Re: speech suddenly softening

2024-04-22 Thread Alvin Ng 
For me, muting VO and unmuting will do the trick On 22 Apr 2024, at 9:33 AM, Jeff Samco  wrote:I have noticed the volume decrease issue for a few weeks now. It periodically happens when listening to podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. The simplest way I have found to get the volume back up is to pause the audio with a 2-finger double tap, press either volume button once, and restart the audio.  HTH,Jeff From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Penny ReederSent: Sunday, April 21, 2024 5:11 PMTo: viphone@googlegroups.comSubject: Re: speech suddenly softening This decrease and then increase in volume happened to me last night. I was reading a book from NLS on my phone and, at first, I thought the fluctuation in volume might be related to how the book had been recorded, but it continued to happen when I was visiting Facebook and when I was reading e-mail. I rebooted the phone, but it made no difference. Since this morning, however, it hasn't happened any more. A few days ago, we had a power failure. The Iphone was plugged in at the time, charging, and as soon as the power failed, it became almost impossible to use VoiceOver -- speech would stop almost immediately whenever I tried to do anything on the phone. I tried using BlueTooth BEATS earbuds, and that did not help either. Eventually, when I  began using my MFI hearing aid (which I hadn't been using when the power went off), VoiceOver would work without stopping. I don't know what caused either of these situations, but, knocking on wood, I'm happy that everything seems to be working right now!Penny  On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 3:09 AM CJ & AA MAY  wrote:I think I saw that someone else was also experiencing this problem. Every now and then the speech suddenly softens and I need to turn up the volume. Then, without any apparent reason, the volume returns and I need to turn it down. It isn’t just Voiceover as I am using Duo Lingo and even the speech on that app softens.Alison  From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Barbara StahlSent: Saturday, April 20, 2024 8:07 PMTo: viphone@googlegroups.comSubject: Re: High speed voiceover Have you tried turning voiceover off and then back on again? You can just tell siri  to turn off voiceover then wait a minute or so then tell siri to turn it back on again. Also try turning off the phone and turning it back on again.  Virus-free.www.avast.com On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 12:31 PM Joseph hudson  wrote:Navigate to speaking rate and then adjust it that way.> On Apr 20, 2024, at 9:27 AM, 'mike' via VIPhone  wrote:> > Hello Everyone> > > After a recent upgrade to the ios, voiceover is now talking at a speed I just ca't understand.  I have change the percentage via settings but it doesn't make any difference.  What is the best way to reduce thhe speed of voiceover?> > > With thanks> > > Mike.> > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.> > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.> > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor.  Mark can be reached at:  mk...@ucla.edu.  Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com> > The archives for this list can be searched at:> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group.> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/8b37c2fb-a80a-6eb4-e881-11b6216dcf78%40runbox.com.-- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor.  Mark can be reached at:  mk...@ucla.edu.  Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.comThe archives for this list can be searched at:http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/--- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group.To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/CH3PR05MB95564BB6F762EB06E8F3F641CE0C2%40CH3PR05MB9556.namprd05.prod.outlook.com.-- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact

Just the accessibility settings

2024-02-15 Thread Alvin Ng 
Very often we have to reset all settings in order to tackle the problem we are 
facing on the phone. It is very tedious. In fact, most of the time the problems 
are related to the accessibility settings. Should Apple provide an option for 
us to just reset the accessibility setting? What do you think?

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How to stop VO from saying toolbar

2022-03-28 Thread Alvin Ng 
I just reset all settings on my iPhone. I have forgotten what setting to look 
for to stop VO from saying toolbar. Please help.

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Re: the power of Voiceover dictionary

2022-01-02 Thread Alvin Ng 
When you replace the three words status bar  item with a space, what happened 
to this three words when they are mentioned in any article. Will voice over 
still read them?

On 3 Jan 2022, at 04:53, Dennis Long  wrote:


Here are those instructions again.  I even included how my status bar now reads.
NOTE TURN OFF ALL APPS SET it TO HOME SCREEN FOR ALL OF THEM
Now follow the below instructions.
1 go to settings double tap.
2 accessibility double tap.
3 go to voice over on double tap.
4 speech double tap.
5 pronunciations  double tap.
6 tap add or add new not sure what it says.
Then follow the instructions below
On the Status bar it says cellular 4 of 4 bars signal strength I wanted to 
change this so I did this:
Put in  in the phrase box
 
of 4 bars, signal strength
Substitution
Bars
I also didn’t want Status bar item spoken so I did this
In the phrase box I put
Status bar item
 substitution just put in a space.
Not charging substitute put a space.
Battery power
Substitution battery
Now when swiping my status bar reads like this.
Visible
Cellular 3 bars
LTE
74% battery
 
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Re: Looking for an hourly chime app

2021-10-29 Thread Alvin Ng 
Diii notify

https://apps.apple.com/sg/app/diii-notify-hourly-chime/id1001398032

On 29 Oct 2021, at 22:01, 'Kimberly Samco' via VIPhone 
 wrote:

Hello,

Since the most recent IOS my hourly chime stopped working.  I’ve looked at 
several apps in the App Store but they are more cumbersome than I need.  I’m 
looking for an app that will play a sound on the hour every day but not in the 
middle of the night.  The chime I used had the ability for me to choose the 
hours I did not want it to chime.


As always, thank you!


Kim

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Re: Looks like some talking clocks no longer work in iOS 15

2021-09-23 Thread Alvin Ng 
Richard, in your voice clock app, check if the display notification in the 
setting is turn on.

On 24 Sep 2021, at 00:21, Richard Turner  wrote:


Someone recommended Voice Clock, but I cannot get it to work for me.
If anyone can figure out how to contact the Chime developer, it would be great 
if they would update their app, and even charge something for that update.
 
 
 
 
Richard
“Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.” – 
Jane Wagner
 
My Web site: https://www.turner42.com
 
 
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Dan Yates
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 9:09 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Looks like some talking clocks no longer work in iOS 15
 
Oh man, I had gotten very accustomed to using Chime and it was fantastic. Sure 
hope it can be updated or something else can be recommended by someone on this 
list.
Dan

Sent from my iPhone


On Sep 22, 2021, at 11:22 AM, Malcolm Parfitt  wrote:

If you want an app that will announce the time at certain intervals then take 
a look at:
 
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/voice-over-clock/id594106139
 
You can select the interval in which you want announcement and the voice the 
app uses.  This app works with iOS15 talks when the app is quit from the App 
Switcher and when the device is locked.
 
If you want the announcement and you have an Apple Watch then turn 
notifications off in the Watch App for VoiceClock.

Malcolm Parfitt


On 22 Sep 2021, at 16:07, Richard Turner  wrote:


I suspect if whatever app one tries, if it isn’t updated for iOS 15, it 
probably won’t work.
 
I’ll do some playing around.
 
 
 
 
Richard
“Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.” – 
Jane Wagner
 
My Web site: https://www.turner42.com
 
 
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
rick.alf...@gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 8:00 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Looks like some talking clocks no longer work in iOS 15
 
Richard, I couldn’t find a way either. It looks like the last update was 6 
years ago so hopefully we can find a good replacement.
 
 
 
 
 
Warmest regards
 
Rick Alfaro
 
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 10:54 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Looks like some talking clocks no longer work in iOS 15
 
Rick,
I couldn’t find a way to write the Chime developer.
If you can, let us know.
That was probably the best for doing what you want and I know others who will 
be very sad when they update and find it no longer works.
 
 
 
 
Richard
“Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.” – 
Jane Wagner
 
My Web site: https://www.turner42.com
 
 
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
rick.alf...@gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 7:52 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Looks like some talking clocks no longer work in iOS 15
 
I’m having the same issue here. One app that I’ve used for a long time now 
called Chime no longer speaks the time in IOS 15. I had it set to use a very 
human sounding female voice which was great.
 
If anyone knows of a good talking time app that uses a really good voice to 
speak at preset interval’s, please let me know. Thanks.
 
 
 
Warmest regards
 
Rick Alfaro
 
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Kevin 
Minor
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 2:23 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Looks like some talking clocks no longer work in iOS 15
 
Hi.
 
I read in another message that someone no longer got the time automatically 
spoken with a talking clock in iOS 15. I’m also having this happen with 
Speaking Clock. Not sure what’s up.
 
Just letting people know.
 
Kevin, Valerie and Jilly
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Re: Dropped calls in iOS 14

2021-07-25 Thread Alvin Ng 



If you have turn on Wi-Fi calling, try turning it off. I did that and no more 
call dropping. On 26 Jul 2021, at 02:21, Duane Steele  
wrote:

Hello Listers,

First, thanks again for all the help with direct touch. I may have mentioned 
that I kept putting off updating to the iOS 14 platform. Today, my call to my 
son kept getting dropped and my phone went back to the home screen. That has 
never happened before. Is there some iOS 14 setting that will prevent this from 
reoccuring? Thanks in advance.


Peace & Blessings,
Pastor Duane L. Steele
Phone (276) 730-5194

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Re: Toolbar?

2020-09-21 Thread Alvin Ng 
But when you turn off the container descriptions, you will not know which 
message you are in using the treaded mails. Besides, VO will not announce who 
the sender is.



On 21 Sep 2020, at 9:03 AM, Michael Jones  wrote:

Hi,

Take a look at the verbosity settings for Voiceover.  I set the "container 
descriptions" to "do nothing" and I am not getting a lot of the extra speech.

Michael





> On Sep 20, 2020, at 19:23, Kimber Gardner  wrote:
> 
> Yeah, that toolbar announcement bugs the crap out of me just like the
> thing saying "conversations" at the top of the messages app.
> 
> Kim
> 
> On 9/20/20, Cristóbal Muñoz  wrote:
>> Yup. I wrote Apple accessibility as well. Don’t' know if it's a bug or well
>> intentioned effort to provide more description/information, but it's one of
>> those cases where more isn't better.
>> I asked if it isn't in fact a bug, that if they could at the very least
>> include this behavior only when hints are turned on to give us more
>> experienced iOS users more options on what's spoken.
>> Same goes for the mail app. Now, when you're focused on a folder, VO says no
>> unread mail. I mean., you intuitively understand if VO doesn’t' read X
>> unread messages, there are no unread emails in that folder or inbox. Just
>> more superfluous chatter we have to sift through every single time. Again,
>> probably mor appropriate for when hints are turned on.
>> 
>> 
>> Cristóbal
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of
>> Sieghard Weitzel
>> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2020 12:27 PM
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: RE: Toolbar?
>> 
>> I very much agree here, always thought how nice it would be to be able to
>> turn off how Voiceover says "Dock" whenever I touch one of the apps there.
>> After all, it doesn't say "Home screen 1" if I touch an app on my first home
>> screen and I think Apple really needs to tie such redundant announcements to
>> Voiceover Hints or to entirely allow them to be turned on or off just how
>> you can really customize what information Jaws speaks. Any half way
>> competent iPhone user doesn't need to hear "Dock" or "Toolbar" or "tab bar"
>> spoken. Yes, you get used to it, but it's still annoying and hopefully a
>> number of people will write to Apple Accessibility requesting this. This is
>> definitely one I will point out especially now that they are expanding such
>> extra announcements.
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Mary
>> Otten
>> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2020 11:58 AM
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: Toolbar?
>> 
>> It would be nice to be able to turn these announcements off. I mean really,
>> toolbar? But it’s been there all through the beta cycle, so I’m sure it’s
>> deliberate. More unnecessary verbosity. Please let us turn all this junk
>> off.
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Sep 20, 2020, at 11:52 AM, Richard Turner 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> That would be considered a feature by Apple, just like the Dock saying
>>> the Dock when you touch the apps at the bottom of your screen.
>>> Apparently, we are supposed to know we are in the Toolbar, or Dock, as if
>>> one couldn't figure that out because it is the last line of the screen.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Richard
>>> "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass
>>> himself,” and we forget that only grace can break the cycle of ancient
>>> hatreds among peoples. (It is notable that while I have regretted not
>>> granting grace to others, I’ve never once regretted extending it.)" -
>>> Edward Herbert
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of
>>> Gerardo Corripio
>>> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2020 10:39 AM
>>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>>> Subject: Toolbar?
>>> 
>>> I’m curious if when we touch, for example within the Mail app, near the
>>> dock where you have the ToolBar to delete, More Options, and others, is it
>>> an iOS14 bug that it says ToolBar, or is it someting that should be there?
>>> Of course it doesn’t bother me, but I’m curious.
>>> 
>>> Gera
>>> Enviado desde mi iPhone SE (2nd Generation) de Telcel
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How to change the Apple ID of a purchased app

2020-09-19 Thread Alvin Ng 
Hi,
A few years ago, my friend purchased a free app on my iPhone using his Apple 
ID. Each time I change the phone or do a reset, I need to input the password of 
his Apple ID In order to redownload the app. Is it possible for me to change 
the Apple ID to mine?

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Re: apps for streaming entire audio folders from Dropbox

2020-01-16 Thread Alvin Ng 
Ever music and its free.

> On 16 Jan 2020, at 3:15 PM, Kwork  wrote:
> 

I know Dropbox files can be played using iOS, but not more than one in a row 
without activating each one individually.

Are there any apps that will connect to Dropbox, and that will let you stream 
full folders at a time, and even create playlists from those streams? Thanks so 
much.

Travis

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Re: Another Weird Pronunciation Issue

2019-11-25 Thread Alvin Ng 
Try read continuously the following text with us siri male and samantha voice.

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> On 26 Nov 2019, at 6:13 AM, Richard Turner  
> wrote:
> 

 I've not ever heard the issue with defeat with any voice, until I read back 
that sentence with Tom Enhanced. If you read the word by itself, it pronounces 
it correctly, but in a sentence it said defeeturing. Very stupid.
 GPS seems to be a new thing with various voices so I think it came with iOS 13.
You can go into the VoiceOver Speech, Pronunciations and add it in with the 
substitution G P S, and make sure it is set to all voices.
That fixed it for me; but it shouldn't have said it that way to begin with of 
course.




Richard
"Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it." 
-- from The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, by Jane Wagner


>> On Nov 25, 2019, at 1:54 PM, "englishride...@gmail.com" 
>>  wrote:
>> 
> 
> To add to this interesting discussion, I've found that for quite a while now, 
> Compact Samantha pronounces the word defeat as defeeturing. Of course, it 
> didn't do it in this email--go figure.
> 
> She's also saying GPS as geepees, which is quite annoying.
> 
> Also, Siri British English (when using Siri--I haven't tested this with VO 
> and the British female Siri voice) says PVTA as an actual word, rather than 
> just the letters P V T A. That stands for Pioneer Valley Transit Authority, 
> which is the name of the company that handles public transportation in my 
> area.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ari
> 
>> On Nov 10, 2019, at 7:03 PM, Richard Turner  
>> wrote:
>> 
>>  Well Kelby,
>> No your email where you used the em dash did not speak it as to the power of.
>> I suspect we are dealing with a contextual issue.
>> When you run across it in a book again, I'd be interested to know where in 
>> which book.
>> I'm fairly sure we are dealing with an overall change from Apple/Nuance.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Richard
>> "Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it." 
>> -- from The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, by Jane 
>> Wagner
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 10, 2019, at 3:52 PM, kelby carlson  wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Strange that I'm not hearing it other places—I know articles I read contain 
>>> em dashes. So does this email, in fact, and know "to the power of" there.
>>> 
 On Nov 10, 2019, at 5:38 PM, Richard Turner  
 wrote:
 
 
 Good fine Alan.
 That means it is not a Voice Dream Reader issue.
 I just checked and yes any superscript number is read as to the power of.
 I suspect in books where that is used, or the m-dash, iOS 13 is 
 pronouncing them differently.
 
  
 I switched to the British Siri Male voice on the language rotor and it did 
 not say to the power of on the memory numbers on the Apple Store.
 Also, when I switch to the Irish Siri voice even though the language is US 
 English, no to the power of.
 So, it is only with US voices.
 I'm going to send this to Winston with Voice Dream as well.
 
 Richard
 "Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with 
 it." 
 -- from The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, by Jane 
 Wagner
 
 
> On Nov 10, 2019, at 1:46 PM, Alan Lemly  wrote:
> 
> 
> Kelby and Richard,
>  
> I was just on the Apple Store app checking out prices and other specs on 
> an iPhone XR and thought I had found another occurrence of the "to the 
> power of" pronunciation. It was on the 64GB and 128GB capacities of the 
> phone. However, when I placed the rotor in characters mode, I learned the 
> capacities each had a superscript 1 next to them so I guess that 
> pronunciation was appropriate. I would have preferred superscript 1 but 
> to the power

Re: Envision AI

2017-11-30 Thread Alvin Ng 
How about chinese?

On 1 Dec 2017, at 5:18 AM, Karthik Kannan  wrote:

Hey Anthony, 

Not forgetting Italian. Haha. We're adding support for German, Spanish, Italian 
and French with this release. We already fully support Dutch. 

And our document text mode can already read Italian text in the Italian 
dialect. Give it a shot and let me know!

Thanks, 
Karthik

> On Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 10:14:51 PM UTC+1, Anthony Vece wrote:
> Don’t forget to add Italian!
> 
> 
> Sent from my Verizon iPhone 8+!!!
> 
>> On Nov 30, 2017, at 4:08 PM, Karthik Kannan  wrote:
>> 
>> And also, Envision can read both Spanish and Portuguese in the dialect of 
>> the speaker. And in the next release of Envision we will add Spanish support 
>> to the app. 
>> 
>> Hope that helps. :)
>> 
>>> On Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 10:00:43 PM UTC+1, Gerardo Corripio wrote:
>>> Using a 5S too, nothing is read either. Hopefully a solution ia found; not 
>>> all of us have the meams to have the latest/greatest, especially here in 
>>> Latinamerica, and the Seeing AI app isn’t available here, thus was looking 
>>> forward to usimg your app.
>>> 
>>> Gera
>>> Enviado desde mi iPhone 5S de Telcel
>>> 
>>> El 30/11/2017, a la(s) 2:01 p. m., Richard Turner  
>>> escribió:
>>> 
 
 I am not the person who started this thread, but using an iPhone 5s in 
 portrait mode, nothing is read at all.
 I deleted the app since Seeing AI works so amazingly well.
 Richard
 
 
 "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of 
 flying.
 There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in 
 learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
 
 
 
 On Nov 30, 2017, at 9:00 AM, Karthik Kannan  wrote:
 
> Hi Leila, 
> 
> I'm Karthik, the founder of Envision. Can you please let me know what's 
> still not working for you? We are currently troubleshooting a few issues 
> with using live text mode on landscape mode but it should work fine on 
> Portrait. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> Karthik
>> On Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 7:10:31 PM UTC+1, Lelia Struve wrote:
>> Hi all, so I’m writing to ask if any one is using this app and if so to 
>> ask what you think of it?
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Here is my deal, before any updates it worked fine for me, now I can’t 
>> seem to do anything with it even with this latest update.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> lelia
>> 
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