RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

[CJ & AA MAY]

I'm glad this topic has come up. I have a Google Home, which is similar to the 
Amazon Alexa, and I thought I might be able to play my music and Audible books 
using our Google Home via blue tooth, but the speaker isn't showing up on the 
options in the Blue Tooth app. Does this mean I can't use the speaker in this 
way?
Alison


-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Simon A 
Fogarty
Sent: 07 January 2022 01:38
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

Yeah it's great,

 Sync my books or music to it and siri pretty much does what I ask 

Great at night for listening to audio books I can get siri to set a sleep timer 
and it shuts down automagically 

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Cris Ali
Sent: Friday, 7 January 2022 12:44 pm
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

While you are at the subject of bluetooth speakers, have any of you used the 
apple home pod mini? What do you think of it, and how does it compare to other 
bluetooth speakers?
Cheers

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 6, 2022, at 5:59 PM, Woody Anna Dresner  wrote:
> 
> Hi Rani,
> 
> Find your speakers in Bluetooth Settings. flick up or down until you get to 
> More Info, and double-tap. There should be an item called Device Type. Select 
> that, and then choose Speaker. After that, at least most of the time, 
> VoiceOVer should come out of your phone, while music comes out of the speaker.
> 
> Best,
> Anna
>> On Jan 6, 2022, at 3:46 PM, Rami Ahmad  wrote:
>> 
>> hi, i want to get a bluetooth speaker, that enables me to send all iphone 
>> sounds to it while still listening to voiceover speech through the iphone 
>> speakers. There is a rotor item called ′audio distination′ that controls 
>> where voiceover speech will be heard, but i can't find this option when i 
>> connect my trebet xSound bluetooth speaker. My friend has a sony speaker and 
>> gets this rotor option when he connects it, so what are the speakers that 
>> support this functionality? Is there a certain protocol that i should look 
>> for when buying a speaker so that i can get this feature of separating 
>> audio? 
>> Your help will be appreciated. 
>> 
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Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

[Joshua Hendrickson]

The google home doesn't work any more with bluetooth.  I bought myself
a fourth generation echo and it works so much better with bluetooth.
I can listen to audible books from the audible app on my phone, and
things like audio dramas sound very good through my echo.  The
problems the google home has with bluetooth, is one reason why I
bought my fourth generation echo.  I also got a great deal on it.  It
was originally $100 and I got it for $60.  The sound on my echo is
great as well.

On 1/7/22, CJ & AA MAY  wrote:
> I'm glad this topic has come up. I have a Google Home, which is similar to
> the Amazon Alexa, and I thought I might be able to play my music and Audible
> books using our Google Home via blue tooth, but the speaker isn't showing up
> on the options in the Blue Tooth app. Does this mean I can't use the speaker
> in this way?
> Alison
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Simon
> A Fogarty
> Sent: 07 January 2022 01:38
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
>
> Yeah it's great,
>
>  Sync my books or music to it and siri pretty much does what I ask
>
> Great at night for listening to audio books I can get siri to set a sleep
> timer and it shuts down automagically
>
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Cris
> Ali
> Sent: Friday, 7 January 2022 12:44 pm
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
>
> While you are at the subject of bluetooth speakers, have any of you used the
> apple home pod mini? What do you think of it, and how does it compare to
> other bluetooth speakers?
> Cheers
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jan 6, 2022, at 5:59 PM, Woody Anna Dresner  wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rani,
>>
>> Find your speakers in Bluetooth Settings. flick up or down until you get
>> to More Info, and double-tap. There should be an item called Device Type.
>> Select that, and then choose Speaker. After that, at least most of the
>> time, VoiceOVer should come out of your phone, while music comes out of
>> the speaker.
>>
>> Best,
>> Anna
>>> On Jan 6, 2022, at 3:46 PM, Rami Ahmad  wrote:
>>>
>>> hi, i want to get a bluetooth speaker, that enables me to send all iphone
>>> sounds to it while still listening to voiceover speech through the iphone
>>> speakers. There is a rotor item called ′audio distination′ that controls
>>> where voiceover speech will be heard, but i can't find this option when i
>>> connect my trebet xSound bluetooth speaker. My friend has a sony speaker
>>> and gets this rotor option when he connects it, so what are the speakers
>>> that support this functionality? Is there a certain protocol that i
>>> should look for when buying a speaker so that i can get this feature of
>>> separating audio?
>>> Your help will be appreciated.
>>>
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iPad in portrait or landscape

[Dean Martineau]

I have acquired an iPad, mostly for learning it so as to be able to
instruct others. With the iPhone I've always preferred locking orientation
to portrait, and haven't found a reason to use landscape. I'm open to other
viewpoints on orientation preferences and advantages for the iPhone, but
I'm especially wondering if there are sound reasons to keep the iPad in
landscape orientation, or use it that way in some circumstances. So I would
appreciate any experienced views..

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Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:

[Don Breda]

Hi listers,


I wanted to add a speaker to a group I previously created in the Alexa 
app a long time ago.



I found I was unable to do that.


When going to the devices tab I now get a screen that says introducing 
favorites and I can't find a way to get rid of it or do anying with it 
at all.



This prevents me from working with my devices and speaker groups.


Has anyone found a way around this?


I did try the pass through gesture with no luck and the amazon website 
doesn't have the alexa control interface as it used to.



Any suggestions appreciated.


Don


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RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

[CJ & AA MAY]

What A shame. In general, I'm very happy with our Google Home Speaker.
Alison
 

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Joshua 
Hendrickson
Sent: 07 January 2022 10:13
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

The google home doesn't work any more with bluetooth.  I bought myself a fourth 
generation echo and it works so much better with bluetooth.
I can listen to audible books from the audible app on my phone, and things like 
audio dramas sound very good through my echo.  The problems the google home has 
with bluetooth, is one reason why I bought my fourth generation echo.  I also 
got a great deal on it.  It was originally $100 and I got it for $60.  The 
sound on my echo is great as well.

On 1/7/22, CJ & AA MAY  wrote:
> I'm glad this topic has come up. I have a Google Home, which is 
> similar to the Amazon Alexa, and I thought I might be able to play my 
> music and Audible books using our Google Home via blue tooth, but the 
> speaker isn't showing up on the options in the Blue Tooth app. Does 
> this mean I can't use the speaker in this way?
> Alison
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> Simon A Fogarty
> Sent: 07 January 2022 01:38
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
>
> Yeah it's great,
>
>  Sync my books or music to it and siri pretty much does what I ask
>
> Great at night for listening to audio books I can get siri to set a 
> sleep timer and it shuts down automagically
>
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> Cris Ali
> Sent: Friday, 7 January 2022 12:44 pm
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
>
> While you are at the subject of bluetooth speakers, have any of you 
> used the apple home pod mini? What do you think of it, and how does it 
> compare to other bluetooth speakers?
> Cheers
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jan 6, 2022, at 5:59 PM, Woody Anna Dresner  wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rani,
>>
>> Find your speakers in Bluetooth Settings. flick up or down until you 
>> get to More Info, and double-tap. There should be an item called Device Type.
>> Select that, and then choose Speaker. After that, at least most of 
>> the time, VoiceOVer should come out of your phone, while music comes 
>> out of the speaker.
>>
>> Best,
>> Anna
>>> On Jan 6, 2022, at 3:46 PM, Rami Ahmad  wrote:
>>>
>>> hi, i want to get a bluetooth speaker, that enables me to send all 
>>> iphone sounds to it while still listening to voiceover speech 
>>> through the iphone speakers. There is a rotor item called ′audio 
>>> distination′ that controls where voiceover speech will be heard, but 
>>> i can't find this option when i connect my trebet xSound bluetooth 
>>> speaker. My friend has a sony speaker and gets this rotor option 
>>> when he connects it, so what are the speakers that support this 
>>> functionality? Is there a certain protocol that i should look for 
>>> when buying a speaker so that i can get this feature of separating audio?
>>> Your help will be appreciated.
>>>
>>>
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Re: iPad in portrait or landscape

[Thom Spittle]

I Dean, 
The only observations I have are more with your students more than you. If your 
student is low vision, they may like the larger size of youtube videos when in 
landscape mode. Otherwise, the only difference I see is that the keyboard has 
larger keys in landscape mode, which some user like better.

Looking forward to hearig other people’s opinions.

Thom

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 7, 2022, at 6:23 AM, Dean Martineau  wrote:
> 
> 
> I have acquired an iPad, mostly for learning it so as to be able to instruct 
> others. With the iPhone I've always preferred locking orientation to 
> portrait, and haven't found a reason to use landscape. I'm open to other 
> viewpoints on orientation preferences and advantages for the iPhone, but I'm 
> especially wondering if there are sound reasons to keep the iPad in landscape 
> orientation, or use it that way in some circumstances. So I would appreciate 
> any experienced views.. 
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Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

[Joshua Hendrickson]

The google home is a great speaker especially for music that amazon
doesn't have, but the bluetooth doesn't really work like it once did.
I like the google home especially for spelling words that I might have
trouble with when writing emails.

On 1/7/22, CJ & AA MAY  wrote:
> What A shame. In general, I'm very happy with our Google Home Speaker.
> Alison
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of
> Joshua Hendrickson
> Sent: 07 January 2022 10:13
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
>
> The google home doesn't work any more with bluetooth.  I bought myself a
> fourth generation echo and it works so much better with bluetooth.
> I can listen to audible books from the audible app on my phone, and things
> like audio dramas sound very good through my echo.  The problems the google
> home has with bluetooth, is one reason why I bought my fourth generation
> echo.  I also got a great deal on it.  It was originally $100 and I got it
> for $60.  The sound on my echo is great as well.
>
> On 1/7/22, CJ & AA MAY  wrote:
>> I'm glad this topic has come up. I have a Google Home, which is
>> similar to the Amazon Alexa, and I thought I might be able to play my
>> music and Audible books using our Google Home via blue tooth, but the
>> speaker isn't showing up on the options in the Blue Tooth app. Does
>> this mean I can't use the speaker in this way?
>> Alison
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of
>> Simon A Fogarty
>> Sent: 07 January 2022 01:38
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
>>
>> Yeah it's great,
>>
>>  Sync my books or music to it and siri pretty much does what I ask
>>
>> Great at night for listening to audio books I can get siri to set a
>> sleep timer and it shuts down automagically
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of
>> Cris Ali
>> Sent: Friday, 7 January 2022 12:44 pm
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
>>
>> While you are at the subject of bluetooth speakers, have any of you
>> used the apple home pod mini? What do you think of it, and how does it
>> compare to other bluetooth speakers?
>> Cheers
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Jan 6, 2022, at 5:59 PM, Woody Anna Dresner 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Rani,
>>>
>>> Find your speakers in Bluetooth Settings. flick up or down until you
>>> get to More Info, and double-tap. There should be an item called Device
>>> Type.
>>> Select that, and then choose Speaker. After that, at least most of
>>> the time, VoiceOVer should come out of your phone, while music comes
>>> out of the speaker.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Anna
 On Jan 6, 2022, at 3:46 PM, Rami Ahmad  wrote:

 hi, i want to get a bluetooth speaker, that enables me to send all
 iphone sounds to it while still listening to voiceover speech
 through the iphone speakers. There is a rotor item called ′audio
 distination′ that controls where voiceover speech will be heard, but
 i can't find this option when i connect my trebet xSound bluetooth
 speaker. My friend has a sony speaker and gets this rotor option
 when he connects it, so what are the speakers that support this
 functionality? Is there a certain protocol that i should look for
 when buying a speaker so that i can get this feature of separating
 audio?
 Your help will be appreciated.


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Re: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:

[Donna Casteen]

You didn't say which phone that you have; is it possible that screen 
recognition is turned on? Or that screen recognition needs to be turned on to 
help you to be able to navigate to whatever is preventing you from being able 
to use the app. I am not having any trouble using the alexa app. & I seem to 
recall having to use screen recognition just long enough to be able to get past 
the problem, then turn screen recognition off.

Donna
 
> 
> 
> Hi listers,
> 
> 
> 
> I wanted to add a speaker to a group I previously created in the Alexa app a 
> long time ago.
> 
> 
> 
> I found I was unable to do that.
> 
> 
> 
> When going to the devices tab I now get a screen that says introducing 
> favorites and I can't find a way to get rid of it or do anying with it at all.
> 
> 
> 
> This prevents me from working with my devices and speaker groups.
> 
> 
> 
> Has anyone found a way around this?
> 
> 
> 
> I did try the pass through gesture with no luck and the amazon website 
> doesn't have the alexa control interface as it used to.
> 
> 
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> Don
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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RE: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:

[James]

Hi Don,

 

We had the very same issue on our 12 Pro Max’s, and despite asking Amazon how 
to get round it, without any help, we discovered that there is an ok button at 
the bottom of the screen, but with voice over on, try as we might, we could not 
access it, so I just turned voice over off, and got a sighted person to tap the 
button, and the screen disappeared.

 

Hope this helps.

 

James.

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Don Breda
Sent: 07 January 2022 11:34
To: VIPhone google group 
Subject: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:

 

Hi listers,

 

I wanted to add a speaker to a group I previously created in the Alexa app a 
long time ago.

 

I found I was unable to do that.

 

When going to the devices tab I now get a screen that says introducing 
favorites and I can't find a way to get rid of it or do anying with it at all.

 

This prevents me from working with my devices and speaker groups.

 

Has anyone found a way around this?

 

I did try the pass through gesture with no luck and the amazon website doesn't 
have the alexa control interface as it used to.

 

Any suggestions appreciated.

 

Don

 

 

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Speak screen no longer plays when phone is locked. 15.2 iOS

[Pete Nalda]

I used to use speech screen over voiceover because I could have it read 
continuously even when the phone was locked. This is not the case. I’m not sure 
if it goes to the next page automatically or not I will have to verify this. 
*update!** speak screen will still turn the page automatically and will keep 
reading even when app is in the background. Lock that screen though and the 
reading stops. I think you used to read even when the phone was locked


Egun On, Lagunak! (basque for G'day, Mates
Louie P (Pete) Nalda
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Re: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:

[Don Breda]

Thanks very much.


Donna I have an iPhone 8 so screen recognition is not an option.


James,


I did try that once  and it didn't work but of course I probably didn't 
tap the exact spot.



I will give it another shot.


Don



On 1/7/2022 6:34 AM, Don Breda wrote:


Hi listers,


I wanted to add a speaker to a group I previously created in the Alexa 
app a long time ago.



I found I was unable to do that.


When going to the devices tab I now get a screen that says introducing 
favorites and I can't find a way to get rid of it or do anying with it 
at all.



This prevents me from working with my devices and speaker groups.


Has anyone found a way around this?


I did try the pass through gesture with no luck and the amazon website 
doesn't have the alexa control interface as it used to.



Any suggestions appreciated.


Don





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Voiceover voicing “USD” after every stock price on the stock app… Following my update from 15.1 to 15.2

[Chuck Carlson]

Please let me know what setting I need to change in order to have the stock 
price red with out the suffix of USD. Thank you for your help.

 

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RE: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:

[kitty hevener]

Don I am having the same problem.  In fact, once I go in to the devices tab, I 
pretty much have to go in to the ap switcher, exit alexa and come back in.  Am 
using latest ios on se 2020.

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Don Breda
Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 6:34 AM
To: VIPhone google group 
Subject: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:

 

Hi listers,

 

I wanted to add a speaker to a group I previously created in the Alexa app a 
long time ago.

 

I found I was unable to do that.

 

When going to the devices tab I now get a screen that says introducing 
favorites and I can't find a way to get rid of it or do anying with it at all.

 

This prevents me from working with my devices and speaker groups.

 

Has anyone found a way around this?

 

I did try the pass through gesture with no luck and the amazon website doesn't 
have the alexa control interface as it used to.

 

Any suggestions appreciated.

 

Don

 

 

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Re: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:

[Holly]

Don:

I encountered the same thing.  There is a button at the bottom of the page, but 
voice over does not announce it.

The only way around this for me was to get sighted help.  Turn off voice over 
and have a sighted person tap the button that closes the page.  I can’t 
remember the name of the button though.

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RE: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:

[rick.alfaro]

Don, I had the same problem a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, there is a button  
that you have to tap to get past this screen which is totally inaccessible with 
VoiceOver. I had to have my sighted wife tap on it to get past it. You can’t 
help but wonder if Amazon does any accessibility testing when making changes.

 

 

 

 

 

Warmest regards

 

Rick Alfaro

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Don Breda
Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 8:01 AM
To: VIPhone google group 
Subject: Re: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:

 

Thanks very much.

 

Donna I have an iPhone 8 so screen recognition is not an option.

 

James,

 

I did try that once  and it didn't work but of course I probably didn't tap the 
exact spot.

 

I will give it another shot.

 

Don

 

 

On 1/7/2022 6:34 AM, Don Breda wrote:

Hi listers,

 

I wanted to add a speaker to a group I previously created in the Alexa app a 
long time ago.

 

I found I was unable to do that.

 

When going to the devices tab I now get a screen that says introducing 
favorites and I can't find a way to get rid of it or do anying with it at all.

 

This prevents me from working with my devices and speaker groups.

 

Has anyone found a way around this?

 

I did try the pass through gesture with no luck and the amazon website doesn't 
have the alexa control interface as it used to.

 

Any suggestions appreciated.

 

Don

 

 

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RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

[Sieghard Weitzel]

If you want to listen to Audible content on an Alexa speaker there is really no 
need to use it as a Bluetooth speaker for your iPhone. Amazon owns Audible so 
all you have to do is say to Alexa "Alexa, play such and such book on Audible". 
While the book is playing you can ask to go back a chapter or go forward a 
chapter, to rewind 3 minutes or go forward 2 minutes, to Pause and Play again 
etc.

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Joshua 
Hendrickson
Sent: January 7, 2022 4:12 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

The google home is a great speaker especially for music that amazon doesn't 
have, but the bluetooth doesn't really work like it once did.
I like the google home especially for spelling words that I might have trouble 
with when writing emails.

On 1/7/22, CJ & AA MAY  wrote:
> What A shame. In general, I'm very happy with our Google Home Speaker.
> Alison
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> Joshua Hendrickson
> Sent: 07 January 2022 10:13
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
>
> The google home doesn't work any more with bluetooth.  I bought myself 
> a fourth generation echo and it works so much better with bluetooth.
> I can listen to audible books from the audible app on my phone, and 
> things like audio dramas sound very good through my echo.  The 
> problems the google home has with bluetooth, is one reason why I 
> bought my fourth generation echo.  I also got a great deal on it.  It 
> was originally $100 and I got it for $60.  The sound on my echo is great as 
> well.
>
> On 1/7/22, CJ & AA MAY  wrote:
>> I'm glad this topic has come up. I have a Google Home, which is 
>> similar to the Amazon Alexa, and I thought I might be able to play my 
>> music and Audible books using our Google Home via blue tooth, but the 
>> speaker isn't showing up on the options in the Blue Tooth app. Does 
>> this mean I can't use the speaker in this way?
>> Alison
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf 
>> Of Simon A Fogarty
>> Sent: 07 January 2022 01:38
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
>>
>> Yeah it's great,
>>
>>  Sync my books or music to it and siri pretty much does what I ask
>>
>> Great at night for listening to audio books I can get siri to set a 
>> sleep timer and it shuts down automagically
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf 
>> Of Cris Ali
>> Sent: Friday, 7 January 2022 12:44 pm
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
>>
>> While you are at the subject of bluetooth speakers, have any of you 
>> used the apple home pod mini? What do you think of it, and how does 
>> it compare to other bluetooth speakers?
>> Cheers
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Jan 6, 2022, at 5:59 PM, Woody Anna Dresner 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Rani,
>>>
>>> Find your speakers in Bluetooth Settings. flick up or down until you 
>>> get to More Info, and double-tap. There should be an item called 
>>> Device Type.
>>> Select that, and then choose Speaker. After that, at least most of 
>>> the time, VoiceOVer should come out of your phone, while music comes 
>>> out of the speaker.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Anna
 On Jan 6, 2022, at 3:46 PM, Rami Ahmad  wrote:

 hi, i want to get a bluetooth speaker, that enables me to send all 
 iphone sounds to it while still listening to voiceover speech 
 through the iphone speakers. There is a rotor item called ′audio 
 distination′ that controls where voiceover speech will be heard, 
 but i can't find this option when i connect my trebet xSound 
 bluetooth speaker. My friend has a sony speaker and gets this rotor 
 option when he connects it, so what are the speakers that support 
 this functionality? Is there a certain protocol that i should look 
 for when buying a speaker so that i can get this feature of 
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RE: Temperature Mispronunciation

[Sieghard Weitzel]

But it sounds like what you are saying is that a temperature of 1 °C = to 1.8°F 
and that is not correct since you have to add 32 to that, so 1°C = 33.8°F.
Of course knowing that 0°C (the freezing point) is 32°F is useful and that 20°C 
= 68°F, you can use the 5°C = 9°F method to figure out what 5, 10, 15 or 25°C 
would be, but the actual conversion formula for any value is this:

Fahrenheit to Celsius
Temperature in degrees Fahrenheit less 32, then multiply that result by 9 and 
divide it by 5
Example For the temperature of 68°F:
68 minus 32 = 36, multiply that by 5 and you get 180, finally divide that by 9 
and you get 20
 
Celsius to Fahrenheit
Temperature in degrees Celsius multiplied by 9, divide the result by 5 and 
finally add 32
Example For the temperature of 20°C:
20 times 9 = 180, divide that by 5 and you get 36, finally add 32 and you are 
back to 68

Of course I rarely do this any more since I usually have an Alexa or Google 
Home speaker nearby and all I have to do is ask either one to convert anything 
I want and if I am out and about I either have my iPhone with me or my Apple 
Watch on my wrist and I can ask Siri.
This morning it is -23C° here and asking Google or Siri to convert it is much 
quicker than to multiply by 9 which ends up with -207, then dividing that by 5 
which = -41.4 and adding 32 which gives me the final result of -9.4°F.
Similarly using your method, Bill, and starting from the knowledge that 0°F = 
-17.8°C is also not an easy mental calculation, I would have to start with the 
difference between -17.8 and my actual temperature of -23 which is -5.2, then I 
would have to multiply that by your value of 1.8. I can of course use -5 for 
simplicity instead of -5.2 and multiplying 1.8 by 5 is of course easy because 
multiply it by 10 and you get -18 so half of that gives you -9 which is close 
enough to the accurate result of -9.4.

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Gallik
Sent: January 6, 2022 8:19 PM
To: viPhone 📩 
Subject: Re: Temperature Mispronunciation

Oh boy, I could write a dissertation on this subject; but never fear I will 
restrain myself.

First, I think it’s worth noting that 5 Centigrade degrees is equivalent to 9 
Fahrenheit degrees.  1 degree Centigrade is the same as 1.8 Fahrenheit degrees 
- let’s say 2F degrees for simplicity’s sake.  And, I will further elaborate.  
I should note I have a very dear friend in Peterborough ON. with whom I 
frequently converse, often sharing weather stats so I’ve made it a point to 
familiarize with the conversions between C and F.

In pursuing this exercise, I stumbled on what I view as a remarkable 
relationship between Centigrade and Fahrenheit, what I refer to as the 
“Goldilocks Range.”  While developing a spreadsheet to learn the temperature 
equivalents, I discovered the range from 16C/61F through 28C/82F have the 
phenomenon that the boundary temps are inverted digits; 16 is roughly the same 
as 61 and 28 and 82 are likewise nearly equal.  I realize that some might 
consider 16C/61F through 28C/82F  not an ideal “Goldilocks Temperature Range,” 
but I submit these temps should be reasonable boundaries to that range for the 
sake of mathematical discussion.  I will say this was the first step in my 
better  understanding the two scales.  It’s just too bad that Fahrenheit has 
that darn 32F as the freezing point, that tends to complicate straight-forward 
conversions.  But on the other hand, if not for that 32F degree glitch, the 
inverted temps would no longer apply.

As I mentioned earlier, every 5 degrees C is exactly equal to each 9 degrees F, 
each degree C is thusly exactly equal to  1.8 degrees F.  As such, 1C degree is 
1.8F degrees.

And then, of course, and so much more important in the far northern latitudes, 
there’s exact equality at -40 degrees - no matter which scale is employed, 
BRR!

I certainly hope this has not been too tedious a read, obviously I’m quite 
enthralled with the entire matter.  And, if I may say, I’m now able to convert 
between the two scales on the fly with a snap.  That’s something I achieved for 
the sake of my Peterborough pal! (Smiles)

* * * * * * * * * * * *
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Re: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:

[Mike B.]

Hi Don,

Below are 3 different ways to get rid of this screen:

 Read all the way through before attempting any of the options below just to 
kind of get your head wrapped around what to do.

 The 1st 2 ways of getting rid of this screen, 1 requires sight and the 
other requires turning Hands Free on and then off.  These steps are
using an SE 2020 iPhone running iOS15.2 and with a Home button.

#1, If using sight :
When you open the A'Lady app and double tap the Devices tab a screen called, 
Introducing Favorites, shows up and there isn't a way to get rid of that 
using
Voiceover since voiceover can't read the, Got It, button.
So, if you have sighted assistance available, open the app and double tab 
the devices tab to bring up the Introducing Favorites screen, now turn off 
Voiceover.
Have the sighted person tap the, Got It button, 1 time and the screen 
disappears for good.
With a little luck a blind person can do this as well, but it'll possibly 
take a few tries.  Open the app and double tap the devices tab to bring up 
the
Introducing
Favorites screen, now turn Voiceover off.
>From the top of the, Home button, move up with 1 finger one half an inch to 
1 inch, this is the approximate location of the Got It button, and tap 1 
time
with 1 finger.  Now turn Voiceover on to see if you got lucky.


#2, this is how I got rid of the Introducing Favorites screen using 
Voiceover & Hands Free, kinda sorta:
 Open the Amazon Alexa app and choose the More tab from the tabs at the 
bottom, it's to the right of the Devices tab.

Go to the top left and swipe right to, Settings, and open this.

Go to the top left, swipe right to, Alexa App Settings, and open this.

Go to the top left, swipe right to,Enable Alexa Hands-Free, and single 
finger double tap it.  You probably won't hear anything after double tapping 
, so
double tap it again and you should hear Voiceover report On or Off.

Turn this On and play around with the hands free functionality for a couple 
of minutes, and go back in and turn hands free off.  Now reboot your phone.

This is not a guarantee, but this is how I got rid of the Introducing 
Favorites screen.  It was by accident that I happened upon this , but what 
the hell,
as long as it worked who gives a crap!  LOL  LOL


#3: Using Screen Recognition:

From: Tamika Polk
This is what I did,

Go to settings, go to accessibility, go to VoiceOver, go to VoiceOver 
Recognition, turn on screen recognition.
 “Your iPhone will automatically make apps more accessible by recognizing 
items on the screen.”
Open the A Lady app,
Open theDevices tab and use the rotor to go to screen recognition, if it is 
off swipe down,  it will say on. Then you can find the got it button and tap
it. Then go back to the rotor find screen recognition and turn it off.
Thanks,
 Mrs. Tamika Polk-Davis



Stay safe and take care.  Mike.
Sent from my iBarstool

- Original Message - 
From: Don Breda
To: VIPhone google group
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2022 3:34 AM
Subject: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:


Hi listers,




I wanted to add a speaker to a group I previously created in the Alexa app a 
long time ago.




I found I was unable to do that.




When going to the devices tab I now get a screen that says introducing 
favorites and I can't find a way to get rid of it or do anying with it at 
all.




This prevents me from working with my devices and speaker groups.




Has anyone found a way around this?




I did try the pass through gesture with no luck and the amazon website 
doesn't have the alexa control interface as it used to.




Any suggestions appreciated.




Don








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Re: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:

[Jon Pierson]

Hi,

I've had this trouble for ages now. One work around is to double tap the "More" 
tab and then access devices from there.

Often I have another problem with her app, that VO only speaks through the 
phone's speaker, whether using BT headphones, or speakers.

The only way around this obstacle that I have found is to use wired headphones, 
or something else such as a speaker connected to that same headphone jack.

 

Jon

 

 

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 Accessibility issue with the Alexa app: 


Don Breda : Jan 07 06:34AM -0500 

Hi listers,
 
 
I wanted to add a speaker to a group I previously created in the Alexa 
app a long time ago.
 
 
I found I was unable to do that.
 
 
When going to the devices tab I now get a screen that says introducing 
favorites and I can't find a way to get rid of it or do anying with it 
at all.
 
 
This prevents me from working with my devices and speaker groups.
 
 
Has anyone found a way around this?
 
 
I did try the pass through gesture with no luck and the amazon website 
doesn't have the alexa control interface as it used to.
 
 
Any suggestions appreciated.
 
 
Don


Donna Casteen : Jan 07 05:34AM -0700 

You didn't say which phone that you have; is it possible that screen 
recognition is turned on? Or that screen recognition needs to be turned on to 
help you to be able to navigate to whatever is preventing you from being able 
to use the app. I am not having any trouble using the alexa app. & I seem to 
recall having to use screen recognition just long enough to be able to get past 
the problem, then turn screen recognition off.
 
Donna


"James" : Jan 07 12:43PM 

Hi Don,
 

 
We had the very same issue on our 12 Pro Max’s, and despite asking Amazon how 
to get round it, without any help, we discovered that there is an ok button at 
the bottom of the screen, but with voice over on, try as we might, we could not 
access it, so I just turned voice over off, and got a sighted person to tap the 
button, and the screen disappeared.
 

 
Hope this helps.
 

 
James.
 

 
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Don Breda
Sent: 07 January 2022 11:34
To: VIPhone google group 
Subject: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:
 

 
Hi listers,
 

 
I wanted to add a speaker to a group I previously created in the Alexa app a 
long time ago.
 

 
I found I was unable to do that.
 

 
When going to the devices tab I now get a screen that says introducing 
favorites and I can't find a way to get rid of it or do anying with it at all.
 

 
This prevents me from working with my devices and speaker groups.
 

 
Has anyone found a way around this?
 

 
I did try the pass through gesture with no luck and the amazon website doesn't 
have the alexa control interface as it used to.
 

 
Any suggestions appreciated.
 

 
Don
 

 

 
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RE: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:

[Sieghard Weitzel]

I just opened the Alexa app on my iPhone 11 and tapped on the Devices tab and 
had no such screen or any problems navigating what was there.

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Donna 
Casteen
Sent: January 7, 2022 4:35 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:

You didn't say which phone that you have; is it possible that screen 
recognition is turned on? Or that screen recognition needs to be turned on to 
help you to be able to navigate to whatever is preventing you from being able 
to use the app. I am not having any trouble using the alexa app. & I seem to 
recall having to use screen recognition just long enough to be able to get past 
the problem, then turn screen recognition off.

Donna




Hi listers,



I wanted to add a speaker to a group I previously created in the Alexa app a 
long time ago.



I found I was unable to do that.



When going to the devices tab I now get a screen that says introducing 
favorites and I can't find a way to get rid of it or do anying with it at all.



This prevents me from working with my devices and speaker groups.



Has anyone found a way around this?



I did try the pass through gesture with no luck and the amazon website doesn't 
have the alexa control interface as it used to.



Any suggestions appreciated.



Don




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RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

[Sieghard Weitzel]

Are you putting the speaker in pairing mode?
With a Google Home speaker you can simply say "Hey Google, pairing mode" or 
"Hey Google, pair a device"
Then go to Settings > Bluetooth on your iPhone, find the Google speaker, it 
will be called what ever you named it, and tap on it and it will connect.
I just did this with my google Mini in the bedroom and it paired just fine, at 
first Voiceover came out of the speaker, then I went into the "More" section 
for the speaker and under DCevice Type selected "Speaker", Voiceover then 
switched back to the phone after a few seconds, but when I played my Audible 
book it played on the speaker.
Unfortunately there is still the bug where as long as audio is playing on the 
speaker, Voiceover volume fluctuates on the phone which means it sometimes 
becomes louder, then quieter, but I had no issues pairing my phone to the 
Google Mini speaker.

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of CJ & AA 
MAY
Sent: January 7, 2022 12:46 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

I'm glad this topic has come up. I have a Google Home, which is similar to the 
Amazon Alexa, and I thought I might be able to play my music and Audible books 
using our Google Home via blue tooth, but the speaker isn't showing up on the 
options in the Blue Tooth app. Does this mean I can't use the speaker in this 
way?
Alison


-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Simon A 
Fogarty
Sent: 07 January 2022 01:38
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

Yeah it's great,

 Sync my books or music to it and siri pretty much does what I ask 

Great at night for listening to audio books I can get siri to set a sleep timer 
and it shuts down automagically 

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Cris Ali
Sent: Friday, 7 January 2022 12:44 pm
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

While you are at the subject of bluetooth speakers, have any of you used the 
apple home pod mini? What do you think of it, and how does it compare to other 
bluetooth speakers?
Cheers

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 6, 2022, at 5:59 PM, Woody Anna Dresner  wrote:
> 
> Hi Rani,
> 
> Find your speakers in Bluetooth Settings. flick up or down until you get to 
> More Info, and double-tap. There should be an item called Device Type. Select 
> that, and then choose Speaker. After that, at least most of the time, 
> VoiceOVer should come out of your phone, while music comes out of the speaker.
> 
> Best,
> Anna
>> On Jan 6, 2022, at 3:46 PM, Rami Ahmad  wrote:
>> 
>> hi, i want to get a bluetooth speaker, that enables me to send all iphone 
>> sounds to it while still listening to voiceover speech through the iphone 
>> speakers. There is a rotor item called ′audio distination′ that controls 
>> where voiceover speech will be heard, but i can't find this option when i 
>> connect my trebet xSound bluetooth speaker. My friend has a sony speaker and 
>> gets this rotor option when he connects it, so what are the speakers that 
>> support this functionality? Is there a certain protocol that i should look 
>> for when buying a speaker so that i can get this feature of separating 
>> audio? 
>> Your help will be appreciated. 
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RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

[Sieghard Weitzel]

Hi Alison,

I'm not sure why Joshua says the Google Home doesn't work any more as a 
Bluetooth speaker, I just paired my phone with my Google Home speaker and had 
no issues except for Voiceover volume fluctuating a bit when I designated the 
device type as speaker which caused Voiceover to revert back to the phone with 
other audio (Audible book, music etc.) playing on the speaker.

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of CJ & AA 
MAY
Sent: January 7, 2022 3:58 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

What A shame. In general, I'm very happy with our Google Home Speaker.
Alison
 

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Joshua 
Hendrickson
Sent: 07 January 2022 10:13
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

The google home doesn't work any more with bluetooth.  I bought myself a fourth 
generation echo and it works so much better with bluetooth.
I can listen to audible books from the audible app on my phone, and things like 
audio dramas sound very good through my echo.  The problems the google home has 
with bluetooth, is one reason why I bought my fourth generation echo.  I also 
got a great deal on it.  It was originally $100 and I got it for $60.  The 
sound on my echo is great as well.

On 1/7/22, CJ & AA MAY  wrote:
> I'm glad this topic has come up. I have a Google Home, which is 
> similar to the Amazon Alexa, and I thought I might be able to play my 
> music and Audible books using our Google Home via blue tooth, but the 
> speaker isn't showing up on the options in the Blue Tooth app. Does 
> this mean I can't use the speaker in this way?
> Alison
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> Simon A Fogarty
> Sent: 07 January 2022 01:38
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
>
> Yeah it's great,
>
>  Sync my books or music to it and siri pretty much does what I ask
>
> Great at night for listening to audio books I can get siri to set a 
> sleep timer and it shuts down automagically
>
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> Cris Ali
> Sent: Friday, 7 January 2022 12:44 pm
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
>
> While you are at the subject of bluetooth speakers, have any of you 
> used the apple home pod mini? What do you think of it, and how does it 
> compare to other bluetooth speakers?
> Cheers
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jan 6, 2022, at 5:59 PM, Woody Anna Dresner  wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rani,
>>
>> Find your speakers in Bluetooth Settings. flick up or down until you 
>> get to More Info, and double-tap. There should be an item called Device Type.
>> Select that, and then choose Speaker. After that, at least most of 
>> the time, VoiceOVer should come out of your phone, while music comes 
>> out of the speaker.
>>
>> Best,
>> Anna
>>> On Jan 6, 2022, at 3:46 PM, Rami Ahmad  wrote:
>>>
>>> hi, i want to get a bluetooth speaker, that enables me to send all 
>>> iphone sounds to it while still listening to voiceover speech 
>>> through the iphone speakers. There is a rotor item called ′audio 
>>> distination′ that controls where voiceover speech will be heard, but 
>>> i can't find this option when i connect my trebet xSound bluetooth 
>>> speaker. My friend has a sony speaker and gets this rotor option 
>>> when he connects it, so what are the speakers that support this 
>>> functionality? Is there a certain protocol that i should look for 
>>> when buying a speaker so that i can get this feature of separating audio?
>>> Your help will be appreciated.
>>>
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Hi 

 

Can someone explain to me how to use the VIB IN the iphone inbox please? 

I'm using Iphone se first generation. 

Thanks in advance 

 

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Re: iPad in portrait or landscape

[Deb Cook Lewis]

I'd agree with tom's comments. My low vision students have generally
liked the landscape mode. But as a VO user, i've never seen any
advantage for it. The one exception might be in any browser, I like
the way it lays things out in landscape mode for the browser. but
otherwise, I see no real advantage. And I'm also looking forward to
hearing a different opinion on this.

On 1/7/22, Thom Spittle  wrote:
> I Dean,
> The only observations I have are more with your students more than you. If
> your student is low vision, they may like the larger size of youtube videos
> when in landscape mode. Otherwise, the only difference I see is that the
> keyboard has larger keys in landscape mode, which some user like better.
>
> Looking forward to hearig other people’s opinions.
>
> Thom
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jan 7, 2022, at 6:23 AM, Dean Martineau  wrote:
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>> 
>> I have acquired an iPad, mostly for learning it so as to be able to
>> instruct others. With the iPhone I've always preferred locking orientation
>> to portrait, and haven't found a reason to use landscape. I'm open to
>> other viewpoints on orientation preferences and advantages for the iPhone,
>> but I'm especially wondering if there are sound reasons to keep the iPad
>> in landscape orientation, or use it that way in some circumstances. So I
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Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

[Alison May]

When i go to the bluetooth app in my iphone's settings, it does't see my google 
speaker so i assumed josh was correct. 

Sent from my iPhone by Alison may
0777 315 8181

> On 7 Jan 2022, at 5:32 pm, Sieghard Weitzel  wrote:
> 
> Hi Alison,
> 
> I'm not sure why Joshua says the Google Home doesn't work any more as a 
> Bluetooth speaker, I just paired my phone with my Google Home speaker and had 
> no issues except for Voiceover volume fluctuating a bit when I designated the 
> device type as speaker which caused Voiceover to revert back to the phone 
> with other audio (Audible book, music etc.) playing on the speaker.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of CJ & 
> AA MAY
> Sent: January 7, 2022 3:58 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
> 
> What A shame. In general, I'm very happy with our Google Home Speaker.
> Alison
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Joshua 
> Hendrickson
> Sent: 07 January 2022 10:13
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
> 
> The google home doesn't work any more with bluetooth.  I bought myself a 
> fourth generation echo and it works so much better with bluetooth.
> I can listen to audible books from the audible app on my phone, and things 
> like audio dramas sound very good through my echo.  The problems the google 
> home has with bluetooth, is one reason why I bought my fourth generation 
> echo.  I also got a great deal on it.  It was originally $100 and I got it 
> for $60.  The sound on my echo is great as well.
> 
>> On 1/7/22, CJ & AA MAY  wrote:
>> I'm glad this topic has come up. I have a Google Home, which is 
>> similar to the Amazon Alexa, and I thought I might be able to play my 
>> music and Audible books using our Google Home via blue tooth, but the 
>> speaker isn't showing up on the options in the Blue Tooth app. Does 
>> this mean I can't use the speaker in this way?
>> Alison
>> 
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
>> Simon A Fogarty
>> Sent: 07 January 2022 01:38
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
>> 
>> Yeah it's great,
>> 
>> Sync my books or music to it and siri pretty much does what I ask
>> 
>> Great at night for listening to audio books I can get siri to set a 
>> sleep timer and it shuts down automagically
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
>> Cris Ali
>> Sent: Friday, 7 January 2022 12:44 pm
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
>> 
>> While you are at the subject of bluetooth speakers, have any of you 
>> used the apple home pod mini? What do you think of it, and how does it 
>> compare to other bluetooth speakers?
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
 On Jan 6, 2022, at 5:59 PM, Woody Anna Dresner  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Rani,
>>> 
>>> Find your speakers in Bluetooth Settings. flick up or down until you 
>>> get to More Info, and double-tap. There should be an item called Device 
>>> Type.
>>> Select that, and then choose Speaker. After that, at least most of 
>>> the time, VoiceOVer should come out of your phone, while music comes 
>>> out of the speaker.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Anna
 On Jan 6, 2022, at 3:46 PM, Rami Ahmad  wrote:
 
 hi, i want to get a bluetooth speaker, that enables me to send all 
 iphone sounds to it while still listening to voiceover speech 
 through the iphone speakers. There is a rotor item called ′audio 
 distination′ that controls where voiceover speech will be heard, but 
 i can't find this option when i connect my trebet xSound bluetooth 
 speaker. My friend has a sony speaker and gets this rotor option 
 when he connects it, so what are the speakers that support this 
 functionality? Is there a certain protocol that i should look for 
 when buying a speaker so that i can get this feature of separating audio?
 Your help will be appreciated.
 
 
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Re: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:

[Kimberly Gardner]

I got around this issue with one of the methods Mike described
earlier. Just to revisit: I opened the Alexa app and tapped the
devices tab. The impassable screen appeared and I then turned off VO
and tapped approx 3 quarters of an inch above the home button and when
I turned VO back on I was past that annoying screen with the got it
button that voiceover doesn't recognize.

Thanks Mike for this work-around.

Kim

On 1/7/22, rick.alf...@gmail.com  wrote:
> Don, I had the same problem a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, there is a
> button  that you have to tap to get past this screen which is totally
> inaccessible with VoiceOver. I had to have my sighted wife tap on it to get
> past it. You can’t help but wonder if Amazon does any accessibility testing
> when making changes.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Warmest regards
>
>
>
> Rick Alfaro
>
>
>
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Don
> Breda
> Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 8:01 AM
> To: VIPhone google group 
> Subject: Re: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:
>
>
>
> Thanks very much.
>
>
>
> Donna I have an iPhone 8 so screen recognition is not an option.
>
>
>
> James,
>
>
>
> I did try that once  and it didn't work but of course I probably didn't tap
> the exact spot.
>
>
>
> I will give it another shot.
>
>
>
> Don
>
>
>
>
>
> On 1/7/2022 6:34 AM, Don Breda wrote:
>
> Hi listers,
>
>
>
> I wanted to add a speaker to a group I previously created in the Alexa app a
> long time ago.
>
>
>
> I found I was unable to do that.
>
>
>
> When going to the devices tab I now get a screen that says introducing
> favorites and I can't find a way to get rid of it or do anying with it at
> all.
>
>
>
> This prevents me from working with my devices and speaker groups.
>
>
>
> Has anyone found a way around this?
>
>
>
> I did try the pass through gesture with no luck and the amazon website
> doesn't have the alexa control interface as it used to.
>
>
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
>
>
> Don
>
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Re: question about VIB in inbox

[Thom Spittle]

Hi Anthony, if you go to a persons contact that you would like to put in the 
VIP area, there is a place to add them as a VIP member. What this will do is 
when you receive an email from them, it will send you an alert or notification 
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select few people, and those are the only notifications I get from my mail app. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 7, 2022, at 1:32 PM, Anthony Borg  wrote:
> 
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> Hi
>  
> Can someone explain to me how to use the VIB IN the iphone inbox please?
> I’m using Iphone se first generation.
> Thanks in advance
>  
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RE: question about VIB in inbox

[Sieghard Weitzel]

Actually, you add people to the VIP mailbox in the Mail app and not in contacts.
Make sure the VIP inbox is visible, if not go to the Mail app, tap on Edit and 
select it.
Now if you have never used it you can tap on the VIP inbox and there will be an 
"Add" button, tap it and select a person you want to add.
If you have already used it then swipe right once and tap on the "More Info" 
button next to the VIP inbox, you can manage your VIP contacts there.


From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Thom 
Spittle
Sent: January 7, 2022 11:22 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: question about VIB in inbox

Hi Anthony, if you go to a persons contact that you would like to put in the 
VIP area, there is a place to add them as a VIP member. What this will do is 
when you receive an email from them, it will send you an alert or notification 
stating that you have email. I use this because I want a notification from a 
select few people, and those are the only notifications I get from my mail app.
Sent from my iPhone


On Jan 7, 2022, at 1:32 PM, Anthony Borg 
mailto:anthonyborg...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi

Can someone explain to me how to use the VIB IN the iphone inbox please?
I’m using Iphone se first generation.
Thanks in advance

Anthony
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RE: question about VIB in inbox

[Sieghard Weitzel]

You can also assign a different sound when you receive email from VIP contacts, 
to do so go to Settings > Notifications > Mail, then at the very bottom tap on 
"Customize Notifications" and then find VIP, double tap on it and select how 
you want notifications to display, whether you want them on the lock screen and 
so on, you can also select a sound which then applies when email is received 
from contacts who are in your VIP list.

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Thom 
Spittle
Sent: January 7, 2022 11:22 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: question about VIB in inbox

Hi Anthony, if you go to a persons contact that you would like to put in the 
VIP area, there is a place to add them as a VIP member. What this will do is 
when you receive an email from them, it will send you an alert or notification 
stating that you have email. I use this because I want a notification from a 
select few people, and those are the only notifications I get from my mail app.
Sent from my iPhone


On Jan 7, 2022, at 1:32 PM, Anthony Borg 
mailto:anthonyborg...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi

Can someone explain to me how to use the VIB IN the iphone inbox please?
I’m using Iphone se first generation.
Thanks in advance

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RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

[Sieghard Weitzel]

Alison, as I said before, it won't see your Google speaker unless you first ask 
Google to put it in pairing mode, at that point it will show up at the very 
bottom of the list and you have to tap on it to connect.
Once it is paired it will be there in your list, but just as with any other 
Bluetooth device, you do have to perform that one-time pairing process.

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Alison 
May
Sent: January 7, 2022 10:55 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

When i go to the bluetooth app in my iphone's settings, it does't see my google 
speaker so i assumed josh was correct. 

Sent from my iPhone by Alison may
0777 315 8181

> On 7 Jan 2022, at 5:32 pm, Sieghard Weitzel  wrote:
> 
> Hi Alison,
> 
> I'm not sure why Joshua says the Google Home doesn't work any more as a 
> Bluetooth speaker, I just paired my phone with my Google Home speaker and had 
> no issues except for Voiceover volume fluctuating a bit when I designated the 
> device type as speaker which caused Voiceover to revert back to the phone 
> with other audio (Audible book, music etc.) playing on the speaker.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> CJ & AA MAY
> Sent: January 7, 2022 3:58 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
> 
> What A shame. In general, I'm very happy with our Google Home Speaker.
> Alison
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> Joshua Hendrickson
> Sent: 07 January 2022 10:13
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
> 
> The google home doesn't work any more with bluetooth.  I bought myself a 
> fourth generation echo and it works so much better with bluetooth.
> I can listen to audible books from the audible app on my phone, and things 
> like audio dramas sound very good through my echo.  The problems the google 
> home has with bluetooth, is one reason why I bought my fourth generation 
> echo.  I also got a great deal on it.  It was originally $100 and I got it 
> for $60.  The sound on my echo is great as well.
> 
>> On 1/7/22, CJ & AA MAY  wrote:
>> I'm glad this topic has come up. I have a Google Home, which is 
>> similar to the Amazon Alexa, and I thought I might be able to play my 
>> music and Audible books using our Google Home via blue tooth, but the 
>> speaker isn't showing up on the options in the Blue Tooth app. Does 
>> this mean I can't use the speaker in this way?
>> Alison
>> 
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf 
>> Of Simon A Fogarty
>> Sent: 07 January 2022 01:38
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
>> 
>> Yeah it's great,
>> 
>> Sync my books or music to it and siri pretty much does what I ask
>> 
>> Great at night for listening to audio books I can get siri to set a 
>> sleep timer and it shuts down automagically
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf 
>> Of Cris Ali
>> Sent: Friday, 7 January 2022 12:44 pm
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
>> 
>> While you are at the subject of bluetooth speakers, have any of you 
>> used the apple home pod mini? What do you think of it, and how does 
>> it compare to other bluetooth speakers?
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
 On Jan 6, 2022, at 5:59 PM, Woody Anna Dresner  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Rani,
>>> 
>>> Find your speakers in Bluetooth Settings. flick up or down until you 
>>> get to More Info, and double-tap. There should be an item called Device 
>>> Type.
>>> Select that, and then choose Speaker. After that, at least most of 
>>> the time, VoiceOVer should come out of your phone, while music comes 
>>> out of the speaker.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Anna
 On Jan 6, 2022, at 3:46 PM, Rami Ahmad  wrote:
 
 hi, i want to get a bluetooth speaker, that enables me to send all 
 iphone sounds to it while still listening to voiceover speech 
 through the iphone speakers. There is a rotor item called ′audio 
 distination′ that controls where voiceover speech will be heard, 
 but i can't find this option when i connect my trebet xSound 
 bluetooth speaker. My friend has a sony speaker and gets this rotor 
 option when he connects it, so what are the speakers that support 
 this functionality? Is there a certain protocol that i should look 
 for when buying a speaker so that i can get this feature of separating 
 audio?
 Your help will be appreciated.
 
 
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RE: Voiceover voicing “USD” after every stock price on the stock app… Following my update from 15.1 to 15.2

[Alan Lemly]

Chuck,

I noticed that recent Voiceover USD addition too in the Stocks app and figured 
it was something I'd have to live with. I always wonder about the folks who 
code these apps and their infinite lack of wisdom when they decide to change 
Voiceover's behavior for speaking additional details that have not previously 
been provided. I expect the very large majority of those using these devices 
are working with one currency based on their home location. If I learn of a way 
to turn off this new inconvenience, I'll post back.

Alan Lemly

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Chuck 
Carlson
Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 9:20 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Voiceover voicing “USD” after every stock price on the stock app… 
Following my update from 15.1 to 15.2

Please let me know what setting I need to change in order to have the stock 
price red with out the suffix of USD. Thank you for your help.

 

Sent from my iPhone

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Re: Voiceover voicing “USD” after every stock price on the stock app… Following my update from 15.1 to 15.2

[Dennis Long]

Try the dictionary and create an entry for that app.



Dennis Long
Sent from my iPhone 13 Pro

> On Jan 7, 2022, at 3:58 PM, Alan Lemly  wrote:
> 
> Chuck,
> 
> I noticed that recent Voiceover USD addition too in the Stocks app and 
> figured it was something I'd have to live with. I always wonder about the 
> folks who code these apps and their infinite lack of wisdom when they decide 
> to change Voiceover's behavior for speaking additional details that have not 
> previously been provided. I expect the very large majority of those using 
> these devices are working with one currency based on their home location. If 
> I learn of a way to turn off this new inconvenience, I'll post back.
> 
> Alan Lemly
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Chuck 
> Carlson
> Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 9:20 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Voiceover voicing “USD” after every stock price on the stock app… 
> Following my update from 15.1 to 15.2
> 
> Please let me know what setting I need to change in order to have the stock 
> price red with out the suffix of USD. Thank you for your help.
> 
> 
> 
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RE: Voiceover voicing “USD” after every stock price on the stock app… Following my update from 15.1 to 15.2

[Graham Stoodley]

Alan, do follow Dennis's suggestion to elimninate the currency reference you 
dislike, but I suggest the voiceOver techs at Apple were not as unthinking as 
you say. I am in Canada and invest in local and U.S. stocks. Some of those 
stocks are interlisted in Canada and on the NYSE or Nasdaq, and their dollar 
values differ because of the different currency values. So it's sometimes good 
to know that the quote I am getting is in U.S. dollars to avoid the heart 
attack of thinking my Canadian dollar stock has fallen so precipitously in 
value. And it's comforting to know that Apple thinks outside the U.S. for its 
customers.

Graham Stoodley

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Alan 
Lemly
Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 3:58 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Voiceover voicing “USD” after every stock price on the stock app… 
Following my update from 15.1 to 15.2

Chuck,

I noticed that recent Voiceover USD addition too in the Stocks app and figured 
it was something I'd have to live with. I always wonder about the folks who 
code these apps and their infinite lack of wisdom when they decide to change 
Voiceover's behavior for speaking additional details that have not previously 
been provided. I expect the very large majority of those using these devices 
are working with one currency based on their home location. If I learn of a way 
to turn off this new inconvenience, I'll post back.

Alan Lemly

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Chuck 
Carlson
Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 9:20 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Voiceover voicing “USD” after every stock price on the stock app… 
Following my update from 15.1 to 15.2

Please let me know what setting I need to change in order to have the stock 
price red with out the suffix of USD. Thank you for your help.

 

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Re: Voiceover voicing “USD” after every stock price on the stock app… Following my update from 15.1 to 15.2

[Les Kriegler]

Hi Alan And interested others,

Actually, I have experienced a problem and I need to contact Apple 
accessibility on this. I have a watchlist in Stocks app. When I swipe to the 
right I am often taken back to the beginning of the list all right here the 
same security repeated. It’s very annoying to say the least. Does anybody else 
experience this?

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 7, 2022, at 3:58 PM, Alan Lemly  wrote:
> 
> Chuck,
> 
> I noticed that recent Voiceover USD addition too in the Stocks app and 
> figured it was something I'd have to live with. I always wonder about the 
> folks who code these apps and their infinite lack of wisdom when they decide 
> to change Voiceover's behavior for speaking additional details that have not 
> previously been provided. I expect the very large majority of those using 
> these devices are working with one currency based on their home location. If 
> I learn of a way to turn off this new inconvenience, I'll post back.
> 
> Alan Lemly
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Chuck 
> Carlson
> Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 9:20 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Voiceover voicing “USD” after every stock price on the stock app… 
> Following my update from 15.1 to 15.2
> 
> Please let me know what setting I need to change in order to have the stock 
> price red with out the suffix of USD. Thank you for your help.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Voiceover voicing “USD” after every stock price on the stock app… Following my update from 15.1 to 15.2

[Alan Lemly]

Hi Graham,

I wasn't thinking about Canadian dollars and I could see where this new 
behaviour would benefit you. I'm not going to bother fooling with the 
pronunciation dictionary because I don't believe in altering native 
functionality for something like this to which I can easily adapt.

Alan Lemly

Sent from my iPhone with Outlook for iOS

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  on behalf of Graham 
Stoodley 
Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 3:48:23 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com 
Subject: RE: Voiceover voicing “USD” after every stock price on the stock app… 
Following my update from 15.1 to 15.2

Alan, do follow Dennis's suggestion to elimninate the currency reference you 
dislike, but I suggest the voiceOver techs at Apple were not as unthinking as 
you say. I am in Canada and invest in local and U.S. stocks. Some of those 
stocks are interlisted in Canada and on the NYSE or Nasdaq, and their dollar 
values differ because of the different currency values. So it's sometimes good 
to know that the quote I am getting is in U.S. dollars to avoid the heart 
attack of thinking my Canadian dollar stock has fallen so precipitously in 
value. And it's comforting to know that Apple thinks outside the U.S. for its 
customers.

Graham Stoodley

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Alan 
Lemly
Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 3:58 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Voiceover voicing “USD” after every stock price on the stock app… 
Following my update from 15.1 to 15.2

Chuck,

I noticed that recent Voiceover USD addition too in the Stocks app and figured 
it was something I'd have to live with. I always wonder about the folks who 
code these apps and their infinite lack of wisdom when they decide to change 
Voiceover's behavior for speaking additional details that have not previously 
been provided. I expect the very large majority of those using these devices 
are working with one currency based on their home location. If I learn of a way 
to turn off this new inconvenience, I'll post back.

Alan Lemly

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Chuck 
Carlson
Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 9:20 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Voiceover voicing “USD” after every stock price on the stock app… 
Following my update from 15.1 to 15.2

Please let me know what setting I need to change in order to have the stock 
price red with out the suffix of USD. Thank you for your help.



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It was mentioned earlier that some folks were having the issue of needing to 
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double tapping on the Alexa app again to return the voice to the speakers, 
but below is the fix for both issues.

 Open the Amazon Alexa app and choose the More tab from the tabs at the 
bottom, it's to the right of the Devices tab.

Go to the top left and swipe right to, Settings, and open this.

Go to the top left, swipe right to, Alexa App Settings, and open this.

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Apple vis podcast

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I have not received any Apple vis podcast since December. Does anyone know
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RE: question about VIB in inbox

[Anthony Borg]

Thanks once again for your useful info. 

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Sieghard 
Weitzel
Sent: 07 January 2022 21:16
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: question about VIB in inbox

 

You can also assign a different sound when you receive email from VIP contacts, 
to do so go to Settings > Notifications > Mail, then at the very bottom tap on 
"Customize Notifications" and then find VIP, double tap on it and select how 
you want notifications to display, whether you want them on the lock screen and 
so on, you can also select a sound which then applies when email is received 
from contacts who are in your VIP list.

 

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com   
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of Thom 
Spittle
Sent: January 7, 2022 11:22 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: Re: question about VIB in inbox

 

Hi Anthony, if you go to a persons contact that you would like to put in the 
VIP area, there is a place to add them as a VIP member. What this will do is 
when you receive an email from them, it will send you an alert or notification 
stating that you have email. I use this because I want a notification from a 
select few people, and those are the only notifications I get from my mail app. 

Sent from my iPhone

 

On Jan 7, 2022, at 1:32 PM, Anthony Borg mailto:anthonyborg...@gmail.com> > wrote:



Hi 

 

Can someone explain to me how to use the VIB IN the iphone inbox please? 

I’m using Iphone se first generation. 

Thanks in advance 

 

Anthony 

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Re: question about VIB in inbox

[Thom Spittle]

Thank you for corrected me. I was thinking of adding contacts to favorites in 
the phone app. Too many settings, two little time. Lol. Thanks

Thank you for corrected me. I was thinking of adding contacts to favorites in 
the phone app. Too many settings, two little time. Lol. ThanksSent from my 
iPhone

> On Jan 7, 2022, at 3:15 PM, Sieghard Weitzel  wrote:
> 
> 
> You can also assign a different sound when you receive email from VIP 
> contacts, to do so go to Settings > Notifications > Mail, then at the very 
> bottom tap on "Customize Notifications" and then find VIP, double tap on it 
> and select how you want notifications to display, whether you want them on 
> the lock screen and so on, you can also select a sound which then applies 
> when email is received from contacts who are in your VIP list.
>  
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Thom 
> Spittle
> Sent: January 7, 2022 11:22 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: question about VIB in inbox
>  
> Hi Anthony, if you go to a persons contact that you would like to put in the 
> VIP area, there is a place to add them as a VIP member. What this will do is 
> when you receive an email from them, it will send you an alert or 
> notification stating that you have email. I use this because I want a 
> notification from a select few people, and those are the only notifications I 
> get from my mail app. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> 
> On Jan 7, 2022, at 1:32 PM, Anthony Borg  wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi
>  
> Can someone explain to me how to use the VIB IN the iphone inbox please?
> I’m using Iphone se first generation.
> Thanks in advance
>  
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RE: question about VIB in inbox

[Simon A Fogarty]

You have written VIB,
Do you mean VIP for very important person,
Which is like an alert system that when you put email addresses of those that 
are important to you in there,
Their mail flicks up an alert to let you know it arrived unlike other emails.

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Anthony 
Borg
Sent: Saturday, 8 January 2022 7:33 am
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: question about VIB in inbox

Hi

Can someone explain to me how to use the VIB IN the iphone inbox please?
I’m using Iphone se first generation.
Thanks in advance

Anthony
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RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

[Simon A Fogarty]

Are you sure that the Bluetooth on your speaker is turned on?


-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Alison 
May
Sent: Saturday, 8 January 2022 7:55 am
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers

When i go to the bluetooth app in my iphone's settings, it does't see my google 
speaker so i assumed josh was correct. 

Sent from my iPhone by Alison may
0777 315 8181

> On 7 Jan 2022, at 5:32 pm, Sieghard Weitzel  wrote:
> 
> Hi Alison,
> 
> I'm not sure why Joshua says the Google Home doesn't work any more as a 
> Bluetooth speaker, I just paired my phone with my Google Home speaker and had 
> no issues except for Voiceover volume fluctuating a bit when I designated the 
> device type as speaker which caused Voiceover to revert back to the phone 
> with other audio (Audible book, music etc.) playing on the speaker.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> CJ & AA MAY
> Sent: January 7, 2022 3:58 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
> 
> What A shame. In general, I'm very happy with our Google Home Speaker.
> Alison
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> Joshua Hendrickson
> Sent: 07 January 2022 10:13
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
> 
> The google home doesn't work any more with bluetooth.  I bought myself a 
> fourth generation echo and it works so much better with bluetooth.
> I can listen to audible books from the audible app on my phone, and things 
> like audio dramas sound very good through my echo.  The problems the google 
> home has with bluetooth, is one reason why I bought my fourth generation 
> echo.  I also got a great deal on it.  It was originally $100 and I got it 
> for $60.  The sound on my echo is great as well.
> 
>> On 1/7/22, CJ & AA MAY  wrote:
>> I'm glad this topic has come up. I have a Google Home, which is 
>> similar to the Amazon Alexa, and I thought I might be able to play my 
>> music and Audible books using our Google Home via blue tooth, but the 
>> speaker isn't showing up on the options in the Blue Tooth app. Does 
>> this mean I can't use the speaker in this way?
>> Alison
>> 
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf 
>> Of Simon A Fogarty
>> Sent: 07 January 2022 01:38
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: RE: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
>> 
>> Yeah it's great,
>> 
>> Sync my books or music to it and siri pretty much does what I ask
>> 
>> Great at night for listening to audio books I can get siri to set a 
>> sleep timer and it shuts down automagically
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf 
>> Of Cris Ali
>> Sent: Friday, 7 January 2022 12:44 pm
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: voiceover speech and bluetooth speakers
>> 
>> While you are at the subject of bluetooth speakers, have any of you 
>> used the apple home pod mini? What do you think of it, and how does 
>> it compare to other bluetooth speakers?
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
 On Jan 6, 2022, at 5:59 PM, Woody Anna Dresner  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Rani,
>>> 
>>> Find your speakers in Bluetooth Settings. flick up or down until you 
>>> get to More Info, and double-tap. There should be an item called Device 
>>> Type.
>>> Select that, and then choose Speaker. After that, at least most of 
>>> the time, VoiceOVer should come out of your phone, while music comes 
>>> out of the speaker.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Anna
 On Jan 6, 2022, at 3:46 PM, Rami Ahmad  wrote:
 
 hi, i want to get a bluetooth speaker, that enables me to send all 
 iphone sounds to it while still listening to voiceover speech 
 through the iphone speakers. There is a rotor item called ′audio 
 distination′ that controls where voiceover speech will be heard, 
 but i can't find this option when i connect my trebet xSound 
 bluetooth speaker. My friend has a sony speaker and gets this rotor 
 option when he connects it, so what are the speakers that support 
 this functionality? Is there a certain protocol that i should look 
 for when buying a speaker so that i can get this feature of separating 
 audio?
 Your help will be appreciated.
 
 
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RE: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:

[Simon A Fogarty]

Thanks for this,

I've been trying to get passed this issue for weeks.

This might just do it.

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Kimberly 
Gardner
Sent: Saturday, 8 January 2022 7:56 am
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:

I got around this issue with one of the methods Mike described earlier. Just to 
revisit: I opened the Alexa app and tapped the devices tab. The impassable 
screen appeared and I then turned off VO and tapped approx 3 quarters of an 
inch above the home button and when I turned VO back on I was past that 
annoying screen with the got it button that voiceover doesn't recognize.

Thanks Mike for this work-around.

Kim

On 1/7/22, rick.alf...@gmail.com  wrote:
> Don, I had the same problem a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, there is a 
> button  that you have to tap to get past this screen which is totally 
> inaccessible with VoiceOver. I had to have my sighted wife tap on it 
> to get past it. You can’t help but wonder if Amazon does any 
> accessibility testing when making changes.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Warmest regards
>
>
>
> Rick Alfaro
>
>
>
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> Don Breda
> Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 8:01 AM
> To: VIPhone google group 
> Subject: Re: Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:
>
>
>
> Thanks very much.
>
>
>
> Donna I have an iPhone 8 so screen recognition is not an option.
>
>
>
> James,
>
>
>
> I did try that once  and it didn't work but of course I probably 
> didn't tap the exact spot.
>
>
>
> I will give it another shot.
>
>
>
> Don
>
>
>
>
>
> On 1/7/2022 6:34 AM, Don Breda wrote:
>
> Hi listers,
>
>
>
> I wanted to add a speaker to a group I previously created in the Alexa 
> app a long time ago.
>
>
>
> I found I was unable to do that.
>
>
>
> When going to the devices tab I now get a screen that says introducing 
> favorites and I can't find a way to get rid of it or do anying with it 
> at all.
>
>
>
> This prevents me from working with my devices and speaker groups.
>
>
>
> Has anyone found a way around this?
>
>
>
> I did try the pass through gesture with no luck and the amazon website 
> doesn't have the alexa control interface as it used to.
>
>
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
>
>
> Don
>
>
>
>
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RE: Apple vis podcast

[Alan Lemly]

Hi Mr. Ed,

 

The latest AppleVis podcast I’ve received in my Overcast subscription is dated 
11/29/21. Maybe they took December off.

 

Alan Lemly

 

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Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 7:03 PM
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Subject: Apple vis podcast

 

Hi Everyone,

I have not received any Apple vis podcast since December. Does anyone know what 
might be going on? I use to get many Apple vis podcast with Thomas Donville. Is 
he still doing them?

Mr. Ed

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