Instructions, read out over the phone
Tell Me WhenThey can't see your page. Give it to them one small part at a time.
Paste the steps you have to read to someone who is doing the job while you talk. The page shows what would trip the ear; the talk-through turns it into short parts, each ending in a check-in you wait on.
a step, sized by how long it takes to say trips the ear (one loop per kind) points at a picture a spoken part with its check-in
1 The instructions free
Two to twenty steps. You can drop a .txt file onto the box. Nothing is kept unless you press save.
2 What trips the ear free
3 The talk-through metered
One run writes what to do before you call, what to have ready, an opening line, short parts that each end in a check-in, a break if it needs two calls, a closing question and a tip. It never changes the page's verdict, and the page checks every part against your steps.
Pricing as soon as the session is ready...
Sign inThe reply could not be read as a talk-through. Here it is as it came back:
The page's check
4 Saved talk-throughs
How the page reads it
Someone listening on a phone cannot look back up the page, cannot see a diagram and can only hold one small thing at a time. So the page splits your text into written steps and marks, for each one, what the ear trips on: a picture they cannot see ("as shown", "figure 2", "the diagram"), numbers and codes (three digits or more, or digits stuck to letters or symbols - 125g, W-101, 1/4), symbols (&, +, /, %), abbreviations (tsp, approx, mins, capitals), an aside in brackets, a long sentence (over 22 words) and several actions at once (two or more of "and", "then", "after that" or a semicolon).
The verdict, checked in this order: a step points at a picture - send a picture first; else 13 steps or more - two calls, with the break after the middle step; else a third or more of the steps trip the ear - slow it down; else read it out. Speaking time uses the pace you pick and does not count the time the job itself takes.
A reading aid, not professional advice. For anything with mains electricity, gas, medicine, sharp blades, heat or ladders, follow the maker's own instructions and stop if anything seems wrong.