In fact you will find this choppy behavior if you crank the speech up to about 90% or so. I think I had to back the speech rate down to about 85% to ensure nothing was cutoff. On May 9, 2010, at 1:26 AM, Dan Eickmeier wrote:
> That thing with the speech cutting off,and being choppy at faster rates, > happens on my iPod touch I have here, if I speed it up enough. For example, > it'll say serc, instead of search, and things like that. > On May 8, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Bryan Smart wrote: > >> OK, those of you with iPads, check this out. >> >> I've noticed how swiping just doesn't work sometimes on my iPad. I thought, >> hey, maybe it's me. It wasn't like this on my iPhone, though. I thought, >> maybe the screen is just not as good. Turns out, though, VoiceOver just >> isn't as good. I finally have a way to consistently show this crud. Wish >> that I could come up with good repros for the other problems, though. >> >> Anyway, here is a good example of swiping not working. >> >> Go in to settings. Double-tap Wi-Fi. >> >> Now, on the right side, double-tap the on/off switch on the right side of >> the screen. >> >> Now, try just once to swipe. Nothing will happen. If you try again, you'll >> be swiping just fine. Return to the switch, though. >> >> Double-tap to toggle it. Swipe once. Nothing will happen. >> >> Double-tap to toggle it again. Swipe once, again. Nothing will happen. >> >> The thing is, each time you toggle any switch, not just this once, swiping >> doesn't work the first time that you try. Not only with switches, this >> happens with radio button type controls where you select one in a group. >> >> Exploring further, I discovered that, for most things you do, the first >> attempt to swipe doesn't work. In Safari, when a new page loads, the first >> time I swipe never results in focus moving. In settings, when I double-tap a >> button on the left to show another category of settings, the first swipe >> never moves the focus. This isn't the case in absolutely every place on the >> iPad (the home screen isn't like this), but it is very prevalent, and I can >> make it happen over and over again. I'm only mentioning these apps because >> these are the ones that everyone else has to try the repro. >> >> Between this, and the deal with the screen not refreshing to VoiceOver, I'm >> starting to understand why it seemed like the interface wasn't responding >> like I'm used to with the iPhone and the MBP track pad. I feel like I'm >> fumbling a lot trying to get things to work, rather than being able to >> follow consistent patterns to get to where I want to be. Now that I know >> what's happening, I should have better luck, I guess. Like, every time I >> press a button, I have to make a fake swipe before I start to swipe for real. >> >> Today, while reading a web page, I also had the speech totally die. I would >> still hear the VoiceOver navigation sounds as I moved around, but no speech. >> Fortunately, I can always use the triple-tap home key approach to cycle >> VoiceOver off and on, but, as I was doing so, I couldn't help thinking of >> how constantly having to reload a screen reader is supposed to be par for >> the course in the Windows world. I couldn't help but angrily think how it >> seems that Apple has finally brought that feature to the iPad, also. I >> suppose it's to their credit that I don't expect this on OSX and the iPhone, >> but I really like not having an unstable screen reader. I can't say that >> I've never had to toggle VO on OSX, but that is pretty rare. I've had to do >> that quite a little bit on the iPad to work out various problems. The >> speech, in general, seems like its been tweaked for the iPad. Maybe that's >> why it chops off the ends of some words when running at full speed. >> >> Oh, and don't forget the bug with the speaker constantly running, draining >> your battery while you sleep. >> >> What's the deal? Was this thing rushed? Is the iPad running some hacked >> intermediate version of VoiceOver? As I said in my other thread, I've >> already setup a return for the iPad. I'll be sending it back on Tuesday. We >> barely have 14 days to kick the tires on it before the return period is up. >> I'm not really happy about how things have gone so far. >> >> I'm also really surprised that, so far, I seem to be the only one that has >> found iPad VO bugs. These haven't been hard to find. Maybe others have, and >> just haven't said so, or I haven't noticed their reports. Still, I've had >> mine for just over a week. Other people have had the iPad for a month. >> Blindness orgs have reviewed it. Has just no one else noticed any of these? >> Maybe, like me, you just feel that the user interface doesn't respond >> correctly, and don't know why/can't give a repro. >> >> Supposedly, the only updates that will be available are new OS versions. The >> next one is supposed to come out in the fall. Thought the first one will be >> free, versions after that will cost. >> Bryan >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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