Voice Dream Reader (VDR) + White Noise + Bose Headphones = Comfortable Book Reading in a Noisy Environment! ☺️

Hello World! As a totally BLIND person for over four years, I’m now discovering, noise-cancelling headphones and an audiobook player have been standards among most BLIND persons for decades, yet I’m now mastering such practice! ☺️

For this blog post, I’m talking about Voice Dream Reader for Apple products. For Android devices, it’s called Legere Reader. Both, Voice Dream Reader and Legere Reader are accessible reading tools for BLIND and visually-impaired persons with reading disabilities, but can also be used by persons with cognition problems.

As I have recently discovered via Twitter, and probably in Facebook as well, many or most visually-impaired persons are using “VDR” in their postings as an abbreviation or shorthand for “Voice Dream Reader”. I’m guessing, those using Braille displays or Braille keyboards, touch-typing V D R is much faster than spelling out the three words. Also, my educated guess is, the younger generations with QWERTY keyboards will most likely type the abbreviation, instead of typing the three words; that’s my guess as a 10-finger QWERTY touch-typist from the X Generation or Generation X. ☺️

Since I reside in a peaceful home with endless animal noise pollution just 10ft from my “man cave” through my bedroom windows & air conditioner, I must use a White Noise (generator) app with my BOSE QuietComfort 35 Series II headphones with maximum world-class acoustic noise-cancelling technology, for me to COMFORTABLY enjoy reading my eBooks! ☺️ The keyword I’m using is, “comfortably”, because my optimum goal is have an enjoyable book reading hobby while physically-located in a noisy environment beyond my family’s control; I don’t even hear my wife in my room! ☺️

Yesterday, I successfully finished reading two books from Bookshre.org using Voice Dream Reader + White Noise + my BOSE QuietComfort 35 Series II headphones! The two book titles I completed, are “State of Terror” and “The Big Cheat”. ☺️

UPDATE (March 16, 2022): I now have a generic Apple Lightning adapter for my Apple iPhone 12 mini that allows me to use the audio cable from my BOSE QuietComfort 35 Series II headphones and Lightning charger cable connected at the SAME TIME, allowing me to save my Bose battery. ☺️

Thanks for reading my latest blog post! Have a Great Day!

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Happily-Married, comfortably poor, permanently disabled and totally BLIND. A Terrorism SURVIVOR that's still SURVIVING Terrorism + post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Scientist since 1977, Acoustician since 1979, Computer Scientist/Programmer since 1982, Seismologist since 1988, Criminologist (Behavioral Scientist) since 1992, and many more! Also, had worked in two civilian and one military virology labs in the USA between 1993 and 2003. A Generation X, Filipino-American US expat, living in The Philippines, whom was naturally-born in Boston, grew up mostly in Seattle, some in Chicago, and have lived in Anchorage & San Francisco. Became permanently-disabled in 2003 due to health-related illness, ending my moonlighting career as an independent private investigator in the USA. RETIRED independent developer of computing & electronics technologies after 35 wonderful years, including 20 wonderful years in GNU/Linux development & 8 wonderful years as an independent embedded systems developer of digital electronics. Former speech synthesis systems developer of 30 wonderful years, specializing in foreign language phoneme-to-speech synthesis. Also was a beta tester of third-party software-based speech synthesizers. Former FCC-licensed amateur radio operator of 20 wonderful years, beginning with 2m packet-radio & AmSat communications between Anchorage & Manila. Former member of Anchorage Amateur Radio Club and Mike & Key ARC in Seattle. Learned 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing on a manual typewriter in 1980 at a US-based elementary school. Mastered 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing without looking at the keyboard in 1986. Now have osteoarthritis in both of my hands from all that touch-typing! My primary computer programming language is C, which I learned in 1990. My secondary programming language is B.A.S.I.C., which I self-learned in 1982. Prior to my sight-loss, I used to program in LISP/CLISP and Prolog for my early development of artificial intelligence & machine learning programs. Daily, to compensate/facilitate my sight-loss, I am actively using Apple iOS VoiceOver, Google Android TalkBack and Amazon Fire OS VoiceView screen-readers, in addition to my external Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard and sometimes, my Orbit Writer Braille keyboard, as HOBBIES.

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