCH it is a matter of accessibility.

Readers NEED those features, especially punctuation and paragraph breaks, in order to properly READ to the user.

Capitalization is simply easier for people with other kinds of disabilities, which include ADHD.

Paragraph breaks also make it easier for neuroatypical and other disabilities to read content. LARGE blocks of text is a nightmare.

I am trying to break my lapselock habit, so I get it isn't easy.

However, it is important to the disabled that larger blocks of content is written with capitalization, punctuation, and paragraph breaks.

#disability #accessibility #screen readers #text to speech software

[hotdrinks]

Wait, aren't you Porkymuffloofah from MySpace?

SHES DEAD

[ID a gif of Nina from black swan frantically wiping off a mirror with the word "whore" written in red lipstick on it. End ID]

#drinks talk tag #ask #anon #followers the context here is that when i was in middle school i didnt know what the word muff meant NOR did i know what porky meant & yet #i changed my myspace handle to pork muff luvah because my friend -this anon- and i started saying it #while on the bus to church camp #anyway after i changed my name i went to a 4th of july party at my parents friends house that had no signal #this friend told me what i had done and i was powerless to change it for many hours #stuck labled as a porky muff luvah for all my rural town to see #im literally the most tragic and embarrassing man who exists #its spelled loofah here because thats how my friend's text to speech reader pronounced luvah #hi calbie

[longagoitwastuesday]

#Cyrano #Le Bret #Cyrano de Bergerac #Edmond Rostand #Anthony Burgess #quote #'(But this speech rendered rapidly and unrhetorically is a kind of handkerchief)' #I adore that stage direction. It is so good and so so true #The musicality of the line and how well it works with the text (with Cyrano's words) is what makes it work so well #in that textual/metatextual play. The text catches Cyrano's bluff as does Le Bret and does the reader/viewer #Cyrano hides himself in words but can't entirely hide. In the veilment he seeks in words he is revealed #Words conceal and betray him. In words he hides and words give him away #Also I say this every time but I truly adore the tears motif through the entire play. I have to make that recollection of instances one day