Hello: I have been trying to figure out how to make BibleTime work better for those of us with visual impairments, and I have found a workaround.
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Use Speech note and do the following: Go to settings in the hamburger menu (Shortcut key for this is uncertain at this time as I am new to this one). I then select English EN then Select Text-to-Speech, then pick a voice.
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Download Fast Reader from the Software store and install it. Startup Fast Reader.
3.3. With BibleTime open, copy your text by mousing over it. Not sure how to do this with the arrrow keys, because when you press the SHIFT key and the arrow keys, the text scrolls, so there must be another solution to copying and selecting text to copy rather than having to mouse over. I have been able to do this as best as possible to be able to read a desired selection of text from eithe r acommentary or devotional, then
Paste it into BOTH first Speech Note, then paste it into Fast Reader. Now right click the speech Note app window and click read all. Then immediately switch back to Fast reader. Now use your number pad 2, 5 or 8 keys, or up / down arrows to read the text, whichever you prefer. Using this along with the Zoom function of Orca, you can magnify the text and listen as Speech note reads your selection aloud to you and you can arrow through the text as you hear the text spoken.
My proposal is: use this idea in Fast Reader, as it already has a dark mode, and create a key binding for that. Attach this key binding. My proposition is Ctrl Alt R for Read Text aloud. Instead of you having to arrow through the text as the Speech note reads it to you, which admitedly is better quality, is there a way to integrate these two together to make a good reader program for those of us who would like to read the text and hear it spoken as it goes past us word by word much like in fas reader. Listening to the text and reading it will also heop us to retain what we hear better. Can someone create this program?
