However I show in my first Podcast this can easily be changed to a Sapi 5 voice to make the app sound far more friendly. The main obstacle people tend to have is that the app is self voicing and uses eSpeak as the default voice on install.
This is why I have been doing the Podcast series over the last few months demonstrating the capabilities of the app.
It is very full featured I am constantly astonished at how little attention it has garnered over the few years. If you are in the UK it also integrates directly into the RNIB Newsagent service for downloading Newspaper and Magazines, again via an optional additional app Plugin downloadable within the app itself.Īs well as Tunein Radio there is a specialist optional VI Radio app and also in one of my Podcasts I show how the Other Media app can also be used as a third Internet Radio app using a downloadable Internet Radio folder playlist structure. It also has a CD app for playing Audio and Daisy Audio CDs and also includes a full featured Music player. It is my preferred Audio Daisy Book reader more than FS Reader but it does not support text based xml formats. The Suite also has what is, as far as I am concerned by a country mile the best featured ePub Book reader, far more featured than QRead, an Audio / Daisy Book app which again I think is the best featured audio book player. Podcasts can be bookmarked and there is an auto resume feature which will always take you back to the place you left off listening to a Podcast after you have shut down and re-started the program.
There is also an optional VI Podcast app plugin which you can download and install from within the program which provides a categorised array of pre-selected specialist community and commercial Podcasts targeted at Visually Impaired users.
Of course you can also import and export OPML file of podcast or individual Podcast feeds from the web. It also has categories from for example 50 most popular Podcasts etc. It is effectively a BBC Sounds app for example with Podcasts from all the BBC Stations. However in addition you can also browse a library for suggested other Podcasts.The Main Podcast app – here you can search for Podcast in the normal way as in QCast.As well as streaming from Tunein you can download all downloadable content as well. Tunein Radio – if you have a free or paid Tunein account you can search all the Podcasts and downloadable Radio Shows within Tunein.It actually has 3 Podcasts apps within it application. This should be ready in the next day or so. I confess an interest as I am nearing the end of making a Podcast series on Speak On – ironically I was recording the first part of the 9 th Podcast on the range of features in Speak On today actually focussing on the app’s abilities as a Podcast Reader.
It has certainly been fuller featured than QCast for years. I think the best Podcast App for Windows is Speak On Media Suite.