Re: Bluez and Battery Level Accuracy
Yep, my BT battery indicator on my 4s indicates 88% after a charge and it hangs there for hours. this may be an iPhone issue as I've had similar issues with other Bluetooth headsets like my Plantronics 903+ which shows up at around 69% when freshly charged. On Friday, August 2, 2013 8:03:34 AM UTC-7, Lisa Belville wrote: Hi, all. I've been using the Aftershokz Bluez with my iPhone 5 for about a month now and I really like them. There's just one oddity, and I'm asking your opinion because the technical support at the company doesn't believe me. Seriously, I have the Email to prove it. grin even after a several hour charge, the most the Bluetooth battery indicator will show for the Bluez is 88%. The next levels are 69%, 49%, and finally 29%, which is when I get the battery low warning. I haven't had issues with the battery life at all. Yesterday I had a full 88% charge and it was still at 88% after four hours of streaming music and taking/receiving a few calls. I only contacted the company because I'm doing a podcast describing/demonstrating the Bluez and I wanted clarification from the Aftershokz people. I am positive the Bluez is the only thing being referred to in this instance, as the only battery indicator besides the Bluetooth one is the phone, and the phone is the only indicator if the Bluez are not paired. Voiceover has always distinguished between the Bluetooth battery and the phone battery by saying Bluetooth or just battery, not to mention the fact that they are located at different places on the status bar. They want me to take a picture of this and send it to them to show them I'm not getting the Bluetooth and the device battery confused. Have any of you had this issue using an iPhone 5? How can I show these people what's going on? I don't have any way to take a picture of my phone, and I don't know how to get them to hear Voice over if I'm using the phone to call them. I didn't mention anything about being blind in my original query, so I'm not sure if they've had this issue before and it turned out a misreading of the battery indicator was the issue. Lisa, who isn't sure whether to laugh or what. I may have had an encounter with the ugly stick, but the whole tree is after you! Lisa Belville misskt...@frontier.com javascript: -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Earl app subscription fees
Thanks for your feedback regarding Earl. It’s always nice to hear what people like about Earl but your constructive feedback is also appreciated. When we developed Earl, we chose a different focus than NFB did with Newsline. To be sure, Newsline provides a good service for people who are comfortable learning the voice over interface and satisfied with its standard voices. In contrast, we built Earl to be fully accessible without requiring someone to learn or use voice over, and to give the user a much simpler and higher quality reading experience. . Achieving this involved a significant investment of time and money, and maintaining the Earl Service requires substantial ongoing costs. As a business, we have to cover these costs, particularly the substantial ongoing costs of providing Earl’s quality voice interface and text to speech voices. As a regular for profit business, we do not receive income from nonprofit sources such as grants or contributions. We have also opted to provide a clean uncluttered reading experience for our customers by keeping Earl free of any in-app advertising for the time being. Without such alternative sources of revenue, we must rely on income from subscriptions in order to cover our ongoing business expenses. Please understand that we have not artificially inflated our pricing at all. I’m sorry to hear that there is some discomfort with our subscription cost but I am glad to hear that most people like what we’ve done with Earl. Again, thank you for your helpful feedback. If you have any questions, need support, or have additional feedback for us please drop us a note at *supp...@earlspeech.com* supp...@earlspeech.com. Best, Bill On Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:18:53 AM UTC-7, Eileen wrote: Hello Folks, I just installed the app. I was enjoying it until I heard that I maxed out on the 3 articles that I could read for day. The next prompt offered for me to subscribe to Earl services. I was extremely surprised when I saw the monthly and the yearly subscription fees. I guess I will have to be more selective on the 3 articles I choose each day. These fees are exorbitant for those who are visually impaired or blind. JMO. Thanks for listening. Best, Eileen Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Earl app subscription fees
Thanks for your feedback regarding Earl. It's always nice to hear what people like about Earl but your constructive feedback is also appreciated. When we developed Earl, we chose a different focus than NFB did with Newsline. To be sure, Newsline provides a good service for people who are comfortable learning the voice over interface and satisfied with its standard voices. In contrast, we built Earl to be fully accessible without requiring someone to learn or use voice over, and to give the user a much simpler and higher quality reading experience. . Achieving this involved a significant investment of time and money, and maintaining the Earl Service requires substantial ongoing costs. As a business, we have to cover these costs, particularly the substantial ongoing costs of providing Earl's quality voice interface and text to speech voices. As a regular for profit business, we do not receive income from nonprofit sources such as grants or contributions. We have also opted to provide a clean uncluttered reading experience for our customers by keeping Earl free of any in-app advertising for the time being. Without such alternative sources of revenue, we must rely on income from subscriptions in order to cover our ongoing business expenses. Please understand that we have not artificially inflated our pricing at all. I'm sorry to hear that there is some discomfort with our subscription cost but I am glad to hear that most people like what we've done with Earl. Again, thank you for your helpful feedback. If you have any questions, need support, or have additional feedback for us please drop us a note at supp...@earlspeech.com. Best, Bill p.s. Right now, we are exploring some enhancements which would substantially expand the types of content users could read with Earl through our service. Keep an eye out for new updates to Earl in coming months. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Chittenden Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 5:31 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Earl app subscription fees You are correct. Whenever possible, I choose to pay the general market price for an accessible app rather than the higher price for an app specifically for the blind. I do the same with technology, hence my switch from Windows to the Mac in 2011. I choose to support general market accessibility over specialised access when available. Overall, I find general market companies more willing to add accessibility compared with blindness-related companies increasing their scope toward the general market. There are exceptions, of course, and I try and support the exceptions when possible. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 12/04/2013, at 21:58, Peter Durieux peter.durieux1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David and listers, Just a quick remark. Don't forget that development costs a lot. If the market isn't that big, they need a bit higher price to get brake even. I can't understand that people find 20$ for a specialized app to expensive. Remember those days that we paid more then $1000 for our apps. Just my 2 cents. Kind regards, -Peter Op 11-apr.-2013, om 23:49 heeft David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: I would actually say, these fees are quite high. I can find general market targeted apps that provide similar content for significantly less money per month or year. As for the nature of fees, most companies that target their apps specifically toward the blind charge significantly more, either in upfront app cost, or in access fees. One example is Look Around vs its general market competitors. Look Around is $4.99. Its three main competitors which I have are Around Me (free), LocalScope (I don't remember what I paid, if anything, but no more than $1.99), and Where To (which is $2.99). Look Around announces the name of the nearest intersection and has a shake to announce feature. It also has significantly fewer POI in its database, and only works in a few countries. That said, to many people, it is preferable because it is specifically targeted toward the blind. Another example is Access Note. This app costs $20. It has a few features that most other note taking apps do not have, is targeted toward the very small market of the blind, and is 10 times more expensive than most of its rivals. The rivals, incidentally, access more file types and have more features, but do not provide specialised braille support or track the location of the reading cursor when the app is closed. Being a tiny market, as a general rule, we will get higher prices for specialised apps that are targeted specifically toward the blind. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 12/04/2013, at 5:18, Eileens Misrahi eileen.misr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Folks, I just
Earl is free for a limited time! the fully accessible newspaper reading app
We've just made Earl Free on the iTunes app store for a limited time! Getting the news has never been so easy! The trademark E is all there is to see because Earl's™ magic is in his voice, and yours. Just double-tap the screen, speak a few simple commands and unleash an entire world of newspapers, magazines and websites. Let Earl™ read to you as you go about your daily life, never missing a headline. Find Earl in the App Store at *https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/Earl/id573701016?ls=1mt=8*https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/Earl/id573701016?ls=1mt=8 Also check out our second\ Earl podcast at AppleVis * http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/earl-part-2-customizing-your-newspaper-reading-experience *http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/earl-part-2-customizing-your-newspaper-reading-experience Earl Part 2: Customizing your newspaper reading experience with this fully accessible voice controlled app for iOS mobile devices Bill shows us how to customize Earl, a new app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. He demonstrates how to Use the FAVORITES feature to create a personalized newspaper list, and how to use the SETTINGS feature to adjust Earls speech rate and select from any of Earl’s five high quality male and female text to speech voices, all using Earl’s tap and speak voice user interface. Learn more About Earl at the Earl Speech homepage http://www.earlspeech.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: new accessible news reading app - Earl
JD, to access Earl and use the same subscription on multiple devices, each device must be signed in with the same iTunes account ID and password as the account that made the purchase. Otherwise this is not possible. To all, our Home page for Earl is *www.EarlSpeech.com* http://www.earlspeech.com/ if you search in the App Store, it should come up with “Earl” On Saturday, February 9, 2013 5:34:32 PM UTC-8, Bill Spiry wrote: Greetings friends. Read Again Earl We’ve just released our new accessible news reading app called “Earl.” It’s our first, and I’d really like to hear what you all think about it. We’ve put a lot of time and effort into getting it right and I think Earl is pretty special. Here are some details… We’ve designed Earl for every person who wants to read the paper every day, and do it without having to spend a lot of time learning and using a complicated set of gestures and commands. Just double-tap your screen, listen for the double tone, speak a few straightforward commands and Earl™ will read articles you select from nearly 300 newspapers from around the world, without your ever having to see the screen. From national news sources to your local paper, Earl™ makes the latest news accessible to you, anytime, anywhere. All you need is an iPhone®, iPad® or iPod Touch®, an internet connection and a desire to keep up on what's happening in your community and around the world. The Earl app is uncomplicated, accessible with or without VoiceOver and just plain fun to use. The Earl app gives you full control over all of Earl’s powerful features. You’ll be able to try out all of Earl's features including our tap and speak controls, voice and speed settings, ability to customize your favorites newspaper list, and bookmarking articles. Without a subscription, you’ll have access to read up to three articles a day from all of the content available from our growing library of nearly 300 U.S. and international newspapers. By double tapping any Earl screen, waiting for the double tone, and saying “SUBSCRIBE”, the app will take you to the Apple App Store where you can subscribe to the Earl Subscription service. Once you subscribe, you’ll have unlimited access to read as much as you want from all of our extensive and growing content from around the world. Go to our Read Again Earl website to find more info about our app and subscription service. You’ll find an extensive FAQ that answers many of the questions we anticipate from users and we’ve included a set of tutorial podcasts you can find in the “learning” tab as well as an intro and demo video. Earl Home Page http://readagainearl.com/ Earl in the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/Earl/id573701016?ls=1mt=8 We’re already working on our first update to Earl which will include some great enhancements, such as the ability to launch a customer support phone call or email to Earl Support directly from within the app. I would appreciate any public feedback you all would be willing to give our Earl App through the App Store, our “read Again Earl” Facebook page, Twitter, or any other likely suspects you are aware of. We would really like your “likes” if you feel we deserve them! also, feel free to contact me directly at bill.sp...@anglellc.com thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: new accessible news reading app - Earl
thanks Richard. On Saturday, February 16, 2013 5:49:42 PM UTC-8, Richard Turner wrote: Bill, You need to make sure your responses are at the top of the reply message instead of at the end. I'm pasting below your response that was almost missed because it was at the end of the message: For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.HiPeter. Sorry I didn't get back to you on this sooner. I'm inserting a guide below on the gesture alternatives for EARL. in our next release (anticipating the week of Feb 25 in conjunction with C-Sun), we have some updates to our help function that we hope will make it much easier to use. Gesture alternatives for certain voice commands We’ve designed Earl so that every single function can be controlled using the double tap gesture followed by one of Earl’s voice commands. For users who are comfortable using gestures, we have also built in some gesture controls that can be used instead of voice commands for certain navigational and playback functions. Voice over Users will find Earl’s gestures familiar. With a bit of practice, these gestures can speed up navigation in Earl when used in conjunction with our voice commands. Earl FunctionVoice Command 1 finger double tap +Gesture Equivalent Stop readingSTOP2 finger double tap Resume readingSTART2 finger double tap Read screen from topREAD AGAINTwo finger scrub side to side Move up 1 paragraphMOVE UP3 finger swipe downward Move down 1 paragraphMOVE DOWN3 finger swipe upward Go back 1 screen in history GO BACK3 finger swipe to the right Go forward 1 screen in historyGO FORWARD3 finger swipe to the left -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to vip...@googlegroups.com javascript:. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+u...@googlegroups.com javascript:. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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+u...@googlegroups.com javascript:. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -Original Message- From: vip...@googlegroups.com javascript: [mailto: vip...@googlegroups.com javascript:] On Behalf Of Bill Spiry Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 5:37 PM To: VIPhone Subject: Re: new accessible news reading app - Earl Peter Holdstock wrote: Hi, sorry as I know I should email any technical support queries elsewhere but thought it might be useful for this list to see the response. I tried to find out about the finger gestures as for me it would be much quicker and convenient than using the speech. It didn't seem that you could navigate the whole app using gestures. Is that correct? If not, could you provide a list of gestures as voice over commands don't seem to wortk in most cases i.e. I want to be able to scan through the list of options, make a selection, go back etc with gestures. The app is great but a little slow to use with just speech and I'd like to see more content for the UK but I realise a lot of papers have their content subscription based now. Thanks Peter -Original Message- From: Bill Spiry Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 1:34 AM To: VIPhone Subject: new accessible news reading app - Earl Greetings friends. Read Again Earl We�ve just released our new accessible news reading app called �Earl.� It�s our first, and I�d really like to hear what you all think about it. We�ve put a lot of time and effort into getting it right and I think Earl is pretty special. Here are some details� We�ve designed Earl for every person who wants to read the paper every day, and do it without having to spend a lot of time learning and using a complicated set of gestures and commands. Just double-tap your screen, listen for the double tone, speak a few straightforward commands and Earl� will read articles you select from nearly 300 newspapers from around the world, without your ever having to see the screen. From national news sources to your local paper, Earl� makes the latest news accessible to you, anytime, anywhere. All you need is an iPhone�, iPad� or iPod Touch�, an internet connection and a desire to keep up on what's happening in your community and around the world. The Earl app is uncomplicated, accessible with or without VoiceOver
Re: new accessible news reading app - Earl
Thanks for your question Nancy. We designed Earl’s tap speak interface to make reading newspapers and other content as easy as possible for anyone, including people who might be intimidated learning today’s accessibility technology. Earl is different from NFB’s news reader in at least a couple of ways. Probably the most notable difference is how the user interacts with Earl in contrast to NFB Newsline. NFB relies on Voice Over to manipulate the app controls and settings, and to select and read the content. That means the user needs to be pretty comfortable with all VO gestures in order to use NFB Newsline. Earl on the other hand does not require Voice Over at all. There are no buttons or controls to navigate, everything is controlled using a single finger double tap anywhere on the display followed by one of our straightforward intuitive spoken commands. This same simple tap and speak approach is also used to make all content selections in Earl. With this simple interface, a person can select and read their newspapers without having to learn Voice over gestures at all. As noted in an earlier post, for those who are comfortable using VO style gestures, we’ve also built in some gestures that can be used as a quicker alternative to the most frequently used reading and navigation controls. Another significant difference is that Earl gives you a choice of five high quality reading voices with which to read your selected content as noted in the review excerpt below. Here’s an excerpt from a review of Earl by the reviewers over at “Old Hat Guide” which also speaks to your inquiry. “If you are the type of person that likes to stay up to date on current events, then Earl is the app for you. With Earl you will be able to independently read one or more than one of over 250 newspapers from around the world. At this point you might be saying, “But I can already do this with the NFB Newsline app.” Yes this is true, but with Earl you can listen to your favorite newspaper with high quality synthesized speech as opposed to having to listen to the normal Samantha voice that Voice Over uses on iOS. This will make for a much more enjoyable reading experience. The first thing that I noticed about Earl upon launching it for the first time is that you interact with the app with your voice and not with gestures. This means that Voice Over is not required to operate this app and thus means that someone who is not blind can very easily use this app as well as someone who is blind. I love this fact as this is the first application on iOS that I have come across that can be used by both a blind person and a fully sighted person without having to do any special customization. The developers of Earl were very creative in the design of their app, and by making an app that can be fully operated with your voice it means that regardless of your disability, as long as you have the ability to talk, you will be able to use this app. Now let me talk for a minute about the speed of the app. I have found that overall this app is extremely quick to accept a voice command and then load up an article and begin reading it to you. All that you have to do after launching Earl is double tap anywhere on the screen and you will hear a tone. Then give Earl a command, and if you do not know any commands you can simply say, “Help,” and Earl will tell you what commands you can use.” Find the full review at * http://oldhatguide.com/earl-for-iphone-ipad-and-ipod-touch/*http://oldhatguide.com/earl-for-iphone-ipad-and-ipod-touch/ In our most recent release, we’ve also added additional features to help users get started quicker with Earl and more easily find answers in our in app help option. We’ve got lots more useful information about Earl on our home page at * www.EarlSpeech.com* http://www.earlspeech.com/ You can reach us for support at *supp...@earlspeech.com*supp...@earlspeech.com I hope this is helpful. Best. Bill On Sunday, February 17, 2013 10:43:00 AM UTC-8, Nancy wrote: Can someone help me understand why you would use Earl instead of the NFB Newsline app? Nancy Nancy Badger, Ph.D Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Services UT Chattanooga Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. Please excuse spelling errors. On Feb 16, 2013, at 8:56 PM, Bill Spiry b.s@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Here's a bit of updated info. We've changed our website to WWW.EarlSpeech.com/ feedb...@earlspeech.com supp...@earlspeech.com in the upcoming release, we've added a Quick Guide intro screen as well to help folks get oriented to the tap and speak interface. here's the info it will include: Welcome to Earl! Please listen carefully. This quick guide will help you get started using Earl. You will not see any text, buttons, or controls. The content of each screen will be read to you out loud. . To have
Re: new accessible news reading app - Earl
Peter Holdstock wrote: Hi, sorry as I know I should email any technical support queries elsewhere but thought it might be useful for this list to see the response. I tried to find out about the finger gestures as for me it would be much quicker and convenient than using the speech. It didn't seem that you could navigate the whole app using gestures. Is that correct? If not, could you provide a list of gestures as voice over commands don't seem to wortk in most cases i.e. I want to be able to scan through the list of options, make a selection, go back etc with gestures. The app is great but a little slow to use with just speech and I'd like to see more content for the UK but I realise a lot of papers have their content subscription based now. Thanks Peter -Original Message- From: Bill Spiry Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 1:34 AM To: VIPhone Subject: new accessible news reading app - Earl Greetings friends. Read Again Earl We�ve just released our new accessible news reading app called �Earl.� It�s our first, and I�d really like to hear what you all think about it. We�ve put a lot of time and effort into getting it right and I think Earl is pretty special. Here are some details� We�ve designed Earl for every person who wants to read the paper every day, and do it without having to spend a lot of time learning and using a complicated set of gestures and commands. Just double-tap your screen, listen for the double tone, speak a few straightforward commands and Earl� will read articles you select from nearly 300 newspapers from around the world, without your ever having to see the screen. From national news sources to your local paper, Earl� makes the latest news accessible to you, anytime, anywhere. All you need is an iPhone�, iPad� or iPod Touch�, an internet connection and a desire to keep up on what's happening in your community and around the world. The Earl app is uncomplicated, accessible with or without VoiceOver and just plain fun to use. The Earl app gives you full control over all of Earl�s powerful features. You�ll be able to try out all of Earl's features including our tap and speak controls, voice and speed settings, ability to customize your favorites newspaper list, and bookmarking articles. Without a subscription, you�ll have access to read up to three articles a day from all of the content available from our growing library of nearly 300 U.S. and international newspapers. By double tapping any Earl screen, waiting for the double tone, and saying �SUBSCRIBE�, the app will take you to the Apple App Store where you can subscribe to the Earl Subscription service. Once you subscribe, you�ll have unlimited access to read as much as you want from all of our extensive and growing content from around the world. Go to our Read Again Earl website to find more info about our app and subscription service. You�ll find an extensive FAQ that answers many of the questions we anticipate from users and we�ve included a set of tutorial podcasts you can find in the �learning� tab as well as an intro and demo video. Earl Home Page http://readagainearl.com/ Earl in the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/Earl/id573701016?ls=1mt=8 We�re already working on our first update to Earl which will include some great enhancements, such as the ability to launch a customer support phone call or email to Earl Support directly from within the app. I would appreciate any public feedback you all would be willing to give our Earl App through the App Store, our �read Again Earl� Facebook page, Twitter, or any other likely suspects you are aware of. We would really like your �likes� if you feel we deserve them! also, feel free to contact me directly at bill.sp...@anglellc.com thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.Hi Peter. Sorry I didn't get back to you on this sooner. I'm inserting a guide below on the gesture alternatives for EARL. in our next release (anticipating the week of Feb 25 in conjunction with C-Sun), we have some updates to our help function that we hope will make it much easier to use. Gesture alternatives for certain voice commands We’ve designed Earl so that every single function can
Re: new accessible news reading app - Earl
Peter Holdstock wrote: Hi, sorry as I know I should email any technical support queries elsewhere but thought it might be useful for this list to see the response. I tried to find out about the finger gestures as for me it would be much quicker and convenient than using the speech. It didn't seem that you could navigate the whole app using gestures. Is that correct? If not, could you provide a list of gestures as voice over commands don't seem to wortk in most cases i.e. I want to be able to scan through the list of options, make a selection, go back etc with gestures. The app is great but a little slow to use with just speech and I'd like to see more content for the UK but I realise a lot of papers have their content subscription based now. Thanks Peter -Original Message- From: Bill Spiry Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 1:34 AM To: VIPhone Subject: new accessible news reading app - Earl Greetings friends. Read Again Earl We�ve just released our new accessible news reading app called �Earl.� It�s our first, and I�d really like to hear what you all think about it. We�ve put a lot of time and effort into getting it right and I think Earl is pretty special. Here are some details� We�ve designed Earl for every person who wants to read the paper every day, and do it without having to spend a lot of time learning and using a complicated set of gestures and commands. Just double-tap your screen, listen for the double tone, speak a few straightforward commands and Earl� will read articles you select from nearly 300 newspapers from around the world, without your ever having to see the screen. From national news sources to your local paper, Earl� makes the latest news accessible to you, anytime, anywhere. All you need is an iPhone�, iPad� or iPod Touch�, an internet connection and a desire to keep up on what's happening in your community and around the world. The Earl app is uncomplicated, accessible with or without VoiceOver and just plain fun to use. The Earl app gives you full control over all of Earl�s powerful features. You�ll be able to try out all of Earl's features including our tap and speak controls, voice and speed settings, ability to customize your favorites newspaper list, and bookmarking articles. Without a subscription, you�ll have access to read up to three articles a day from all of the content available from our growing library of nearly 300 U.S. and international newspapers. By double tapping any Earl screen, waiting for the double tone, and saying �SUBSCRIBE�, the app will take you to the Apple App Store where you can subscribe to the Earl Subscription service. Once you subscribe, you�ll have unlimited access to read as much as you want from all of our extensive and growing content from around the world. Go to our Read Again Earl website to find more info about our app and subscription service. You�ll find an extensive FAQ that answers many of the questions we anticipate from users and we�ve included a set of tutorial podcasts you can find in the �learning� tab as well as an intro and demo video. Earl Home Page http://readagainearl.com/ Earl in the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/Earl/id573701016?ls=1mt=8 We�re already working on our first update to Earl which will include some great enhancements, such as the ability to launch a customer support phone call or email to Earl Support directly from within the app. I would appreciate any public feedback you all would be willing to give our Earl App through the App Store, our �read Again Earl� Facebook page, Twitter, or any other likely suspects you are aware of. We would really like your �likes� if you feel we deserve them! also, feel free to contact me directly at bill.sp...@anglellc.com thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.Hi Peter. Sorry I didn't get back to you on this sooner. I'm inserting a guide below on the gesture alternatives for EARL. in our next release (anticipating the week of Feb 25 in conjunction with C-Sun), we have some updates to our help function that we hope will make it much easier to use. Gesture alternatives for certain voice commands We’ve designed Earl so that every single function can
Re: new accessible news reading app - Earl
Here's a bit of updated info. We've changed our website to WWW.EarlSpeech.com/ feedb...@earlspeech.com supp...@earlspeech.com in the upcoming release, we've added a Quick Guide intro screen as well to help folks get oriented to the tap and speak interface. here's the info it will include: Welcome to Earl! Please listen carefully. This quick guide will help you get started using Earl. You will not see any text, buttons, or controls. The content of each screen will be read to you out loud. . To have Earl read any screen again, including this quick guide, double tap the screen with 1 finger, wait until you hear an ascending tone, and clearly say. READ AGAIN. To select an item from any list, double tap the screen, wait for the tone, and speak any word in the name of the option. Or. Speak the number of the option. To learn more about available commands, gestures, or other help options, double tap the screen, wait for the tone, and say. HELP. Now you are ready to begin using Earl. Do you want to hear this quick Guide the next time Earl starts? To make your selection and start using Earl, double tap the screen, wait for the tone, and say 1. yes. 2. no. To read this Quick Guide again, double tap the screen, wait for the tone, and say. READ AGAIN. Look for us at the C-Sun Conference. Peter Holdstock wrote: Hi, sorry as I know I should email any technical support queries elsewhere but thought it might be useful for this list to see the response. I tried to find out about the finger gestures as for me it would be much quicker and convenient than using the speech. It didn't seem that you could navigate the whole app using gestures. Is that correct? If not, could you provide a list of gestures as voice over commands don't seem to wortk in most cases i.e. I want to be able to scan through the list of options, make a selection, go back etc with gestures. The app is great but a little slow to use with just speech and I'd like to see more content for the UK but I realise a lot of papers have their content subscription based now. Thanks Peter -Original Message- From: Bill Spiry Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 1:34 AM To: VIPhone Subject: new accessible news reading app - Earl Greetings friends. Read Again Earl We�ve just released our new accessible news reading app called �Earl.� It�s our first, and I�d really like to hear what you all think about it. We�ve put a lot of time and effort into getting it right and I think Earl is pretty special. Here are some details� We�ve designed Earl for every person who wants to read the paper every day, and do it without having to spend a lot of time learning and using a complicated set of gestures and commands. Just double-tap your screen, listen for the double tone, speak a few straightforward commands and Earl� will read articles you select from nearly 300 newspapers from around the world, without your ever having to see the screen. From national news sources to your local paper, Earl� makes the latest news accessible to you, anytime, anywhere. All you need is an iPhone�, iPad� or iPod Touch�, an internet connection and a desire to keep up on what's happening in your community and around the world. The Earl app is uncomplicated, accessible with or without VoiceOver and just plain fun to use. The Earl app gives you full control over all of Earl�s powerful features. You�ll be able to try out all of Earl's features including our tap and speak controls, voice and speed settings, ability to customize your favorites newspaper list, and bookmarking articles. Without a subscription, you�ll have access to read up to three articles a day from all of the content available from our growing library of nearly 300 U.S. and international newspapers. By double tapping any Earl screen, waiting for the double tone, and saying �SUBSCRIBE�, the app will take you to the Apple App Store where you can subscribe to the Earl Subscription service. Once you subscribe, you�ll have unlimited access to read as much as you want from all of our extensive and growing content from around the world. Go to our Read Again Earl website to find more info about our app and subscription service. You�ll find an extensive FAQ that answers many of the questions we anticipate from users and we�ve included a set of tutorial podcasts you can find in the �learning� tab as well as an intro and demo video. Earl Home Page http://readagainearl.com/ Earl in the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/Earl/id573701016?ls=1mt=8 We�re already working on our first update to Earl which will include some great enhancements, such as the ability to launch a customer support phone call or email to Earl Support directly from within the app. I would appreciate any public feedback you all would be willing to give our Earl App through the App Store, our �read Again Earl� Facebook page, Twitter, or any
new accessible news reading app - Earl
Greetings friends. Read Again Earl We’ve just released our new accessible news reading app called “Earl.” It’s our first, and I’d really like to hear what you all think about it. We’ve put a lot of time and effort into getting it right and I think Earl is pretty special. Here are some details… We’ve designed Earl for every person who wants to read the paper every day, and do it without having to spend a lot of time learning and using a complicated set of gestures and commands. Just double-tap your screen, listen for the double tone, speak a few straightforward commands and Earl™ will read articles you select from nearly 300 newspapers from around the world, without your ever having to see the screen. From national news sources to your local paper, Earl™ makes the latest news accessible to you, anytime, anywhere. All you need is an iPhone®, iPad® or iPod Touch®, an internet connection and a desire to keep up on what's happening in your community and around the world. The Earl app is uncomplicated, accessible with or without VoiceOver and just plain fun to use. The Earl app gives you full control over all of Earl’s powerful features. You’ll be able to try out all of Earl's features including our tap and speak controls, voice and speed settings, ability to customize your favorites newspaper list, and bookmarking articles. Without a subscription, you’ll have access to read up to three articles a day from all of the content available from our growing library of nearly 300 U.S. and international newspapers. By double tapping any Earl screen, waiting for the double tone, and saying “SUBSCRIBE”, the app will take you to the Apple App Store where you can subscribe to the Earl Subscription service. Once you subscribe, you’ll have unlimited access to read as much as you want from all of our extensive and growing content from around the world. Go to our Read Again Earl website to find more info about our app and subscription service. You’ll find an extensive FAQ that answers many of the questions we anticipate from users and we’ve included a set of tutorial podcasts you can find in the “learning” tab as well as an intro and demo video. Earl Home Page http://readagainearl.com/ Earl in the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/Earl/id573701016?ls=1mt=8 We’re already working on our first update to Earl which will include some great enhancements, such as the ability to launch a customer support phone call or email to Earl Support directly from within the app. I would appreciate any public feedback you all would be willing to give our Earl App through the App Store, our “read Again Earl” Facebook page, Twitter, or any other likely suspects you are aware of. We would really like your “likes” if you feel we deserve them! also, feel free to contact me directly at bill.sp...@anglellc.com thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
