Well, about Samantha, Apple can't be blamed. It is a Neuance problem. Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 22, 2015, at 4:30 PM, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > Well, last night, I finally installed iOS 9.1 on my 6 Plus. > > For me, there are no proverbial show-stoppers. > > 1. > However, given that I have been in an ongoing dialog with Apple engineers, I > am a little disappointed that the camera app zoom VoiceOver bug still > persist. However, on a positive note, at least, enabling VoiceOver, after > zooming in on an image, no longer cancels the zoom. Baby steps, eh? > (smile). > > 2. > I am surprised at how much I miss having the time announced when waking the > phone. > > 3. > Perhaps it's just me but I swear the quality of Samantha has been greatly > degraded in this version. I just don't understand why, with every major > release since iOS 6.x, the quality of Samantha has been steadily declining. > Of course, this is just my opinion. What I do find interesting is that > Samantha's pronunciation of words that were absolutely correct in iOS 8, has > been changed and are now incorrect in iOS 9.1. > > In iOS 8.x, I found the high quality version of the Samantha voice somewhat > pleasant, in iOS 9.x, I find it unsettling, to say the least. I cannot > imagine having the current Samantha voice reading long stretches of texts, > whereas in the previous iOS, this would not have even been at issue. Is > Apple trying to force everyone to Alex? (Yes, a conspiracy theory). > (Smile). > > 4. > Also, the SMS Reply To dictation feedback problem is very, very annoying. > > For those who disagree, let me say that I respect your opinion. Also, the > feedback is not much of a problem if one dictates using either a Bluetooth > or wired headset. I suppose it is not much of an issue if one only dictates > 1 or 2 words. However, if one attempts to dictate a full sentence, then the > feedback becomes problematic as a kind of feedback loop ensues causing a > great deal of random text to be inserted as Siri, hearing VoiceOver, begins > to dictate to itself. > > 5. > I know this comes up every time a new OS is released but it seems to me as > though my battery drains faster since updating from 8.x to 9.1. I just > turned off a lot of items that were active in the background app refresh > area so I'll see how it goes. However, I can tell you that I updated a > total of three 6 plus phones, yesterday, two from iOS 9.0.2. Now, even > though both of those two phones that were already running 9.x, were plugged > into an outlet at the time of the update, via OTA, both had less charge > after updating than they did, before the update began. I've never seen such > a thing before. > > 6. > As always, I have sent my findings to Apple. > > 7. > Finally, and I want to be clear on this: Updating the OS OTA (over-the-air) > is in no way the same as installing it from iTunes via a USB cable. For > whatever reason, there does seem to be a pattern of more problems when going > from iOS 8.x to 9.x via OTA. > > What is the difference between the OTA method and the iTunes method? In > short, updating OTA does not rewrite the file allocation table and file > structures, just for starters. When you update via iTunes, it is as if you > are doing a fresh install as all of the file tables and data clusters are > actually rewritten to the disk.. > > Want proof of this? No problem, here's how to verify the difference. When > you use the OTA method, you will notice that any custom keyboard shortcuts > you may have added remain, after the update. However, when you update via > iTunes, you will discover that only default keyboard shortcuts exist, > meaning you will have to rewrite your custom keyboard shortcuts. > > I wish I could lay claim to having learned about the difference between the > two methods, independently but I was told of the difference by a senior > Apple iOS design engineer. > > I'll be honest, I have not used the iTunes method since the OTA option > became available but now that I have had several of my recent syncing > problems resolved after having used the iTunes method, I'll probably use it > from now on, when possible. > > Mark > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
