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iPad Tutorial Of The Day – Making Your iPad Talk

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I am writing a great new eBook about how to get the most out of your iPad, it’s such an exciting book but I also wanted to share some excerpts with you along the way. Did you know that you can get your iPad to speak to you? It’s really simple to do and a very cool feature. The feature is called VoiceOver and if you read the tutorial below you will be able to get your iPad to speak anything on the screen to you, such as emails, text documents or even a complete iBook page.

Go To Settings

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First, you need to go into the Settings menu on your iPad.

General

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Select General in the left hand column.

Accessibility

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Select Accessibility near the bottom of the right column.

VoiceOver

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Select VoiceOver and switch it to On. You will see a warning message on the screen that says that you are changing the gestures used to control the iPad and it asks you to confirm if this is what you want to do. Just select OK to confirm this change. It is very easy to take VoiceOver off again and therefore changing the gestures back to their original default if you want to do this later on.

Words

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When typing with VoiceOver on by default it will speak every character you type. This can be changed within the Settings menu to just allow Words, Words With Characters, or Nothing.

iBooks

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Within iBooks to have a complete page read to you, you need to touch the bottom and the top of the block of text on the screen at the same time.

Single Line

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If you tap in the text with one finger, only a single line is read to you and this can be seen with a black lined border around it. If you tap anywhere within the Notes app, the complete note will be read allowed to you.

BBC News

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Whatever app you happen to be in, your iPad will now speak the text to you, as seen above.

VoiceOver Off

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To change your iPad back to the original settings, just switch the VoiceOver to Off.

By Joanne Carter

Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said.
Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London.
Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art.
Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK.
She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: joanne@theappwhisperer.com

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