Re: Voice Speed Slow but Showing at 100%

[Chris Chaffin]

Go to settings / General / Accessibility / voice over.
As you swipe down the screen you will find, speaking rate.  This is where you 
adjust the speech rate of voice over.

Merry Xmas, and hope this helps,

Chris


> On Dec 23, 2017, at 1:50 PM,  
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>  
> My voice speed sounds really slow but when I go to Settings / General / 
> Accessibility / Speech, it shows 100%.  I tried lowering it & putting it back 
> up to 100% but I don’t notice any change.  Is there somewhere else I can 
> reset the voice speed. 
>  
> Thanks,
> Sherry Wells
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Voice Speed Slow but Showing at 100%

[sherrywells1157]

Hi all,

 

My voice speed sounds really slow but when I go to Settings / General /
Accessibility / Speech, it shows 100%.  I tried lowering it & putting it
back up to 100% but I don't notice any change.  Is there somewhere else I
can reset the voice speed.  

 

Thanks,

Sherry Wells



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RE: Attention to people with RP

[Sieghard Weitzel]

It would be out of reach of most people in countries without health insurance 
and where there are no other funding options.
What do you think heart surgery costs or even the surgeries and care somebody 
requires after a serious accident?
Recently there was a case here in Canada (Vancouver to be exact) where a 
23-year old young lady developed "AHUS" (atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome). 
This disease affects only 1 in a Million people and while based on this 
statistic and Canada's population less than 40 people in Canada should have it, 
the number in fact is apparently about 150. In any case, there is a medication 
which helps people with this disease, but here in Canada this medication costs 
$750,000 a year. Yes, I did not mistype the zeros, just over $2,000 a day.
The story went on to say that while some health plans in some of the canadian 
provinces cover this outrageous amount, the British Columbia medical plan is 
not one of them, but inside less than 2 weeks after the story published, a 
follow-up story was published which said that in BC such expensive medication 
can be provided on a case by case bases and the young student was approved to 
get it.
If a young person with RP can be actually cured with this gene treatmenrt and 
be prevented from becoming blind the economic benefits and potential long-term 
costs probably far outweigh the 1 Million Dollar price tag.

Regards,
sieghard

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Mohib Anwar Rafay
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2017 8:43 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Attention to people with RP

1 million? It would be out of reach of a person!

On 12/22/17, Dulce Muccio Weisenborn  wrote:
> NPR said perhaps one million for both eyes.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On 
> Behalf Of Mohib Anwar Rafay
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2017 1:13 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Attention to people with RP
>
> just wondering what will be the expensis incurred for this treatment?
>
> On 12/21/17, Marie  wrote:
>> I am including some information I received yesterday concerning a 
>> gene therapy treatment which has been approved by the FDA for people 
>> with Retinitis Pigmentosa. I am sending it to all the lists I 
>> currently belong to because it needs to get to as many RP sufferers 
>> as possible.
>> Marie
>> Foundation Fighting Blindness Celebrates Historic FDA Approval of
>>
>> First Gene Therapy to Treat Blindness
>>
>> Foundation’s early investment in LUXTURNA™ boosts vision-restoring 
>> treatment for people with RPE65 mutations and will help advance other 
>> gene therapies currently in development.
>>
>> (Columbia, MD) — Today’s U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 
>> approval of voretigene neparvovec, to be marketed as LUXTURNA, will 
>> be life-changing for patients with vision loss due to mutations in 
>> the RPE65 gene and a watershed moment for the inherited retinal 
>> disease field, says the Foundation Fighting Blindness. The Foundation 
>> was an important early investor in LUXTURNA, providing $10 million in 
>> critical seed funding for the therapy.
>>
>> The groundbreaking treatment is the first gene therapy for the eye 
>> and for any inherited disease to be approved by the FDA. The 
>> treatment restores vision by delivering working copies of the RPE65 
>> gene directly into the retina, thereby compensating for the 
>> nonfunctional, mutated genes.
>>
>> “We are thrilled for the patients whose lives will change 
>> dramatically because of this treatment,” says David Brint, Foundation 
>> Fighting Blindness chairman. “We are also pleased to have this 
>> concrete example of the strength of the Foundation’s strategy of 
>> identifying and investing early in promising treatments. Doing so 
>> helps attract industry investment that can usher promising treatments 
>> through clinical trials and ultimately FDA approval.”
>>
>> LUXTURNA is the result of more than two decades of research and 
>> development at the University of Florida, the University of 
>> Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Spark 
>> Therapeutics. The Foundation Fighting Blindness’ seed investment 
>> allowed researchers to take the therapy through the early 
>> investigational stages critical to any treatment development.
>>
>> “LUXTURNA will be life-changing for people with an inherited retinal 
>> disease caused by RPE65 mutations. For them, the treatment means 
>> alife of independence. Also important is the momentum this approval 
>> provides to other gene-based therapies — for the eye and other 
>> diseases — now in the clinic,”
>> says Benjamin Yerxa, PhD, Foundation CEO.
>>
>> An additional noteworthy milestone is the demonstrated value of a new 
>> clinical endpoint devised by the Spark Therapeutics team to measure 
>> LUXTURNA’s impact. The 

Re: Just got my FaceTime issue case number

[Kathy Brandt]

I have heard further from Apple about this: apparently it has been an issue 
since iOS 10. They have escalated it. Meanwhile, the workaround is to turn 
voiceover off, tell Siri I want to do a FaceTime audio call, then turn 
voiceover on while it’s still ringing, before the person answers; I have my 
controls back then.
> On Dec 23, 2017, at 8:33 AM, rajmund .  wrote:
> 
> hi,
> this must be something specific to the iPod, I can'd replicate on an iPad, or 
> an iPhone.
> 
>> On 12/12/17 3:07 PM, Kathy Brandt wrote:
>> 100377527297 
>> 
>>  This was concerning how, with iOS 11 update, for FaceTime audio in order to 
>> use the screen controls, you have to plug in headphones; is like blank 
>> locked screen otherwise. Was most disconcerting when I dealt with this for 
>> the first time.
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Re: Just got my FaceTime issue case number

[rajmund .]

hi,
this must be something specific to the iPod, I can'd replicate on an 
iPad, or an iPhone.


On 12/12/17 3:07 PM, Kathy Brandt wrote:
100377527297 
 



This was concerning how, with iOS 11 update, for FaceTime audio in order 
to use the screen controls, you have to plug in headphones; is like 
blank locked screen otherwise. Was most disconcerting when I dealt with 
this for the first time.


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Re: Apple admits it slows older iPhones -- to prevent battery issues - CNET

[lenron brown]

When your battery gets to that point there should be some sort of
notification. So that you would know hey it might be a good time to
replace that battery because of speed issues. Not oh nothing just my
phone slows down and I keep on trying to use the thing until I get
annoyed and upgrade. Apple is out for apple this is fact.

On 12/21/17, Sieghard Weitzel  wrote:
> That will never happen and probably is not possible given how much stuff is
> packed into such a relatively small device which people by now also expect
> to be for the most part waterproof. In any case, I always hated it when I
> had the old phpones and the thing dropped and next thing battery cover,
> battery and phone went flying all in differewnt directions. If $79 is all
> Apple charges for a battery replacement then I consider to be a pretty good
> deal, I remember back in the days when one could buy an additional battery
> for their cell phone that I'd spend $40 or $50 for just the battery.
>
>
> Regards,
> Sieghard
>
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
> Of Mike Arrigo
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 6:42 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Apple admits it slows older iPhones -- to prevent battery
> issues - CNET
>
> One reason among others why they should make the battery user replaceable.
> Original message:
>> Apple admits it slows older iPhones -- to prevent battery issues
>
>> The company says the practice deals with problems -- like unexpected
>> shutdowns -- caused by aging batteries or cold conditions.
>> December 20, 2017 1:19 PM PST
>
>> Apple's iPhone 6 from 2014 includes software that makes it run slower
>> but also prevents unexpected shutdowns.
>> CNET
>
>> If you think your older iPhone seems to run slower, you're not crazy.
>> Apple on Wednesday said a software feature it released last year makes
>> your phone operate more slowly. But the slowdown is designed to help
>> offset problems with the aging lithium ion battery in your device. As
>> batteries get older, they don't hold their charges as well as newer
>> batteries, and have even worse problems when the charge is lower or the
>> temperature is colder.
>
>> The aging battery means your phone could have trouble operating or
>> might unexpectedly shut down, like happened to the iPhone 6 and 6S
>> last year. The processors in those devices wanted to hit faster
>> speeds, but the batteries couldn't handle it, prompting some phones to
>> simply switch themselves off.
>
>> To address that, Apple's iOS software, starting with last year's iOS
>> 10.2.1, included better power management capabilities. It will slow
>> down your device to prevent it from shutting down, but only in cases
>> of cold temperature, a low battery charge or very old batteries.
>
>> Last year's software applied to the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, 6S and 6S
>> Plus and SE. This year's iOS 11.2 extended the feature to the iPhone 7
>> and 7 Plus. It will be applied to other Apple devices in the future.
>> Apple said in a statement:
>> "Our goal is to deliver the best experience for customers, which
>> includes overall performance and prolonging the life of their devices.
>> Lithium-ion batteries become less capable of supplying peak current
>> demands when in cold conditions, have a low battery charge or as they
>> age over time, which can result in the device unexpectedly shutting
>> down to protect its electronic components.
>
>> Last year we released a feature for iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and iPhone SE
>> to smooth out the instantaneous peaks only when needed to prevent the
>> device from unexpectedly shutting down during these conditions. We've
>> now extended that feature to iPhone 7 with iOS 11.2, and plan to add
>> support for other products in the future."
>
>> The comment from Apple came in response to a report from earlier this
>> week from Primate Labs, the company behind the Geekbench processor
>> benchmarking software. John Poole, founder of the organization, said
>> in a blog post that as iPhone batteries get older and lose capacity,
>> their processors slow down, decreasing performance. Poole explained
>> that users expect their phones to perform the same regardless of how
>> old the battery is, but his tests indicated that wasn't the case.
>
>> iPhone users have long complained about their devices seeming to slow
>> down when new models are released. Some even believe that it's an
>> effort by Apple (and other tech companies) to purposely slow down or
>> otherwise hamper the performance of their products to get users to buy
>> new models. Apple has long denied this claim.
>
>> For some people, the solution to a slower, older iPhone may be
>> updating its battery instead of purchasing a brand new device. Apple
>> charges $79 to replace the battery of an iPhone that's no longer covered
>> by a warranty.
>
>> Original Article at:
>>