Chris; I am having both of these issues with my iPhone 4S, running iOS six. I also tried changing the localization for Siri, for example switching it to the UK voice. I found that I was additionally having the same volume issue that you are having. Related to the notifications, that is very irritating when it occurs. I typically have to have someone repeat themselves when they are speaking to me on the phone.
http://empoweringtheblind.com Empowering the blind, one person at a time. On Jan 3, 2013, at 8:54 PM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, I just bit the bullet today and now have gotten an IPhone 5. God! > Blessid! I love this thing! I do however have one very minor yet extremely > irritating problem, and I didn't know if maybe I forgot to set something, or > maybe if this is actually an IPhone 5 issue. First of all, let's talk about > Siri. One thing I notice is that when she speaks back to me, even though I > have Voiceover at a real comfortable volume, she is extremely quiet on the > Siri side of things. Yes, I did turn it up while she was in the process of > speaking, just like you do to raise the Voiceover volume. That worked, but I > then find that sometimes if I use Siri dictation, when she repeats back what > she's insertting into the text box, it's again really quiet. I'll turn it > back up, but then later after a few times of use, she'll notcher self right > back down. It's totally strange! I don't get it! Yeah, I did power off the > phone and back on just in case of a glitch. I also did quickly quintupple > rapidly do the 5 click press on the sleep button to reset my springboard. > That did no good either. > > The other problem is, say I'm on a call and I get a text message, or say a > Facebook alert etc. Voiceover reads the notification so loudly that it > almost blows my eardrum! The first time it happened, I almost through the > thing across the room as it scared me so badly. (OK, that's being a bit > exagerant, but you get my point.) LOL! The bottom line is, it was > extremely! loud. and I do mean, l'l'l'loud! I mean that sucker, had to be > at least! generously speaking, yet literally speaking, probably 3 or 4 times > louder than the person I was speaking to. As she was reading the > notification, I quickly clicked my volume down button on the left side of the > phone, and I got it where Voiceover was no longer blaring, but at that point, > the person I was talking to was almost inaudible. Could this be because the > setting under settings, sound was set to where the volume buttons effect the > ringer and alerts? I shut that off, as I normally have that off anyway, but > for some odd reason, that setting didn't carry over from my backup's > restoration from my old 4S. I just know that is gonna drive me nuts and make > me deaf in the longrun if I can't figure it out. LOL! Yes, I literally mean > it, it was that? loud! It was insane! The really bizarre thing is, now get > a load a this! on speaker phone? I don't have that problem. voiceover is > pretty much the same exact volume as the party who is on the line. Isn't? > that! weird? Anyway, yeah... I'm at a loss. If anyone has any clue, please! > do tell! Now, I'm really! curious. > > Chris. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
