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Re: What is an easy way to get Android to speak the text of this web page?

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Larry Wolff, 2025-02-17 16:37:

> On 2/17/2025 3:30 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
> 
>>> What is an easy way to get Android to speak the text of this web page?
>>>
>>> https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1956/july/japans-losing-struggle-guadalcanal
>>
>> Settings / Accessibility / Talkback
> 
> I had already tried the Android accessibility talkback before asking. 
> Once set, you hold the two volume buttons down to turn it on.
> But after that, it is so obnoxious to use, you'll turn it back off.
> You'd have to be on the verge of desperate to use it for this purpose.

Well - Talkbalk is designed for people who can *not* see the display at
all. What you call "obnoxious" is absolutely required in this case,
since people who are blind don't have any other way of navigating their
device. In fact blind users usally turn off the display completely and
only use the device using Talkbalk - there is a feature in Talkbalk for
this to help keeping your privacy as a blind person since you may not
realize, that others are whatching your smartphone while you are using it.

> Compare that to how beautifully custom-designed programs do it.

What "custom-designed program" do you refer?

> At first I tried a very nice AI program that spoke the text wonderfully.
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codespaceapps.listeningapp
> The description said nothing about only working for the first 30 minutes.

Well - this is designed for people who *can* see, but just want to have
text *also* a spoken audio output. That's a totally different use case.


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Arno Welzel
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What is an easy way to get Android to speak the text of this web page? Larry Wolff <larrywolff@larrywolff.net> - 2025-02-17 01:44 -0500
  Re: What is an easy way to get Android to speak the text of this web page? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-02-17 08:30 +0000
    Re: What is an easy way to get Android to speak the text of this web page? Larry Wolff <larrywolff@larrywolff.net> - 2025-02-17 10:37 -0500
      Re: What is an easy way to get Android to speak the text of this web page? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-17 11:13 -0600
        Re: What is an easy way to get Android to speak the text of this web page? Larry Wolff <larrywolff@larrywolff.net> - 2025-02-17 13:53 -0500
          Re: What is an easy way to get Android to speak the text of this web page? Larry Wolff <larrywolff@larrywolff.net> - 2025-02-17 14:41 -0500
      Re: What is an easy way to get Android to speak the text of this web page? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-02-17 18:10 +0000
      Re: What is an easy way to get Android to speak the text of this web page? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-02-18 12:18 +0100
        Re: What is an easy way to get Android to speak the text of this web page? Larry Wolff <larrywolff@larrywolff.net> - 2025-02-19 03:26 -0500
  Re: What is an easy way to get Android to speak the text of this web page? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-17 04:23 -0600
    Re: What is an easy way to get Android to speak the text of this web page? Larry Wolff <larrywolff@larrywolff.net> - 2025-02-17 10:55 -0500
      Re: What is an easy way to get Android to speak the text of this web page? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-02-17 11:05 -0600
  Re: What is an easy way to get Android to speak the text of this web page? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-02-18 12:21 +0100

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