Hello Lisa, I just read your message and, just in case you are ever in a similar predicament, here are a few observations:
If you have no speech but hear the lock sound and want to unlock your phone, I find it easiest to make sure it's locked simply by waiting well over a minute (that of course only works if your auto lock is set to the default which is 1 minute). Next I press the home key to bring up the lock screen. Now I place my finger on the bottom of the screen just above the home key and to the left. You don't even have to go all the way to the left, about half way between the home key and the left edge is sufficient. Now slide your finger across nice and smooth and not too slow to the right edge and you should hear the sound the iPhone makes when the screen unlocks. You can even practice this with voiceover on and the volume turned up since you can slide to unlock just as easily as you can touch where it says "Slide to Unlock" and then double tap. As for using the 3-finger double tap to turn speech off and on, i.e. muting speech without turning Voiceover off completely, this gesture works just fine even in the lock screen. I just tried it and guarantee it. Once again, just give it a try, press the home key to bring up the lock screen, then do a 3-finger double tap and you'll hear Voiceover say "Speech Off". Do it again and Voiceover will say "Speech On" and you are still in the lock screen. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lisa belville Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 11:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: no voiceover Hi, Rebecca. I had something similar happen to me a few months ago. I wasn't playing a game, I dropped my Bluetooth keyboard and somehow muted speech. I managed to correct the problem. Below is what happened and how I fixed it. At the very least, you can use some of the steps I did to troubleshoot your no speech issue. Here's the Email, hth, Lisa Okay, my issue is resolved. This involved some very frantic and frustrating trouble shooting, but here's what happened in case it happens to anyone else. As far as I can tell, The Screen got locked and speech somehow got muted when I tried picking up and then dropping the keyboard. I deduced this by the fact that I had no sounds at all except for the SIRI tones Plus, I tried the two finger triple tap or triple tap home and neither restored speech. Then, I pressed the power button once and heard the familiar screen unlock sound. I tried unlocking the screen at this point, but this was impossible because I couldn't double tap on the right area of the screen. I was tapping to the left and just above the home button, so I was in the ballpark, but you know. . . Then I tried first summoning SIRI and calling myself. the call went through, just as it would when the screen was locked with VO running. I couldn't end the call with the 2 finger double tap no matter where on the screen I tapped. I had to wait for the phone to end the call. Then I decided to call my voice mail again unlock the phone while the call was in progress. I used SIRI to make the call, then I used the space key on the keyboard to unlock the screen and got to the home screen by pressing the home button twice. Then I unmuted speech with the three finger double tap. Like I said, the simultaneous VO muting and screen locking occurred using a slightly dropped Amazon Basics Bluetooth Keyboard and an iPhone 5. I have no clue what combination of keys needed to be pressed to make this happen, I'm just glad I got it resolved. Lisa I may have had an encounter with the ugly stick, but the whole tree is after you! Lisa Belville [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rebecca Ilniski" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 11:12 PM Subject: no voiceover > Hi all. This evening I was playing dice world and all of a sudden my > phone just stopped talking. Tripple click home didn't do the trick to get > it talking again. I tried setting it up in itunes and even though voice > over is checked still no speech. The three finger double tap didn't do > anything either. Anyone ever have this happen before? if so what did you > do to fix it? I called apple accessibility but since my ninety days are > up each call will cost 19 dollars. > > -- > Rebecca and Zeb > email: [email protected] > facebook: www.facebook.com/rebeccai5 > Zeb's facebook: www.facebook.com/zeb.ilniski > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > 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]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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