Hi, The only way I know to turn on the speaking bar or turn it off for good is to go to settings/General/Accessibility/Speech and use the Speak Screen toggle. The speak screen feature can be useful for reading books in iBooks with the screen locked, but the speaking bar can definitely get in the way the rest of the time.
If Speak Screen is on, you can start reading the screen with the controls on the speaking bar or ask Siri to read the screen. If you're in iBooks at the time, you can lock the screen once the page starts reading. Use the speech screen in Accessibility Settings to set the voice and speaking rate for this feature. Best, Anna > On Mar 28, 2017, at 10:35 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Never heard about it. Can you explain more what happened when you did > whatever you did? > <> > From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf > Of R Van Lant > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 7:35 AM > To: 'viphone List ([email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>)' <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Speaking bar > > I accidentally did some gesture that enabled the speak screen bar or > something like that on my phone. I just rebooted my phone and that seems to > have cleared it for now, but I don’t know what I did to accidentally enable > it and/or what people use it for. Any comments for me on this? > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:viphone@googlegroupscom>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone > <https://groups.google.com/group/viphone>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
