So I use Kindle assistive reader, which is basiclly a generic voice it has that reads text to you as it highlights the words in grey. My wish is to be able to use voice commands to highlight what it has just read to me, hopfully the entire scentence but even just the single word to come back to highlight properly later would be fine. I'd like to say "Highlight that" and it highlights the word so I can not spend so much time taking notes espcially since I love to listen to books as I paint which can be messy.
I can get pretty close with voice control start recording commands stop recording commands start recording command tap highlight tap add yellow but it's clunky, I need several seperate commands and I have to be looking at it for the grid number.
"show grid" + "Long press [grid number]" + "Tap highlight" + "Tap add Yellow"
Has anyone done anything similar?
These are some posts I'm looking at for direction: This topic
Last week I got the (recently updated) macOS Voice Synthesizer to read a text file of my creation. The reason I did this is that I wanted to use my own voice to control the reading of some books I own. And I wanted to say things like "Skip to next page". I think I can get this working, although the voice control part is not yet working. This sounds very similar to what you are interested in.
You linked some pages at the end of your post. So I re-read them. I am reminded that the Kindle app is extremely difficult to use due to a very poor design. You might want to try using the built-in macOS reader. With macOS, you can give commands like "Select Previous Sentence" and it will correctly highlight the last sentence. However I'm more interested in getting my own voice control working (which I mentioned in the previous paragraph) rather than getting the macOS voice control to work.
I'm still unsure why you want to highlight anything at all. Does highlighting text serve any purpose in the Kindle app, like permitting the addition of your own personal notes to the highlighted text? I think I would have to see the big picture to be able to give good advice here.
So kindle itself integrates with audiobooks in audible to read along with as it highlights which is more pleasing then a monotonous digital voice (although not all books integrate in that way but many do).
I make highlights so I can distill the parts of the books I find most noteworthy, I then revisit them when making my own personal notes later but I take my notes in apple notes so I can quick search them.
The highlight command is to not break the flow of listening because highlighting manually can stop the flow and I would be able to read more if I was doing other things like painting while playing a book.
Oh, so do you mean "highlighting" is a permanent thing? That's not what highlighting normally means in macOS. This is why I need to actually see what you're doing. I don't have those apps so I don't know what you mean unless I get a lot of details.
Okay. Since I don't have the app, I'm going to have to find a video online to see what that is. But since the app is so poorly written, I likely won't be able to do anything, unless you want to switch to a different app.
I think you are referring to my first post, where I described an app I wrote last week that "reads aloud" a text file, (using a new voice synthesizer quietly released by Apple) and which I plan to upgrade using voice control to allow the user to control the reading process.
Well, that's what it does. That's the full description. I'm not sure what your question means. The voice control part isn't working yet. If I finish this project, I might upload it on this site.
it might not be practical to switch now