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TelepaText is built for macOS, iPad and iPhone

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TelepaText
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Features

Complete Features of TelepaText

TelepaText provides essential text document editing, with extensive actions for text, research, speaking, sharing and viewing, built for iPad, iPhone, macOS and iCloud. Text-to-speech, dictation, speech commands and speech feedback are featured in TelepaText. Documents are automatically synced between your devices with iCloud. A common display style and command interface is provided on both platforms for best productivity.

Main Features

Easy actions for Find and Replace, Wikipedia, Share, Web Search, Map Search, Open URL, Mail selection or document, Twitter, Speak, Document Info, Sort Lines, Markdown, Word Types, Word Usage, Evaluate Expression, Move To Folder, Smooth Scroll, Select Font.
Share action includes activities such as Message, Mail, Twitter, Facebook, Sina Weibo, Pinterest, Google+, etc.
Actions toolbar provides quick access to common actions, also available in menus with unified keyboard shortcuts.
Many actions are unified on both platforms, with the same keyboard shortcuts.
Data detectors automatically find and highlight web links, dates, addresses, and phone numbers; simply tap for related actions.
Extra punctuation keys on the optional TelepaText keyboard accessory, extensive settings, and modern navigation.
Print options on iPhone and iPad include scaling options for font size.
Markdown support includes viewing as Markdown, Copy Markdown as HTML, and Copy Markdown as HTML Page.
File Actions and iCloud file browser including filename, date, size, label color, and sorting.
Use iCloud file system and/or device local files on macOS and iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Text-to-speech features

Use text-to-speech for reading of documents, with automatic visual tracking as sentences or paragraphs are spoken.
Text-to-speech is smoothly integrated with editing so the position in the document is maintained.
Control and navigate text-to-speech using earphone remote control buttons on iPhone, iPad or macOS. TelepaText supports Play, Pause, Next Sentence, and Previous Paragraph functions for text-to-speech.
The Play / Pause, Previous Track and Next Track function keys on the macOS keyboard are also supported for text-to-speech control.
This remote control innovation lets one navigate a text document the remote control and text-to-speech, leaving one's eyes free for other tasks.
Use Dictation support (speech-to-text) to add text to documents, and to control TelepaText with Speech Commands.

Speech commands

Speech Commands (an In-App Purchase) provide powerful ways to control the app with your voice on macOS and iPhone. Use speech commands to select text, open documents, get info about documents, rename documents, evaluate expressions, change settings, send tweets, insert a contact's address, phone, or email, insert the date or time, and many more actions.
The iPhone/iPad version of Speech Commands provide a additional range of search commands targeting various web search engines.
Speech Commands are a powerful Siri-like TelepaText-based extension to speech control functionality.
Speech Commands Reference view displays the complete phrase structure for speech commands, indicating vocabulary and variations in the basic grammar.
Configure the Speak action (text-to-speech) in Settings to the desired speaking rate, pitch, and paragraph / sentence pause intervals.
Speech Commands are an In-App Purchase, and require the Dictation capability on your iOS device.
Note: There are differences in the Speech Command sets and functionality between macOS and iPhone.

More features

Document Info action displays date created, date modified, paragraph, line and character counts for both the entire document and the current selection.
Sort Lines action sorts the lines of the selected text or the entire document alphabetically.
Evaluate action evaluates mathematical expressions such as (29.95+39.95)*3.0.
Choose font from common fonts, or any font available on the system.
Dark Style and Light Style, with a paper texture or plain black or white backgrounds.
Enjoy your beautiful desktop image through your document editing on macOS with Window Transparency and Auto-Hide Menu Bar controls.
Unified interface for iCloud file system navigation on both platforms.
The Settings view lets users customize a wide range of app behaviors.

Where to find Actions on iPad, iPhone and macOS:

On iPad, Actions are chosen from icon buttons at the top, right to left.
On iPhone, the Menu button at top-right of document editing view opens the Actions view. Action buttons are also in the bottom toolbar.
On macOS, main actions are in the Edit menu and in the optional toolbar of the editing windows.
Keyboard shortcuts for actions are the same on both iOS with hardware keyboard and macOS, which makes it easier to shift between devices. See Keyboard shortcuts for TelepaText.
Actions are performed on the selected text. Some actions can use the entire document, such as Mail.
Rename a document by tapping it's title in the editing view.
iCloud support is available on Yosemite macOS 10.10 and iOS 8 and later.

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Complete details

Two straight-forward text editing apps: supporting both macOS, and iPad and iPhone
Document Info action displays date created, date modified, paragraph, line and character counts for both the entire document and the current selection.

iCloud text editing

TelepaText supports plain-text document editing.
Dictation (speech-to-text) supported on Siri-capable iPhone and iPad and on macOS.
To select an entire paragraph on iPad or iPhone, do a two finger tap.
Add text on iPhone or iPad and it appears on the Mac, and vice versa.
iOS and macOS changes autosaved? Yes!
Are offline iOS and macOS changes synced? Yes.
Conflict resolution on macOS is automatic.

Keyboard shortcuts for text editing are the same on both iOS with hardware keyboard and macOS, which makes it easier to shift between devices. On iPad and iPhone, Keyboard Shortcuts are only available if you are using an external Bluetooth keyboard.

See Keyboard shortcuts for TelepaText.

iOS App Actions

Change the font size with a two-finger pinch or spread touch gesture.
Tap with two fingers to select a text paragraph.
Choose actions on selected text or the entire document from the edit menu or from the Actions button.
Open a selected text URL into Safari.
Use selected text word or phrase for a web search (Google) in Safari.
Tweet selected text via the Twitter service.
E-mail selected text or entire document in Mail.
Rename the current document by tapping the document name in the top of the editing view.
Standard printing support, with customizable font size taken from the current document view.
Add or remove words to the spelling dictionary with Learn Word and Unlearn Word in the edit menu.
If iCloud is not used, you can still create documents and one level of folders locally on your iOS device.

Document Listing Actions on iOS and macOS

One level of folders is supported. The root directory is Documents, and folders can be created in Documents only.
To return to the root Documents folder, tap Return to Documents.
To enter a folder, tap the folder in the document listing.

Document Listing Actions on iOS

The menu button in the Documents view provides several actions: New in iCloud, New in local, New Folder, View by Name, View by Date (Modified or Created), View by Size, Refresh Folder, and others.
Choose View by Name for an alphabetical document listing.
Choose View by Date (Modified or Created) to see a date sorted document listing, with the most recent at the top.
If you don't see your iCloud documents, you might need to choose Refresh Folder.
To delete a document, swipe left in the document listing and confirm the delete.
To delete multiple documents in the document listing, tap the Edit button.
To create a new document in iCloud storage or locally on the device, tap the menu button and tap New Document.

TelepaText Features on macOS

iCloud file browser unified in design with iPhone / iPad version. View by Name, View by Name, Date (Modified Created, or Opened), View by Size, View by Label.
Window transparency and light and dark styles integrate your writing experience aesthetically with your desktop photos. The Dark Style is great for reading and editing in dark environments.
TelepaText supports a clean interface for plain text editing.
Use macOS app to modify cloud based text file.
Standard printing support, with customizable font and size taken from the view document.
Supports Find and Replace on macOS.
Supports standard Font panel on macOS.
Supports keyboard shortcuts for changing text size: Command + and Command - .
Take the top document in and out of Full Screen editing mode, with a page-sized editing area, with Command-Shift-F.
Speak the document or selected text with the keyboard shortcut Command Shift K. Stop speech with Command K.
Unique subtle background color for editing windows to help distinguish them from other Mac apps.
TelepaText displays a similar iCloud documents browsing interface on both macOS laptops and desktops as well as on iOS iPhone, iPad and iPad touch, which helps you keep your mental image of folder organization and context on all of your devices.
TelepaText uses normal macOS windows with full screen capability, moving and resizing, manual and automatic tiling.
Choose Lock, Duplicate, Revert to Last Saved Version and Browse All Versions commands from the document title bar on macOS 10.7.
macOS provides the contextual menu (Right-click or Control-click) to operate on selected text, including Open URL, Search with Google, Tweet, Share via E-mail, Message, Twitter, Facebook.
Useful keyboard shortcuts for Full Screen mode and Text-to-Speech.

TelepaText Features on macOS

Drag and drop support in TelepaText for moving documents in and out of iCloud storage. Choose the Open panel from the File menu and choose iCloud at the top of the panel. Then drag text documents from the Mac desktop or folders to the Open panel, or drag text documents from the Open panel out to the Mac desktop or desired folder.

Plain text editing supports files such as txt, text, html, htm, m, h, mm, js, pch, strings, c, cp, cpp, pl, p, markdown, md, mkdn, php, py, pyw, pyc, pyo, pyd, rb, rbw, xml, xslt, xsl, csv, tsv, odt, xht, xhtml, sql, java, class, dtd

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See the video How to do web searches with Speech Commands in TelepaText for an introduction to the TelepaText Speech Commands feature.

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