Hi Chuck,
I spend a bit of time practicing as well and also had no luck. I don’t mind
learning new stuff and am fairly patient, but at this point being successful
with Fleksy seems to be beyond me.
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Chuck Dean
Hi Krister,
I am certainly not flogging you, in fact, I think it’s awesome you are so
proficient with Fleksy and I wish I could be, but it seems to be one of those
situations where you just seem to have a particular skill/ability which allows
you to use it and most others don’t. I seem to
PDF pen pro
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 9:35 AM Emilio Hernandez <
emilio.s.hernan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Does anyone know of a solution that will give me the ability to annotate
> PDFs on an iDevice?
> Additionally, has anyone tried filling-out PDFs on an iDevice? What
> solutions
Jewel,
You can always find the message that you sent whether it be through Siri or you
typed it out through the message program by just going into messages. In fact
on your homepage up to you send a message if you swipe around you will see this
is the message you sent to and you can hit the
Hi I don’t know if we should drift off into another topic, but let me just say
that yes, it was me who had the problems with the camera, and this has to do
with mindset just as much as the operation itself. I just can’t get into my
thick head how blind folks want to and even take pictures
Hi Ari,
I've been reading this thread for a while shaking my head wondering what you
all are talking about. But I thought before I send a message telling you it's
all user error, I thought I move some rotor stuff around since I hadn't done it
in a while. I started to select and deselect a few
Hi Jewel,
You may want to just try and use dictation in Messages instead of telling SIRI
to send a message to somebody followed by the message text. I only do that if
it's pretty short, if it's longer I just open Messages, tap on Compose, find
the person I want to text and then put focus into
Is anyone on the list accessing quinton’s play room using a Mac or IOS device?
It’s a game room for blind and visually impaired persons. There is a stand
alone client for windows. However, Mac and IOS users can access it through
their web based client. I am trying to figure out how to navigate
Google Docs
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 3:55 AM Paul Hunt wrote:
> Hello Trey. I believe that Microsoft Word is the most accessible Word
> Processor. I use it for all of my note taking. I take my notes at meetings
> with my Brailliant BI 40 display. When I get home my document is
Chuck,
I've experienced what you're describing with Fleksy just announcing keyboard
and not registering any other key presses. Usually, a restart of my iPhone with
the home and power buttons fixes this problem. I'll also say it seems to arise
in apps not requiring much keyboard input other
Hi Deidre,
If I want to move something up that is by default at the bottom or near the
bottom I shouldn't have to move 6 other things down in order to accomplish
this. I hadn't really noticed a problem before either and thought maybe the
people who are having problems aren't doing clean
Wow, I don't understand how a new problem can be created with something that
was working so perfectly well before. I'm even hesitant to do the latest latest
update because I just don't trust the stuff.
Deidre
> On Apr 5, 2016, at 9:48 AM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
>
> Hi
Hi,
Voice Dream Writer has some features that I don't think other iPhone word
processors have, such as the ability to create and navigate by headings, the
ability to navigate by paragraphs, a spell checker that locates the next
misspelled word, and the ability to rearrange headings and all the
I now notice that my rotor settings change at will, unless I don't remember how
it used to work. Does the rotor selection stay the same no matter what
application you are in until you change it manually?
For example, when in contacts if I put it on headings, then close out
contacts
Hi,
Woops! LOL! Embarrassment. This is what happens, when you
type, half asleep. Please, don't! Do it. Yes, I meant disagree.
Sent from a BrailleNote
- Original Message -
From: "Marie"
Hi,
For me it’s not the taking of the picture that’s the issue, for me it’s not
being able to see how the picture turns out and correcting things that need to
be corrected in the view finder already, things like ”did i get a picture at
all or is it just a blank space” and so on.
/Krister
> 5
I like voice dream writer. It is very nice. I know somebody else has already
recommended this.
Jen
Sent from Jennie Facer's iPad Pro!
> On Apr 4, 2016, at 9:48 PM, trahern culver wrote:
>
> Hi all, Please can somebody tell me what is currently the best accessible
>
Try touching the bottom of the screen.
Jen
Sent from Jennie Facer's iPad Pro!
> On Apr 5, 2016, at 10:17 AM, Eva Abbas wrote:
>
> Hello Rajmund,
>
> Thank you for your reply. I am not finding that anymore. It says slide
> down with three fingers for notification centre
I think the rotor does sometimes move from what you had selected, if what you
selected is not available in the app that is now open. For instance, if you are
in some sort of document that is not HTML, and thus does not have headings, the
rotor would move off of headings to something else. Or if
Ok, I will give it a try. Thanks.
> On Apr 5, 2016, at 2:33 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote:
>
> Hi Larry. I haven't tried the Playroom web client on iOS but on the Mac if
> you turn off quick nav you can access the options in the game. I guess that
> could also apply for iOS if
Hi Larry. I haven't tried the Playroom web client on iOS but on the Mac if you
turn off quick nav you can access the options in the game. I guess that could
also apply for iOS if you use a bluetooth keyboard come to think of it.
Shawn
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When you get that slide to set up message, Just double tap.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Apr 5, 2016, at 11:47 AM, Eva Abbas wrote:
>
> Hello listers,
>
> I hope everybody is doing well. I have a problem and I need your help
> please. My iPhone 5S suggested to me to
So I do have a case that is made by speck and when doing the Touch ID the
initial fingerprint is read fine. It's when I try to unlock
My iPhone 6 that the sensor doesn't always capture the fingerprint.
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Hello listers,
I hope everybody is doing well. I have a problem and I need your help
please. My iPhone 5S suggested to me to update to 9.3. I tapped to update.
The screen was showing the apple with a little line probably indecating the
update. I left it for a couple of minutes and
OK then. I guess I will be writing to Winston. I have noticed that with the
change to the new set up, when you're going through a list of titles from book
share, those titles used to have the title and the author read out. Now, it's
just the title. So that might be why the search can't find
Hi, Mary! I have just tried like you to search by author and exactly the same
happened to me. Must be another bug? Harry
> On 5 Apr 2016, at 16:23, Mary Otten wrote:
>
> Before writing to Winston to see if this is by design, I thought I would ask
> her if others are
Hi,
No attacks, please, but, notes. A standard note pad. No special
microsoft ID, nothing to install, its in there by default.
Sent from a BrailleNote
- Original Message -
From: Paul Hunt
Gh:,
Do a bouble tap where it says slide to set up. It doesn't matter if it says it
in a different language. After the double tap, you can follow the instructions
in English.
Hope this hchlp!,
Jenn
Sent from Jennie Facer's iPad Pro!
> On Apr 5, 2016, at 9:47 AM, Eva Abbas
Hello. It's all a matter of choice. The native notes app is fine for short
notes. So are Notepad and Text Edit. I've used them all. I prefer Word for all
of my word processing.
> On Apr 5, 2016, at 10:42 AM, rajmund wrote:
>
> Hi,
> No attacks, please, but, notes. A
Yes, Sieghard, I agree with your observations all the way. I've noticed that
backing out when something looks like it's moved usually fixes things. I'm not
sure if that particular issue is a tracking issue with VO or if it actually has
moved, then fixes itself after getting a little mixed up.
Whew! I finally have things exactly the way I want them on the rotor! Let's all
hope I never have to do another settings reset! That was brutal! I thought
these problems were user error, as well, like others did, but I took a break
from things, and was still having problems when I came back to
If I tap the Sort button and select Author, the library of all items does
rearrange itself, reflecting the alphabetical order of the authors. If I start
typing the author name into the search field, the table of results starts
rearranging itself but is obviously looking for the word as I type
Hi,
I'm one of those fast braillests, people always wonder. I can be
as quick on my 5s, in braille, uncontracted, as some others with
direct touch on an iPad, for instance.
Sent from a BrailleNote
- Original Message -
From: Sieghard Weitzel
Hello,
you'll have to explore by touch till you find it again.
Sent from my iPhone 5S
> On 5 Apr 2016, at 5:17 pm, Eva Abbas wrote:
>
> Hello Rajmund,
>
> Thank you for your reply. I am not finding that anymore. It says slide
> down with three fingers for notification
Before writing to Winston to see if this is by design, I thought I would ask
her if others are experiencing this as well. In voice dream, latest version, if
I try searching all items, I can do that with words, and get titles which
contain those words. However, I cannot find authors whose work I
Hello Rajmund,
Thank you for your reply. I am not finding that anymore. It says slide
down with three fingers for notification centre as usual. I slide down
three fingers, nothing happens. This is annoying.
God bless
Eva
ga...@rogers.com
Your life is God's gift to you
The way you
Hi,
Double tap on slide to set up. Every time it says slide, just
ignore that, and double tap. Unless it says actions available,
or something of the sort.
Sent from a BrailleNote
- Original Message -
From: "Eva Abbas"
hi,
No, you can't adjust the Siri speed, unfortunately. I'd throw it
right up.
Sent from a BrailleNote
- Original Message -
From: Deidre Muccio
Hi,
Actually, interesting. I've attempted to take pictures of my
cat, and send it through an iMessage, if you point the camera at
the right angle, you can achieve something. But, as you say, who
would want to do it? Certainly not me. Still, the option is
there.
Sent from a BrailleNote
LOL I think you meant Disagree, please don't disappear. We would miss you.
Marie
-Original Message-
From: rajmund
Sent: Monday, April 4, 2016 10:46 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Touch ID
hello,have to disappear, it works like a charm on the 5s. remember, use the
same
Judy Dixon has written a book on taking pictures if you're blind called "get
the Picture.
Thanks,
Ari
> On Apr 5, 2016, at 9:08 AM, rajmund wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Actually, interesting. I've attempted to take pictures of my cat, and send
> it through an iMessage, if you
Yes, please write Winston.
I've been corresponding with him about the issue of sorting by author. He seems
to think that "new downloads" show the author. But I have 5 books I downloaded
last week that do not show the author.
I think between version 4 of Voice Dream and whatever changes happened
Hi Dave,
You can turn on the phone, wait a couple of minutes to be sure it's finished
booting up, press Home once to unlock the phone, then press Home three times
quickly to turn on VoiceOver. You can then follow the prompts and set up the
phone. If you are new to iOS devices and need to enter
I received my new SE today and I ‘m wondering if I can turn the phone on, do
the triple click home key for Voice over and do the rest of the set up myself?
I see nothing, so before I even turn it on I would like to know if this is
possible? if not I will wait for sighted help.
Thanks much.
Hi Richard,
I just checked the books I have recently downloaded, and all of them show the
author. Also, I just tried an author search for the last name of an author who
wrote one of the books I downloaded since installing version four. And what do
you know? The book showed up? So I will report
Have any of you re-created your folder systems? I just wonder, because I'm sort
of afraid to do it, knowing that somehow somewhere, the system still must think
I have folders, since my "no folder" list is a far smaller than my "all items"
list it will be a royal pain in the you know what to
Hi I have this on my phone as well.
And I went to open it.
And it says install flexible button.
So I hit on that button and then it brings up something delaing with the
keyboards.
So I hit the back button and it takes me back to the install flexie
button again.
So how do I get this up and
Excellent, Chuck. I'll just say that the Fleksy keyboard has too many things
that can cause it to burp and hopefully they will continue to decrease with
future upgrades. I'm glad you're having some success with it.
Alan
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On
Hello. I just made a comparison between sendero and blindsquare and
blindsquare came out head and shoulders ahead for my needs. I brought up
sendero and got a breadcrumb to my dumpster entered and then routed to it.
I invoked the route and began walking with the screen locked and got not a
peep
Hi Alan,
I finally figured out what my problem was. Some how I turned off direct touch
typing, which I had to access with the rotor.
I am typing this with Fleksy, and I am having a good bit of success.
Chuck (mobile)
Pleez x cuze enny tie ping or spelin air ores.
> On Apr 5, 2016, at 6:49
Hi all.
I have a focus 14 that I use with my iPhone. Sometimes I need to enter my
password or something using the iPhone's keyboard. I turn my display off to get
the keyboard but sometimes it doesn't come up. Anyone know what I can do to fix
this?
Thanks in advance.
Jenifer Barr
Jenifer571
Another alternative: when it says slide to set up, do a three-finger swipe
left to right,while holding the phone in portrait orientation. I am going to
try the double tap next time to see if it works for me. It must not have
worked for me at one time, causing me to try the three-finger swipe
Hi Mary,
Yes, I went ahead and re-created my folders. It wasn't such a big risk for me,
as almost all my items were showing up in the No Folder list and my library
isn't very large. It seems to have worked fine, as far as I can tell.
Today I uploaded some documents into my library using
Interesting about your uploads. By any chance, was the folder into which those
files were uploaded the one that had focus when you open voice dream? I don't
think that should matter. But what do I know?
Mary
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> On Apr 5, 2016, at 4:38 PM, Nicola Sanders
Hi Mary,
I know it has been rolling out slowly but the news release today suggested it
was now available to everyone. In any case, I certainly see your points and
believe they are valid. Still I’m glad this is something that’s on Facebook’s
radar and I love to see the step forward. I certainly
One thing that I find keeps being enabled and disabled is "hints. Now, I know
what * hints are in
the general run of things, but what does it mean when on the rotor?
Jewel
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From:
Hi Mary.
I see your points as well, but it's a step. Hopefully... as was said
before... they will continue to improve this feature. (smile)
Jen
On 4/5/16, Mary Otten wrote:
> Well, I have been seeing this for at least a month, if not more. And it
> works, such as it is. It
Actually, if you have a folder open, new files should go into that folder. That
was by design in 3.7, and according to my brief test, is still the case in 4.
So, if I know I'm downloading a fiction book, I open the fiction folder first,
then download the book. That way I don't have to move it
Thanks for that info re altering Siri's speech speed. I have not hadany reason
to check to see
whether adjusting the speed for voice over had any affect on Siri. I have
brought the vo speed down
from 50% to 47, and it does not sound all that funereal and has made it a lot
easier to make out
I think what we need to keep in mind is this project is still in its infancy.
It may not be all people expect but give them time. At least they are
attempting to include us. With updates of face book they may add more
improvements.
Connie
Sent from my iPhone
> On Apr 5, 2016, at 9:06 PM,
I’ve been reading that Facebook’s artificial intelligence for pictures is
enabled today when using the app on iOS in English. This is so visually
impaired or blind users can identify what objects might be in pictures on
Facebook. Has anyone gotten this to work? I am hearing no difference thus
Hello listers,
Many thanks to each person who helped me with my problem. Was very kind
of you nice folks. To be honest with you, what I did was I went to the
store where I bought the iPhone and the technician there helped me. I
figured I could not do it myself.
Thank you all once more
Sieghard! I am, moderately, au fait with dictating a
message of which I am in control, but your tips on editting will come in very
handy as I did not,
really, know how to do that.
I was experimenting with using Siri as a go-between, but I have only done it a
couple of times so I
will keep
Yes, it is a step. I wish it would be treated as such. I am so tired of hearing
people fall all over themselves as though a miracle just occurred, when this is
really just a step. It is a good step, but only if Moore efforts are made.
That's all I am saying. At this point, it doesn't do much.
Hi Richard,
Yes, you are right, except that in the case that was being discussed, stuff was
being put in from an external device, a computer using iCloud. So how would you
know which folder was open? If there is a way to know that, then I would agree.
Mary
PS I certainly did use the feature just
I assumed, and you know what happens when you assume, that the files would go
into whatever the last folder opened in Voice Dream was.
Since, when you open Voice Dream again it defaults to the last folder opened.
Or, am I truly not understanding.
Richard
(Sent from my iPhone 5S)
> On Apr 5,
Try downloading The Eight, by Katherine Neville.
Or, any book by Katherine Neville.
Or, A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman.
Let me know what you find for authors then.
Richard
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> On Apr 5, 2016, at 2:23 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
>
> Hi Richard,
> I just
hi I seem to have to email messages that have not downloaded completely to my
email app so what I get is a bunch of messages which I can see and then I see
updating just now to unread but the two unread are not there I had this happen
once before and don't remember what I did to fix it if
Well, I have been seeing this for at least a month, if not more. And it works,
such as it is. It will tell you how many people are in the picture, or if it is
outdoors, or, for instance, if it is food, as you might get on a cooking
message board. I know many people are very excited about this,
My word! How were you able to persuade Siri to allow you to dictate a message
of that length, and
so fluently too!
Jewel
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Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 12:46 AM
To:
I found it on my phone tonight. It wasn’t there this morning. If someone takes
a picture of a landscape it can work nicely. If, however the picture is of 3
people it doesn’t work as well. It just tells you there are 3 people in the
picture. It doesn’t differentiate, say the blond from the
Hit or miss so far.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Grant
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 5:13 PM
To: Viphone List
Subject: Facebook artificial intelligence for photos
I’ve been reading that Facebook’s artificial intelligence for pictures is
You are probably right, Richard. I seem to remember though, that if I really
closed voice dream, that is took it out of the app switcher, when I next opened
it, it would open into "all items", rather then the last open folder. Maybe I'm
wrong. In any case, it certainly is opening to whatever
This allows you to toggle on and off voiceOver's speaking of hints. For
example, it was just discussed on this list that some people don't like
hints enabled all of the time, but they do when they're in the in box of
the Mail app, since turning on hints will have VoiceOver read the email
You may be right, but make sure you didn't revert back to using the
compact voice as part of the update.
On 05/04/16 21:45, Eva Abbas wrote:
Hello listers,
I just want to add that Samantha's voice in voiceover became ugly
in this new update. It sounded more human in the previous update.
I guess I'll have to download them again. I just downloaded it and several
others last week and the author does not show up.
A tadbit frustrating, though not as bad as your situation.
Richard
(Sent from my iPhone 5S)
> On Apr 5, 2016, at 7:12 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
>
>
Hello listers,
I just want to add that Samantha's voice in voiceover became ugly in
this new update. It sounded more human in the previous update. It sounds
more computerized in the IOS 9.3. Ugly!
God bless
Eva
ga...@rogers.com
Your life is God's gift to you
The way you live it is
OK, I stand corrected. But, this fix must have been done on Bookshare's side
since I had just downloaded the Katherine Neville books last week and her name
did not show up in the list, but it does now.
Very odd.
So, now to decide how many redownloads I want to do.
Richard
Sent from my iPod 6
Hi Mary,
The problem is not in what you get when you turn the rotor, the bug is when you
go to Voiceover settings > Rotor where you select which items you want to
appear on the rotor and in what order they should be in. If you move things
around, select and deselect items at some point things
Well, the thought of re-downloading all these books is depressing. Don't think
that's going to happen.
Mary
Sent from my iPhone
> On Apr 5, 2016, at 8:00 PM, Richard Turner
> wrote:
>
> OK, I stand corrected. But, this fix must have been done on Bookshare's side
Yes, you can do so by putting your finger on the item and then doing a split
tap, i.e. tap 10 times quickly with a second finger.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Victor Gouveia
Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 7:39 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Hi I am going to unsubscribe from Netflix and Hulu, but I did it through
Itunes so how do I get out?
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I think these are for visual people, since I don’t know the keystrokes for a
great many of these tricks.
Especially the tapping on the tab ten times to empty the cache.
Anyone know how to do this without this keystroke?
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Hi, Everyone.
I needed to take my iPod Touch in to replace it. I backed it up before
doing so. I took the replacement home and needed to update to the
latest IOS before restoring my backup.
I opened Digit-Eyes and can scan all right. But my lists are gone.
I don't mind rescanning to get the
Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Voiceover > Speech and tap on
Default Dialect.
Make sure you select "Samantha Enhanced" and not "Samantha Default". The
default is the lower quality, compact voice. You can also try out SIRI Mal or
SIRI Female and see how you like them.
What voice do group members use with VoiceOver
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I use alex, and the British female Siri voice.
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> On Apr 5, 2016, at 11:27 PM, solaunmarissa2...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> What voice do group members use with VoiceOver
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It’s a bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, it’s great.
/Krister
> 5 apr. 2016 kl. 00:15 skrev Chuck Dean :
>
> Thanks Alan, I found your tutorial with a search of the B iPhone topics. I
> will read it thoroughly, and hopefully I will be able to use
I was having some success with fleksy this afternoon when the keyboard totally
locked up. Now when I touch any key all it says is keyboard, and doesn't do
anything. Which also means that there is no way to get out of the keyboard, the
two finger swipe up and swipe down does nothing. The only
I am using it every day and love it.
/Krister
> 4 apr. 2016 kl. 23:40 skrev englishride...@gmail.com:
>
> Chuck, I can't remember who wrote it, but somebody did a very extensive
> review of Fleksy on this list. I can't remember their suggestions, but I took
> them up on them, and while I
I shouldn’t bother to give any help on this topic since the unanymous vote of
the blind community is that it is useless and those who think differently get
flogged, but here goes: The keyboard can be resized. There are 3 different
sizes of the keyboard and you can select size from the settings.
Hi, on my 6 it was always very inconsistant, especially with my right thumb
which was my main unlocking finger. It did seem better with my left thumb. I
had to type in my pin 40 to 50 percent of the time.
I wonder if it is a 6 issue or if some of the finger print sensors ar a bit
dodgy. I
Go into the phones settings/general/keyboard/keyboards, see if Fleksy has full
access. Sometimes full access turns itself off for some unexplicable reason.
Even if it’s not turned off, turn it off then back on again and see if this
helps.
/Krister
> 5 apr. 2016 kl. 08:46 skrev Chuck Dean
just out of interest, and I don't have an Apple Watch, having used dictation
for a text/email message, can you then edit the result? as we all know,
dictation can work very well for many of us, but does always have errors.
just wondering, Sandy
sent from the dark side of the moon
> On 4 Apr
Carol,
With the latest version of 9.3, which might be 9.31, not sure, I updated my for
S without a Sim card with no hitch. so, I would say to you, update and don't
worry!
Good luck, Sandy
sent from the dark side of the moon
> On 4 Apr 2016, at 14:21, 'Carol Pearson' via VIPhone
>
It's hardly unanimous, and I don't think anyone is being flogged.
Remember, there are something like 1400 members on this list, and I
haven't seen nearly that many people claiming that Fleksy is useless,
and I've seen a few members like yourself trying to help the rest of us
who'd like to use
Hello Trey. I believe that Microsoft Word is the most accessible Word
Processor. I use it for all of my note taking. I take my notes at meetings with
my Brailliant BI 40 display. When I get home my document is waiting for me, no
synchronization required. It's free too.
> On Apr 4, 2016, at
I don't believe that there is a way to configure a draft within gmail to be
sent at a certain time or date.
I believe you can only create a draft and then send it as an email manually
at the time or date that you wish. Regards, Michelle
On Monday, April 4, 2016 at 9:23:54 PM UTC-4, Marissa
Jewel, the done button that you're hearing is what you get after your message
has been sent. I think you're hearing it over and over and over again because
either voiceover is quirky on your phone and or your swiping and that's what
you're hearing because they're only like two things on the
after dictating a message, you are then given the choice to send that message
as audio, or text. You are not given a way to edit the message, but if it is
not correct, then you just double tap cancel and dictate it again.
Now, there are also pre prepared messages in which you can change to
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