er, double tap on the very first time that number
texted you, and then you will find the “block” option Richard described.
From: 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone
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Subject: RE: Blocking a text ca
” option Richard described.
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To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Blocking a text caller.
Pramit
I also got no option to block.
First you say a text message then a phone call you can see in recents. I don't
Pramit
I also got no option to block.
First you say a text message then a phone call you can see in recents. I don't
believe the text messages from groups that you want to delete are considered
phone calls and will show there. That would make it easier to delete.
What I get in messages is an
This may be a
gmail question not a voice over question. Dismiss it if you think it
inappropriate for the list.
I've been going through the "ALL" folder and getting rid of all the mail I
thought was deleted but never has been. Everything is in there including
notes and they date back to 2017,
I cuss at Seeri frequently and she usually responds in a huffy voice with
something like: and all I was trying to do was help you.
Just now to test what she might say I asked a question I knew she could not
answer. When she bungled the question, I said rather unfairly in this instance:
you
Hello all
I just found out about this incredible service called Lots of Helping Hands.
The web site is accessible on a PC but the App has icons that do nothing
when you hit on them as you would select a Tab. Has anyone tried using the
smart phone app with any success?
Deidre
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that can be offered. Thank you in advance.
Richard Petty
From: 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com]
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2020 10:41 AM
To: viphone@googlegroupscom <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: using the phone for translations
R
Oh yes, Dulce, you meant an attached file, not the message! Sorry for my
useless suggestion. Richard came to the rescue once again.
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Sent: Friday, February 7, 2020 11:54 AM
To:
Dulce
I believe all you do is hit on reply and arrow down until you hear print. If it
is not under the reply button, try one of the others.For instance when you hit
reply as in to reply to a message, you have to hit reply a second time to get
into the message body. That is because there are
Dulce
At the top of the opening screen are 3or 4 tabs. One is called Crowns, one is
called Streaks and the other one is called Hearts. You have to select Hearts
then read down until you see the word Gems then the plus sign and the number 1.
I hit on that to open a lesson. It sometimes takes
.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-translator/id1018949559
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 Jan 31, 2020, at 8:31 AM, 'dei
Hello all
I'm wondering if a costly but easy way to use a phone to translate Spanish
into English is to buy another phone or some other device. I do not own an
ipad, or tablet, or ipod or any other device. I assume that the translators
readily available for sale all have screens where you read the
, go to Accessibility, VoiceOver, then turn off the
item that automatically describes images. This will stop WhatsApp saying
something every time a new voice message plays.
On 1/23/2020 5:51 PM, 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone wrote:
> Update.
> I thought I was signed in but I wasn't. Once I
Update.
I thought I was signed in but I wasn't. Once I signed in the download started
just fine.
I haven't paid much attention to posts about What's App since I wasn't using
it, but maybe I should have read those posts! I'll see soon enough.
Deidre
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Hello all
A friend has been pesterung ne to use What's App rather than text messaging.
He wants to hear my voice not read the gibberish I sometimes send him when
the dictation is shoddy and I haven't taken the time to correct it.
I first did a search for What's App and saw a few listings.
, 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone wrote:
> Penny
> It's Duo Lingo. I access it on my i Phone. It's a free download from the App
> Store. I don't know how many languages it has lessons for, but I bet it's a
> lot of them.
> Deidre
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, 2020, at 4:10 PM, 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Sorry for that forward. Here is the link to the very first video and what
>> you should expect to hear:
>> https://youtu.be/qIcAGtYdWPc
>>
>>
>> Deidre
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you should expect to hear:
https://youtu.be/qIcAGtYdWPc
Deidre
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Ihave a better suggestion. Go to YouTube and Plug in Duo Lingo Spanish Lesson 1
and see what comes up. There is a guy who goes through the lessons and it's the
same as what is on the App. He does it in English and you will hear what the
App says in both English and Spanish. In my next
020, at 3:37 PM, 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone
> wrote:
>
> There may be pictures but on my App there is a list of things to choose
> from. I swipe to the right to go down line by line and see what the choices
> are. They are words and you choose the one that is the word in Spani
; You will have a list of recently used versions you can switch among after
>> you have done this. They are available for down load for off line use,
>> though I’ve been content so far just to read within the app.
>> Hope this is some enlightenment to you on this Sunday.
>> B
Maybe there are some settings you need to turn on. Sorry you aren't
getting any useful feedback. I don't remember having to do anything for voice
over to read me what was there.
The program is fairly intuitive cause there isn't a lot to read on a
single screen. After you
e available for down load for off line use, though
> I’ve been content so far just to read within the app.
> Hope this is some enlightenment to you on this Sunday.
> Bill Outman
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jan 18, 2020, at 3:40 PM, 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone
Duo Lingo is good and systematic in it's approach. If you don't get a perfect
score on a given lesson, it will hammer you to death with the same questions
over and over again. The problem for me is that I can't figure out how to keep
going through lessons and I think it has something to do with
Sabrina
Did you set the type of notification you wanted through Notification Settings,
not through the setting called sound? There are a lot of choices to be made and
likely a done button to lock them in place.
Oh, this may be done differently with IOS 13, so I may be
barking
Harry
the native Books App with voice over does not read the text. Too bad. I guess
it's back to my recorded books which are easy and require no fussing with. Duo
Lingo is so repetitive, it's tedious. I've found the same to be true of other
audio course work like the Pinzler series.
I guess
-to-upper-intermediate-course/id942879069
Harry
On 11 Jan 2020, at 19:07, 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone
wrote:
Harry, do you see the text in books for the Teach Yourself series you referred
to? I didn't see them, but I'll do a serch.
Deidre
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From: 'Harry Bell' via
Jan
I thought of the Hadley course but my braile skills aren't complete. What do
you mean by "usb?" It might be worth giving it a try.
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to pretty huge on my iPad so I can pick my way slowly
through the lessons!
Good luck!
Harry
> On 11 Jan 2020, at 14:15, 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone
> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> I'm looking for books on beginner's Spanish. I want to see the written words
> which I thought Voic
s are
> part English, partly in Italian and VoiceOver does not change automatically
> - so Italian words are often not recognisable when spoken. My only solution
> is to change the text size to pretty huge on my iPad so I can pick my way
> slowly through the lessons!
> Good luck!
> H
Hello all,
I'm looking for books on beginner's Spanish. I want to see the written words
which I thought Voice Dream might work for. I know there will be accent
marks, but if a text is designed for both text alone or for text and audio
both, this might work. The translater on my iphone is great,
Hello all
I am stil living in the dark ages when it comes to knowing what my options
are for accessing e-texts either through ibooks or Voice Dream or through
whatever commercial avenues would allow me to download actual texts of
books. I am not talking about audio, I want to see exact formatting
Great article. This is definitely something to recommend these devices.
Deidre
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To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: FW: When Apple Suggests The Iphone, iPad
All is well with Nearby Explorer, not the on-line version. Tweaked settings
and now I hear street names. Downloaded one of the first 2 in the lists for
Google Maps which appear to be identical only the descriptions aren't. Both
are 144 mb. I was confused by how each app was prefaced by my hearing
Hello
3 days ago I downloaded Nearby Explorer from a family sharing purchase page
in the App Store. What I have is Version1.30.00 copywright date of
2010-2019. I've hard since that the only Nearby Explorer now available is
the on-line App. This does not appear to be true since the app I
Duane
You can also go to your timeline by way of the FacebookMenu Tab at the bottom
of each Facebook App screen. Then you have to find and hit on Profile and show
Profile pages, then arrow down or go heading by heading until you get to
"manage posts." From there swipe right to go down line by
. -Steve Jobs
>
>> On Oct 27, 2019, at 7:37 AM, 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all
>> I posted something along these lines some days ago and got no
>> response. Perhaps it's because no one is cataloging or uploading photos to
>>
they can change the world are the ones who
do. -Steve Jobs
> On Oct 27, 2019, at 7:37 AM, 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone
> wrote:
>
> Hello all
>I posted something along these lines some days ago and got no
> response. Perhaps it's because no one is cataloging or uploading ph
Hello all
I posted something along these lines some days ago and got no
response. Perhaps it's because no one is cataloging or uploading photos to
Facebook since they can't see them.
It's easy to post, create and add photos to an album, and to caption them,
and I know what they are, but
Hello all
In the last day I managed to upload some photos to Facebook using my PC. Now
when I go back to either albums I created or ones that have been there for
awhile, the individual pictures won't show. It may say Timeline Photos and
how many pictures are in there, or the name of a photo album,
Richard
I used Apple Accessibility when I first got an i Phone years
ago. I forget they are still out there. I see al the info regarding the
organizer just don't see her purchases anywhere any longer which used to show
when I selected the Update Tab.
In
Hey all
A few more things that are different since updating to 12.4 is that I no
longer see my family member's list of purchases and downloads in the APP
Store under the UPDATE TAB. That family member does indeed show in settings
somewhere having to do with family shairing, but can I assume any
On my phone the message app opens automatically no matter I am sending to
another i Phone user or other kind of smart phone user. I hate this since
updating... having to create a shortcut and even those aren't as straight
forward as you'd think.
Deidre
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have mentioned that they don’t have this problem if they
don’t use Siri to send the message. In my case, I have always used Siri. I
will have to try to type in a message to someone with an Android who has no
message in my message app & see what happens.
Sherry Wells
From: 'deidre m
Sometimes the message does indeed send but not always. Perhaps there is a
setting for timing out or canceling out the message if it will not send in a
set period of time. This happens even when I send text messages to other i
Phone users.
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From:
I've got T-Mobile and this happens to me as well. I'm not sure where the
problem is coming from.
Deidre
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Is this happening to anyone else?
since updating, when I am asked by Siri if I would like to replay or call back
the person whose voice mail message I have just listened to, what happens is
that the last person I have called is dialed back, not the person whose message
i have just listened
Hello J.
As you said, if you ask Siri to call voice
mail, she will tell you that there is or has no voice mail. I just tested this.
If you ask Siri to call yourself she will. You would then listen and follow
instructions on how to retrieve your mail with the
Wow, this is pretty impressive. Might be time to get rid of Verizon.
Deidre
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I'm forwarding to everyone
Carolyn
I'm so thoroughly unimpressed by this lack of recognition. I never had this
problem before. It's funny too, because I am someone who loves to tweak
settings to make the most of them. I text a lot, and a wide range of people, so
by now
Teaching Siri how to pronounce a name is
it to know so I don’t think reading one’s mind is going to be on the
menu soon.
My guess is that after the update SIRI maybe reset or lost some of what it
learned over time and is starting to built this up again from scratch.
From: 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2019 10:07 AM
Lastly, I didn't find anyplace to affect the Seeri voice. I switched it
back to the somewhat insipid American female.
Now, it's time to leave the list and get to work.
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Sent: Thursday
I now have a very sick sounding Australian female Seeri. How do I speed her
up?
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Have you deleted and reinstalled TuneIn yet? sounds like that should fix it.
VoiceOver only uses one voice throughout the phone. There are more options for
voices in iOS 12 than 10, though, I think.
Best,
Anna
On Aug 8, 2019, at 9:31 AM, 'Deidre m
Anna
Why the need for the extra step to get Seeri to recognize someone in my contact
folder? I always used to simply say text and the name of the person, and almost
always only used a first name. That worked. Using Seeri to make calls has been
far less reliable. I guess I'll have to do the
Hello again
I just asked Seeri to text a friend by the name of Miles. She asked me which
one I wanted and gave me 3 other names all beginning with the letter M. Now I
take it the phone wants me to always include a last name if I want her to get
it right the first time around. I have no last
Arthur C. Clarke's third law says: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic."
(Sent from the magical iPhone SE)
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On Aug 8, 2019, at 5:00 AM, 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone
wrote:
Dave
Ah, I overlooked that, though it did cro
little see if I can get it going.
Deidre
On Aug 7, 2019, at 9:21 PM, Dulce Muccio Weisenborn wrote:
The phone definitely goes silent, so don't push buttons until the update is
finished.
- Original Message -
From: 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Date: 08/07/2
It's taking forever to load up. I get no voice over unless I wait 4 or more
minutes and tap around, the tapping around may be doing nothing. I will seek
some sighted help to see if anything is coming up on the screen. All my other
apps like YouTube and Facebook work great, in fact better.
7, 2019 8:55 AM
>> To: VIPhone Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: updating
>>
>> Hello Deidre,
>>
>> Apple put a lot of work into improving the performance of older devices
>> in iOS 12. I would encourage you to update. You'll get a lot of security
>>
I started the update and then dropped the phone. It appears as if the phone is
not powered up even though it is very warm. I can't remember if this is what
happens when updating - that the phone goes silent.
Deidre
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Hey all
I'm one of those old dinasaur's who never updated beyond 10.3. I've got
plenty of storage left on my iPhone 6. One friend with a 5S said the more
recent updates were not any kind of improvement for his phone, and he
proclaimed that the updates were geared to newer phones. I fear the jump
No joke Sieghard.
I looked at the accessibility settings on an Android the other night
that a friend had, and paid very little for, since it was through Virgin
Mobile. Right off, there were 3 options, none of which indicated anything you
could intuitively select. I hand it to Apple
this on your own. The
last time I read up on this, Battery University had a good article.
On 6/1/19 12:29 PM, 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone wrote:
> Hello all
> Someone I know repeatedly tells me that she keeps her i Phone 6S plugged in
> all the time, and that it does not add to the wear on the
Hello all
Someone I know repeatedly tells me that she keeps her i Phone 6S plugged in
all the time, and that it does not add to the wear on the longtime battery
life of the phone. What I think she is suggesting is that because the phone
is plugged in all the time, (she has an additional battery
on batery life.
Jenn
Jenn and Kumi
On May 30, 2019, at 6:14 AM, 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone
wrote:
Someone mentioned awhile ago a way to go into settings to boost the volume for
playing music. I can't remember what that was, does anyone else remember how to
do
Someone mentioned awhile ago a way to go into settings to boost the volume for
playing music. I can't remember what that was, does anyone else remember how to
do it?
Deidre
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When I hit on the link
https://www.applevis.com/sites/default/files/podcasts/applevispodcast1225.mp3
there,
may your moccasins make happy tracks in many snows,
And may the rainbow always touch your shoulder.
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To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2019 2:30 PM
Subje
. Nothing
does that as far as I know.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe6QoSaM55RDnt3gsrrnOMpE_5OM1t5U2jfJ4l5-OLjycGLuw/viewform
On Apr 5, 2019, at 12:16 PM, 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone
wrote:
It was interesting to read the announcement from NFB about KNFB Reader
/1FAIpQLSe6QoSaM55RDnt3gsrrnOMpE_5OM1t5U2jfJ4l5-OLjycGLuw/viewform
On Apr 5, 2019, at 12:16 PM, 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone
wrote:
It was interesting to read the announcement from NFB about KNFB Reader that
you, or someone else forwarded the list yesterday. The results of this scan
It was interesting to read the announcement from NFB about KNFB Reader that
you, or someone else forwarded the list yesterday. The results of this scan are
indeed the difference between day and night.
I did find that the scan using Scanner benefited greatly from
the page being
Bierman
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2019 2:14 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: printers
On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 6:09 AM 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone
wrote:
Ugh. Just looking up the Brother printers which Keith recommended was an
ordeal. Some of the older models don't have proprietary
Noe
A lot of shows are broadcast live on YouTube and Tune-In Radio. Both can be
downloaded as Apps from the App store or you could go directly to the shows web
site. Facebook will also alert you to a particular person's show that is live
streaming at a certain hour if you want to be alerted
00 (low cost generic replacements work well
too).
Keith Bierman
khb...@gmail.com
303 997 2749
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 4:44 PM 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone
wrote:
Hey all
I've decided it is time to once more own a printer. I use one so little that
I was happy to get rid of the bulk of the las
Hey all
I've decided it is time to once more own a printer. I use one so little that
I was happy to get rid of the bulk of the last one, but I am also tired of
asking friends to print things for me. I've also packed up my desktop
scanner and miss that too.
Funny enough, a few weeks ago I needed a
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