Hi,
I don't have a bluetooth earpiece, but I do use ear buds or my Apple earpods
when I'm in a noisy place or want some privacy. Otherwise, I just crank the
thing up, let it say what it wants to say and go on about my business. I
don't worry too much about what people think about the VoiceOver chatter.
It's been my experience so far that if anybody's curious about it, I'll be
happy to answer any questions, or, if anyone's bothered by it I'll use the
earbuds.
Tom
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From: "Christopher Chaltain" <chalt...@gmail.com>
To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover
I usually just use my Apple ear buds, but occasionally I'll just crank up
the volume of my iPhone and use the built in speakers. I usually use the
ear bugs to help me hear VoiceOver better or so as just not to distract
those around me. I very seldom worry about privacy, since I'm usually not
doing something terribly private when I'm in public, and between the speech
rate and jumping around on the screen, I don't figure too many people
around me are going to pick up much. If I'm in a particularly loud place,
and I don't need to worry too much about hearing something in my
surroundings, I will pull out some 3rd party in the ear buds I have which
provide a lot more passive noise cancellation than you get from just the
Apple ear buds.
On 05/24/2013 11:13 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
Hi Brice,
As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one
solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is
charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of
typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look
like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't
like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual
keyboard
even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to
have
it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all
that healthy.
I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even
lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I
am
and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it
has
the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my
neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap
them
around my hand and put them in my pocket.
In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your
phone
a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally
wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might
type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what
you
are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a
headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that
you
can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in.
Regards,
Sieghard
-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf
Of Brice Smith
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Listening to Voiceover
Hi,
I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're
out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the
speech down low and do your best?
In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones.
If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without
everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes
I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I
can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really
odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or
earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge
and keep track of.
What works for you?
Brice
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