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Looking for low vision & text to speech for financial and economic reports
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I am fairly new to this community, and the need for low vision accommodations, so if I miss anything please let me know.

I am specifically looking for a product and or tool that can help me digest financial documents, specifically within the context of investment disclosures such as quarterly and annual reports, as well as any financial filings.

I prefer to have as much as possible be text to speech, but would like to be able to pause playback for note taking.

I love voice dream for iOS, for day to day general content. E-ink readers are much easier on eyes, but have issues generally.

Current limitations in trying to get around.

Phonetic dictionary for proper pronunciation of financial terminology.

The complete failure of comprehension that occurs with any kind of graph, chart, or balance sheet.

The issues with pdf column flow that is typical of these documents. (Typically PDFs)

The inability to have a text to speech program integrated with an excellent pdf suite- preferably e-ink. So I can follow along on screen. Pause, bookmark, add notes, etc.

I am currently considering https://www.boox.com/maxlumi/ due to its pdf suite, note taking abilities, flexibility on custom fonts etc, and of course the large format display.

I’d love to pair this with a good text to speech program, and a financial/e economic phonetic dictionary. Either skipping (but marking where they are) any graphs, balance sheets etc. or more ideally having the text to speech program actually be able to parse that information.

I would have thought that such a suite would exist for low vision professionals working in the financial sector, and perhaps I’m just ignorant as what I need to search for.

Unfortunately voice dream is only available for iOS, and the tablet I’m considering is built on top of android.

I’m not blink but have intermittent low vision due to corneal neuralgia. If the graphic or balance sheets were able to be skipped, but marked for future review. That could work.

It basically comes down to I need to get a lot of research done daily, even in the days long stretches where I’m more or less blindfolded and in a dark room. I can take about 5-10 several times a day to look at the graphs/balance sheets etc typically but anything longer than that and it can lead to days if not weeks of stabbing eye pain, rapid fluctuations in vision and ultimately a tired brain that is mistake prone.

Any advice, resources, product recommendations etc are welcome and appreciated.

Thanks!

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