I added a phonetic first name into my contacts and SIRI and VoiceOver on the
Mac and iPhone appear to use this. I am not sure now, since even in this
message Alex pronounced it correctly.
To do this goto the Card menu in the contacts application and select add field.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
Can you add this phonetic representation on the mac too?
Devin Prater
d.pra...@me.com
On Jul 6, 2014, at 6:08 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn jonc...@cox.net wrote:
I added a phonetic first name into my contacts and SIRI and VoiceOver on the
Mac and iPhone appear to use this. I am not sure now, since
Hi
I feel the same way. If we find bugs, at least we can report them. the sooner
we do, the sooner they will be to get fixed... after the update comes out, that
is.
Sent from my iPad
On Jul 3, 2014, at 12:16 AM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com
wrote:
I would actually
Hi!
Actually i must be the only guy on this list not liking alex at all.
For some reason i don't like him.
/A
1 jul 2014 kl. 09:31 skrev Sandi Jazmin Kruse sandi1...@gmail.com:
gorgeous! so now alex can guide me around when i am out visiting
patients ! yeehah!! apple way to go!
Will it also
In what way don't you like him?
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 02/07/2014 10:31, Anders Holmberg wrote:
Hi!
Actually i must be the only guy on this list not liking alex at all.
For some reason i don't like him.
/A
1 jul 2014 kl. 09:31 skrev
Which voice do you use, then if you don’t like Alex.
On 2 Jul 2014, at 12:01, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com
wrote:
In what way don't you like him?
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 02/07/2014 10:31, Anders Holmberg
My only complain about Alex on the Mac is that the voice tends to slur a
bit when the rate of speech is up to a high value and if the inflection
or intonation is past 85%. Other than that, it's a pleasant voice with
a realistic breathing algorithm. I notice that it doesn't breathe when
you
Hi.
I am not a fan of alex. I use some of the other english voices, mostly heather
because I once bought the acapella voices, because they are better for danish.
Best regards Annie.
Den 02/07/2014 kl. 11.31 skrev Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se:
Hi!
Actually i must be the only guy on
Hi there
I realize that we are doing a lot of speculation here, but does anybody know if
we will be able to have a female voice with iOS eight? My sided husband had
this reaction when I told him about Alex on iOS eight. He is been using voice
over a lot lately to do reading on his iPhone
Hi!
As someone stated he seems to not be able to talk that good over 80%.
I really want to have my speech set to high speed so thats why.
/A
2 jul 2014 kl. 13:01 skrev Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com:
In what way don't you like him?
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the
Ar I see. I have him on about 50% speed on my mac and intonation about
the same so don't experience these issues.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 02/07/2014 13:19, Anders Holmberg wrote:
Hi!
As someone stated he seems to not be able to talk
The voices shouldn't change a whole lot just because it's iOS 8. We just
have a new voice or will be and that's that.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 02/07/2014 12:51, Eugenia Firth wrote:
Hi there
I realize that we are doing a lot of
I would actually prefer to have more bug fixes in iOS 8 rather than new
features. If we got no new features but all the iOS 7 bugs were fixed I'd be so
happy. The new features sound awesome, but I just hope bug fixes get proper
priority.
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If it's like the mac Alex will be a U.S. English voice only. Other
languages should still use the Vocalizer Expressive voices as with the
case on iOS 7. As for speak screen I speculate this would be useless for
VO users; more for those with low vision such as Zoom users or those
with a
gorgeous! so now alex can guide me around when i am out visiting
patients ! yeehah!! apple way to go!
Will it also mean one can hear the map when i drive on the highway one
wonders? lets hope so…
On 6/30/14, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
If it's like the mac Alex will
Correct, speak screen already exists in iOS 7. It is a little harder to find. I
have a client who sees perfectly well, but has dyslexia. I am training him to
use speak screen for long screens of text that he becomes very frustrated
whilst trying to read.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email:
How do you find this option?
On 1 Jul 2014, at 5:49 pm, David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com wrote:
Correct, speak screen already exists in iOS 7. It is a little harder to find.
I have a client who sees perfectly well, but has dyslexia. I am training him
to use speak screen for long
Sounds like speak selection and it's in Settings, General,
Accessibility. You select some text and a speak button should appear
which one taps on to speak the selection.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 01/07/2014 10:39, Sean Murphy wrote:
ok.
seems to me, that users of vo do not have new features in voice over on
IOS8.
because if these are the new releases for IOS8 accessibility, nothing
was done especially for vo.
jonathan moasen and some others blind users have made a list of the new
features they would like
It is called speak selection.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
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On 1 Jul 2014, at 21:39, Sean Murphy mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote:
How do you find this option?
On 1 Jul 2014, at 5:49 pm, David Chittenden
1) Just because Apple has not implemented the features you wish to see does not
mean, in any way, that Apple has not added new features to VoiceOver.
2) Unless you are a beta tester, you do not know what Apple has or has not
added. And, beta testers are not supposed to provide such information.
Apple has opened up third-party keyboards, so Fleksy can become your
system-wide input method if you wish. They also added braille input directly to
VoiceOver, letting you use braille on the screen anywhere you can type. By the
way, that last one was on a WWDC Keynote slide, so it's public
I think voiceover will be improved, as it always is. Every big release,
and even some small releases, contain changes. I still remember my first
big update, to iOS5. I loved the premium voices! Then in iOS6 we were
able to underline and bold text in any app that supported it, not just
in
iOS 5 was sure a big update. Let me stress that it's far and few in
between we get big updates. The last time was iOS 5 back in 2011. Then
do you all remember iOS 3 back in 2009?
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 01/07/2014 19:36, Devin Prater
I don’t know what to expect from IOS 8 but it would be nice if they could
continue the trend of voices. In the form of downloading voices you actually
want. Like on the Mac.
By example, say for those in the US, by default you get Samantha but you
actually preferred Tom for whatever reason. Or
A pronunciation dictionary would be nice as well. I have a bunch of names in my
contact list voice over refuses to pronounce correctly. Had this time, I cannot
change that.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 1, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Daniel McGee danielmcgee...@googlemail.com
wrote:
I don’t know what
Hmm, I wonder if you change the pronounciation with siri if vo will use
it too.
On 7/1/2014 3:46 PM, Jessica D wrote:
A pronunciation dictionary would be nice as well. I have a bunch of names in my
contact list voice over refuses to pronounce correctly. Had this time, I cannot
change that.
No, voice over and Siri are two completely separate things.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 1, 2014, at 6:10 PM, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote:
Hmm, I wonder if you change the pronounciation with siri if vo will use it
too.
On 7/1/2014 3:46 PM, Jessica D wrote:
A pronunciation dictionary
Yes, but if the pronunciation of names by siri could be given to voiceover it'd
be good.
Devin Prater
d.pra...@me.com
On Jul 1, 2014, at 8:06 PM, Jessica D jldai...@gmail.com wrote:
No, voice over and Siri are two completely separate things.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 1, 2014, at 6:10
Yes, maybe we could request this as a future feature request.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 1, 2014, at 9:08 PM, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote:
Yes, but if the pronunciation of names by siri could be given to voiceover
it'd be good.
Devin Prater
d.pra...@me.com
On Jul 1, 2014,
hi.
alex on IOS8 will only support English / USA, or will speak all the
languages that are available today in the voices of IOS7 vocalizer
expressive voices?
yes, because if Alex comes to IOS8, must be present for all languages
and not only for English USA.
on the mac, alex only supports
I imagine Alex will remain English only, with the usual Nuance voices being
used for all other languages. That's just speculation, though.
I don't know, but the speak screen option seems more for occasional use by
people who can usually see the screen; I doubt it is intended for use by VO
Thought the below article might be of interest to some on the list.
http://www.macstories.net/stories/an-overview-of-ios-8s-new-accessibility-features/
An Overview of iOS 8's New Accessibility Features
Since this year's WWDC keynote ended, the focus of any analysis on iOS 8 has
been its
I totally agree with the article. Even little things like the reader mode in
Safari for mac and iOS, make things so simple and lovely. I can't wait to see
what's new in Yosimidy though. On a side note, do they have to make OS names so
hard to spell nowadays? What ever happened to simplicity
Yosemite is no harder than Apple. It could be worse, much worse. And
now we wait out the summer. That for some methinks will be much harder
than learning to spell Y o s e m i t e. ;)
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