Hi, In my viewpoint, Talkback scores way higher than Voice Assistant as experienced on my Samsung J7 Pro device running Android 9.0. Below are some points that you may want to evaluate:
1. Talkback has context menus that Voice Assistant doesn't have. These are Global and Local context menus. a. Global context menu can be opened from anywhere using the gesture Swipe Down followed by Right (L shape) and has options like: i. Read from Top ii. Read from Next Item iii. Repeat/Spell/Copy last utterance iv. Talkback Settings, etc. b. Local context menu can be opened by using the gesture Swipe Up followed by Right. It gives options for navigation by character, word, line, paragraph, etc. Navigation can also be switched across these options easily using Up/Down swipe with a single finger. The same works in Voice Assistant with 3 fingers. 2. Notification panel can be easily accessed using Swipe Right followed by Down *7 shape(, Voice Assistant doesn't have such a functionality or maybe I didn't find it 3. Talkback speaks the Search button when you open WhatsApp while Voice Assistant doesn't. This indicates that Talkback has the functionality to speak the focussed item in a newly opened window. 4. It has Vibration feedback 5. Being integrated with the Android operating system, Talkback works with majority of Android devices whereas Voice Assistant is expected to work with Samsung devices only. Voice Assistant is a good initiative from Samsung released with Android 9 upgrade. It has few features that are missing in Talkback. These are: 1. Shake to Speak - This functionality is removed from recent releases of Talkback. However, it can be easily compensated with Read from Top and Read from Next Item options in the Global context menu. 2. Speak Caller ID - A basic Caller ID speaker that again is removed from Talkback since some time. Several Caller ID speaker apps on the Playstore that have advanced features can be made use of to speak Caller ID. Likely that the experience differs on Android 10. It also matters if you are acquainted with or want to explore the above points on your device. Choose one of the two accessibility apps and share your experience after a week or two. Best Regards, Zujar. -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia <accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in> On Behalf Of Aravind Aralaguppe Sent: 22 March 2020 06:07 PM To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Subject: Re: [AI] voice assistance or talkback? Hi i recommend voice assistent, recently i have setup the new samsung m31 mobile for my friend ofter upgrading to android 10 voice assistent is completely developed . you can have talkback as stand by start using voice assistent from the beginning On 3/20/20, bhawani shankar verma <mailto:bsvermad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please recommend based on experience, not on knowledge. > > On Fri, 20 Mar 2020, 6:08 pm pranayarani, <mailto:pranayara...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> as per my knowledge, voice assistant is beter than the latest version >> of talkback. You shouldn't use both at the same time. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "bhawani shankar verma" <mailto:bsvermad...@gmail.com> >> To: "access" <mailto:accessindia@accessindia.org.in> >> Sent: 20 March, 2020 5:30 PM >> Subject: [AI] voice assistance or talkback? >> >> >> > hello accessindia! >> > >> > I am currently using samsung m30 phone with talkback. There is >> > voice assistant built in it. 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