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Hello and welcome to this Tips and Tricks video for ZoomReader.
In today’s video we’re going to show you how using voice recognition can make taking
pictures with ZoomReader on the iPad much easier.
Now that we’ve added support for the iPad with Retina Display, you might be thinking
great, this will be even easier since it’s larger than the iPhone. Unfortunately the
iPad is more susceptible to blurry pictures if you’re not EXTREMELY steady, which means
poor OCR results. Since its so big, you’ll need both hands to hold the iPad in order
to take good pictures. Only problem here is that now it becomes difficult to tap the take
picture button! Luckily this can be easily avoided by using
the handy speech recognition features in ZoomReader. To turn on speech recognition, tap the gear
icon in the upper left to open the Settings screen. Under the General heading, tap the
On / Off button next to Voice Recognition, then tap the Done button.
Now I can talk to ZoomReader to both capture an image and also to begin reading. Once I’ve
got my iPad lined up, I’m going to say “Take Picture”. The word “Processing” will
appear on screen letting me know that ZoomReader heard me. and then shortly after that you’ll
hear the camera shutter sound and see the word “Capturing” on screen. Next you will
see a preview of the picture you took, and instead of trying to find the Read button,
simply say “Read” for ZoomReader to process the image for actual text. Finally we’ll
be presented with our accurate OCR results; say “Read” a 2nd time and ZoomReader will
begin reading the text.
(ZoomReader speaking): "ZoomText 10 is a powerful computer access solution designed for the
visually impaired."
You can see that this will make it much easier to take pictures with ZoomReader on the iPad.
Thanks for watching, and be sure to check our blog for more tips and tricks videos in
the future!