Dolphin EasyReader 4+

Name: Dolphin EasyReader
Author: Dolphin Computer Access Ltd

Dolphin Computer Access Ltd

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Please note: EasyReader App for Mac is only available to:
- Members of MTM library in Sweden
- EasyReader Premium subscribers

EasyReader offers convenient access to your favourite accessible book libraries and talking newspaper stands, in one place.
Neurodivergent readers – especially readers who have dyslexia – can customise their reading experience with dyslexia-friendly fonts, adjustable colour schemes and word highlights that synchronise with audio.
Designed for accessibility, EasyReader enables blind and partially sighted readers to read with magnified text, audio, or a combination of both - where each word is highlighted on screen as it’s read aloud. It also links to braille displays for braille readers.
EasyReader is compatible with VoiceOver and supported braille displays.

EasyReader App Features
Open a World of Accessible Books
EasyReader provides global access to millions of books from accessible book libraries around the world. Log in to your favourite library to read accessible versions of classic books, the latest bestsellers, non-fiction, school textbooks and children’s storybooks.

Customise to Read Your Way
Text magnification in EasyReader is easy to adjust. Simply pinch in and out on the screen to find the text size that’s best for you. With EasyReader the text is always sharp and visible on screen. It’s an exceptional experience for readers with visual impairments.

Read in fonts that work best for you, including dyslexia-friendly fonts. In EasyReader you can customise the colour of text, background colour and contrast. Adjust letter and line spacing to make your reading experience even better.

Audio Books & Text-to-Audio
Listen to narrated audiobooks or listen to text-only books and newspapers, which EasyReader converts to human-sounding synthesised speech. Audio perfectly synchronises with on-screen text highlights, so you can read along as you listen.

In EasyReader, you can modify pronunciation, choose the reading voices you prefer and adjust reading speed and volume.
Read a Range of Formats
EasyReader reads a wide range of book and document formats, including:

• HTML
• Text files
• DAISY 2 and DAISY 3
• Microsoft Word (DOCX only)
• PDFs (with RNIB Bookshare)
• Any text copied to clipboard

Easy to Navigate
Access your favourite libraries, then browse and download books easily, with intuitive navigation and accessible controls.
In EasyReader you can move around books quickly. Skip forward or back when reading and skip to any page or chapter.
Type keywords in the search facility to quickly find the information you need.

Add Bookmarks & Notes
To help navigate books, readers can bookmark favourite pages and sections. To aid study, readers can also add text notes.

Libraries & Talking Newspaper Services in EasyReader

Global:
• Project Gutenberg
• Bookshare

UK:
• Calibre Audio
• RNIB Bookshare
• RNIB Newsagent
• RNIB Reading Services

USA & Canada:
• Bookshare
• CELA
• NFB Newsline
• SQLA

Sweden:
• Legimus
• MTM Taltidningar
• Inläsningstjänst AB

Europe:
• Anderslezen (Belgium)
• ATZ (Germany)
• Bookshare Ireland (Ireland)
• Buchknacker (Switzerland)
• CBB (Netherlands)
• DZB Lesen (Germany)
• DZDN (Poland)
• Eole (France)
• KDD (Czech Republic)
• Libro Parlato (Italy)
• Luetus (Finland)
• NBH Hamburg (Germany)
• NCBI Overdrive (Ireland)
• NLB (Norway)
• Nota (Denmark)
• Oogvereniging (Netherlands)
• Passend Lezen (Netherlands)
• Pratsam Demo (Finland)
• SBS (Switzerland)
• UICI (Italy)
• Unitas (Switzerland)
• Vereniging Onbeperkt Lezen (Netherlands)

Rest of World:
• Blind Low Vision NZ (New Zealand)
• LKF (Russia)
• NSBS (Suriname)
• SAPIE (Japan)
• Vision Australia (Australia)

Please note
Membership is required for most accessible libraries. It’s easy to set these up on the library’s website. To help, we provide links to libraries in the EasyReader App.

2023년 10월 31일

버전 10.08

- Fix applied for sideloading certain books from Éole, France.
- Fixes for login issues with libraries: Getem, Turkey and Éole, France.
- Increased search timeout value to 30 seconds for CELA Library.
- Added two more colour settings for sentence and word highlight.
- Error messages from libraries are now displayed in a new pop up view, with additional library information.

Very awkward to use by someone who is blind and who is using voiceover on iOS

I tried using this app to read a book share a book with one of the supplied text voices. I found the interface to be very awkward using voiceover, trying to swipe left or right to go to the previous or next control off and landed me on the control which was not labeled, or which was far too easy to inadvertently change that’s losing my position within the book. Yet trying to change the voice speed was excruciatingly tedious, and using the help places you into a hierarchical system of webpages requiring you to go back and forward many times

Hi TallyChip, Many thanks for the feedback. We'd love to get some more detail from you so we can resolve the issues you mention. Or maybe you'd be willing to beta test for us? If you could email marketing@yourdolphin.com we could get someone in the US to capture your insights and make improvements for all our VoiceOver users.

Needs so much improvement especially in search

I down loaded this app to use Bookshare for my second grader. The search options are limited. I can type in a subject word or look at a list of categories but you can’t filter further. For example, if I want animal books for children I can search by age or category not both. If I choose category, There is no way of knowing book level or intended audience.

I also don’t like that I have to eye read all the titles and descriptions. An app designed for those that can’t eye read should read book titles and descriptions to the user.

The default voice is awful. I can get a new voice for $7 but I can’t hear what it sounds like before I buy it. I’m also not convinced a different voice would be better. The voice inflections are weird, accents on the wrong syllable, pauses at the wrong spots. It makes it really hard to comprehend.

Hi,
Thank you for your feedback, it is greatly appreciated.
This has been passed on to our EasyReader testing team for further investigation.

Really Great App

I love this app! My students are beginning to see its value and are now using it more! (You know how high school kids are!)

The newest version which allows you to access bookshare reading lists is now so much easier to use. If you know how to choose a voice on your iPhone/iPad - “Alison” is a good free voice to chose, you can adjust the pitch & speed so that it almost sounds like a real person. Even the “paid” voices are relatively inexpensive.

You can copy written material, say from a google doc, or from your safari reading list, and read it with this app. This is a great tool for struggling readers.

I hope that the developers will next allow us to take a picture of written material & have the app read it too. (Like another app does.)

The best thing of all is that it is FREE! My students won’t buy a reading app & the state sponsored app isn’t always available for enough students. We only get so many licenses. This allows my students to read the highlighted text, stop & start it, & bookmark text. I just love it. 10 stars!

Thank you for sharing this very exciting feedback. We're delighted to hear EasyReader is making a real difference to your students. We've taken your product improvement suggestion onboard and will continue to develop EasyReader to ensure struggling readers can succeed!