I also agree with these two posts

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> On May 29, 2016, at 8:54 PM, Shawn Krasniuk <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> I agree with you Sieghard. Ever since I got my first iPhone, I found it weird 
> that the iPhone doesn't have a feature to speak time automatically without a 
> third party app and that the Mac doesn't need a third party app to speak the 
> time. That sounds like the fragmentation that that Robin always talks about. 
> Another example of that kind of thing is that the Mac doesn't have language 
> detection and the iPhone does. Hopefully in OS X 10.12 they address that 
> issue. But back to iOS, perhaps more of us should write to Apple to make it a 
> feature request for iOS 10. I'm sure they'll listen if everyone barks about 
> it to them.
> 
> Shawn
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>> On May 29, 2016, at 2:33 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> This is another function where I don't understand why Apple hasn't long 
>> since redone their own clock app to allow for automatic time announcements.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
>> Of Gary Bowers
>> Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2016 12:23 PM
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: RE:
>> 
>> Hi Chris,
>> 
>> You wrote, in part:
>> 
>> quote"if you set the time signal interval to be less than 30 minutes, it 
>> will only announce up to 64 times, then you must restart the app in order 
>> for it to speak again."end of quote
>> 
>> This is true if you have Voice Over Clock announce the time continuously for 
>> 24 hours. I set mine to announce the time every 15 minutes between 6:00 AM 
>> and 9:00 PM without having to restart the app.
>> 
>> I really like this app! 
>> 
>> Gary in Texas
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf 
>> Of christopher hallsworth
>> Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2016 1:31 PM
>> To: Viphone
>> Subject: Re:
>> 
>> Qoo was good in my personal experience, however it would quit working for no 
>> reason at all. Now I use Voice Over Clock and it works well. It’s completely 
>> free and the simple user interface is fully accessible. There are some 
>> caveats though. For example if you set the time signal interval to be less 
>> than 30 minutes, it will only announce up to 64 times, then you must restart 
>> the app in order for it to speak again. But this to me is a minor 
>> inconvenience and it wouldn’t deter me from either using the app or 
>> recommending it to others.
>>> On 29 May 2016, at 15:50, MamaPeach <mamape...@charter.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have an app that I use that either can make a sound on the hour or half 
>>> hour or the time can be spoken. It is called ckrono.qoo – the cuckoo on 
>>> your phone! and the developer is IIS New Media Labs
>>> 
>>> From: Tom Rash
>>> Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2016 9:09 AM
>>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to have Voice Over on the iPhone announce the time at the 
>>> top of the hour?
>>> 
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