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> On Aug 6, 2018, at 5:39 PM, <llump...@austin.rr.com> <llump...@austin.rr.com> > wrote: > > We have a roku ultra box and the voice on it is a fairly nice female. He > voice on the tv is male and rather like an irish darth vader but I don’t > have to like it as long as it gets the job done. > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Mary > Otten > Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 12:40 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: My apple TV needs an accessible tv set. > > Is the voice on that TV the same as the one on the Roku stick? We have one of > those, and I actually found a voice almost not understandable. I’ve been > using speech synthesizers for a long time, all the way back to dos. So it’s a > great mystery to me why these folks who make these TV boxes accessible can’t > find a way to give us a voice that’s really clear. Amazon wins hands-down in > my opinion in that regard. Just like with the Roku TV, switching ports is > totally accessible on the Amazon one, and you can also named him whatever you > want, which I didn’t bother doing. You also have voice control of the TV, > including turning it off and on, switching ports, launching movies or apps > whatever. The Amazon TV is more expensive than that Roku. So if you’re > satisfied with the voice, it sounds like it could be a good way to go. I just > couldn’t get past the voice if it’s the same as the one on stick that we have. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 6, 2018, at 8:46 AM, <llump...@austin.rr.com> <llump...@austin.rr.com> > wrote: > > I do have one and love it. It is an Insignia in25 roku tv from best buy. It > only cost around $150. They have bigger ones but this one meets my needs > perfectly. The > Spectrum roku app is very accessible as is tunein. The text-to-speech voice > isn’t real great but works for me fine. It has 3 hdmi ports and a fiber-optic > out for running sound bars or our Yamaha receiver which has fiberoptic ports. > It has a composit or component port (I can’t keep the two straight). I like > the set-up very much. > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Fred > Olver > Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 10:43 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: My apple TV needs an accessible tv set. > > I have an Apple TV and i want to pair it with an accessible TV. If you have > one and are extremely pleased with it I would like to know about it so I can > get one too. > > Fred Olver > Fred Olver > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fred.olver > Skype: Fred.olver1 > For more information about my book which is available in accessible formats > go to: http://www.dealingwithvisionloss.com also available as a kindel > download from amazon. > -- > 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: > mk...@ucla.edu. 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Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.On Main Menu this > week, Steve Matzura does a tutorial on setting up the Amazon Toshiba Fire TV. > I priced this TV at around $400. The voice seems really good and, from his description, a lot of the TV seems to be very accessible. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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