Turning speech off is useful for braille users, and those times where you don't want Voiceover to say anything at all, like when using Speak Screen to read a book or article. Devin Pratersent from Gmail.
On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 7:56 PM Carolyn Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: > I know there must be some reason for having both, but I do wonder why it > is not all-in-one - Speech and voice Over. > > Best regards, > > Carolyn > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Richard Turner > Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2019 6:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Screen curtain and battery? > > > If VoiceOver is on but speech is off, you might hear clicks when touching > the screen; but you would still have to use VoiceOver gestures to do > anything. > It is pointless unless you just want to keep VoiceOver silent; so it > doesn't announce things etc. > And, about screen curtain; it has been shown that if you leave screen > curtain on for a little while; the screen brightness is turned to zero. So, > if dimming the screen saves battery; so does screen curtain. > Richard > > > > The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't > have any." -- Alice Walker > > > > > > On Feb 10, 2019, at 2:37 PM, Holly <[email protected] <mailto: > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > > If you are using voice over and it is reading something on the > screen, if you want to stop voice over talking for a minute to do > something, you can do a two finger single tap to stop speech, then a two > finger single tap to start it speaking again. Alternatively, you can turn > off speech altogether by doing a three finger double tap , then start it > again the same way with a three finger double tap. > > I am not sure when you would use this feature, as voice over will > still be on in both cases. > > Siri will say 'speech off' after the three finger double tap, and > 'speech on' when you do the three finger double tap again. > > Holly > -- > 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]> . 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