Jewel Yes, you can use the rotor within iAssociates to switch between characters or words when you flick up & down. I do this when I am unsure what voiceovers garbled speech has read. I swear at times voiceover sounds like she is talking with a mouthfull of food!
Donna > > Donna! repeatedly changing the rotor from characters to words and back again > sounds worse than > guessing if that word was dam or dan, was that letter b or v. > Having said that, can I alter the rotor settings while in iAssociate, or do I > have to go to settings > and all that jazz? > If I have made an error in my hearing of a letter, I become aware of it > pretty quickly. > If the answer is a very long word, or a series or words, to save myself a bit > of typing, I will > dictate my answer and, it is, very, rare for Samantha to mishear what I have > said, but occasionally, > when she does, it can be quite amusing. > For instance, one answer that I was entering, recently, was "banana split" > but what Samantha heard > was "I wanna split". I said: "not now: perhaps later!" > > I don't have any quibble with voice-over saying street when she sees s t or > company when she sees c > o, but when I dictate blood pressure or horse power, that is what she should > enter, not b p or h p. > I wonder how voice over and her/his pal Siri work? Is there a crowd of tiny > flat people all > squeezed up in my iPhone. There must be! There can't be any other > explanation! > > Jewel > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Donna" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 3:25 PM > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: A problem that has just started today > > Jewel > > Think of the iPhone rotor as the oven temperature knob on your stove. If you > want your oven set to > 350 to cook a cassorole & the cooking instructions say cook the cassorole at > 275 for the last 15 > minutes of cooking. You would adjust the oven temperature knob as needed when > needed. > > The same concept when using the rotor on your iPhone or other iDevice. When > playing iAssociates you > can read each clue by character, word or line. And you can switch between > each rotor setting as > needed. The way you know which is chosen when changing the rotor; the when > voiceover says words this > is how voiceover will read items on the screen to you, word by word, when you > flick up & down. When > you turn the rotor & voiceover says characters. When you flick voiceover will > read what is on the > screen character by character. > > I hope this makes sense & is helpful in aiding you in playing iAssociates > more productively. > > Donna >> >> The problem has been rectified, but, to be honest, I don't know why or how. >> The rotor settings >> still look the same as they always have: well I think that they always have >> looked this way since >> the last time I screwed it: that is: both characters and words are marked >> as being "selected" >> but >> there is no "selected" within a bull's bellow of containers. >> As I said, both words and characters are marked as "selected" on the rotor, >> but, before this >> problem >> raised its ugly head, when I flicked across the top of the screen, VO was >> reading out the question >> and clue letter by letter; however, she is now reading it word by word, >> which is just fine being >> a >> lot less time-consuming, but there are occasions when I would like to be >> able to switch to >> characters just to check. >> As both modes, words and characters, are selected on the rotor, is there a >> method wherein I can >> flick from words to characters and back again? >> >> Jewel >> . -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Donna" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2017 3:49 PM >> To: <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: A problem that has just started today >> >> Jewel >> >> Go to Settings, General, Accessibility, Voiceover, swipe down to Rotor & tap >> to open. swipe down >> to >> Containers. 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