RE: Alexa on wifi at different location

[deidreandlouise]

Thanks. I saw all that last night. Odd thing is that voice over never tells me 
the same thing, either that or I hit on something different. Neither does my 
old 6 say the same thing that my SE second generation says, both in the Alexa 
App.

   This morning, I coached someone sighted to simply get to the 
place to plug in the new password since the network had already been selected. 
Voila, and the second old phone also connected without me having to fuss around 
in the Alexa App. I was on the right track.  

I’m finding Siri somewhat unreliable, unless I want to blame it all on my human 
error. I do not thinkit is all me!

 

Deidre

 

Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2023 6:54 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Alexa on wifi at different location

 

You have to go into the Alexa app on your phone and hook the Alexa device up to 
the Wi-Fi of your current/new location. The Alexa speaker connects to Wi-Fi 
just like your iPhone or any other device by recognizing the Wi-Fi name and 
then of course you have to provide the credentials, e.g. the password of the 
Wi-Fi network you want to connect to.

To do this do the following:

1. Open the Amazon Alexa app on your iPhone

2. tap on the "Devices" tab at the bottom (it is 4 of 5, so second from the 
right)

3. Tab on "Echo and Alexa", this is the first item in the list of available 
device groups

4. Find the Echo device you want to change and double tap on it

5. Find Wi-Fi and tap on it

6. It will display the Wi-Fi name that was last used and it should say 
"Change", this is a link, tap on it and follow the instructions to select a new 
Wi-Fi and enter the password when prompted.

 

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deidreandlou...@gmail.com  
Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2023 3:17 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: Alexa on wifi at different location

 

This may not be an appropriate question for this group. Just let me know if it 
isn’t.

   I brought an old screenless Echo Device to a place where I am 
staying. I saw nowhere in the Alexa App to take it off-line in one place and 
put it on another.

The only way it will talk to me is if I turn on Bluetooth. I’d rather hook it 
up to the wifi where I am staying.

Amazon for customers with disabilities says my inquiry is not suitable for a 
phone call but I am too tired now to struggle with this more now.

 

   Deidre

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Alexa on wifi at different location

[deidreandlouise]

This may not be an appropriate question for this group. Just let me know if
it isn't.

   I brought an old screenless Echo Device to a place where I am
staying. I saw nowhere in the Alexa App to take it off-line in one place and
put it on another.

The only way it will talk to me is if I turn on Bluetooth. I'd rather hook
it up to the wifi where I am staying.

Amazon for customers with disabilities says my inquiry is not suitable for a
phone call but I am too tired now to struggle with this more now.

 

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ultiple message notifications

[deidreandlouise]

Hello all

   I never solved the problem of having messages only announced
in the message App which sits at the bottom of  my home screen in the Doc.

   After an update to 16, suddenly, I get the same notifications
in something on the home paged called "the notification center." I do not
want to see the same things twice and have to clear them from the
"notification center, which never clears them all out even if I hit clear,
or clear all.There are too many options that sometimes that show that I have
no need for  .

Now I have the same messages I have deleted from inside the message app
coming back over and over again over 3 or ore days. This also never used to
happen. Look, if I deleted a series of messages or just one, I do not want
to see them over and over again.

I really hate redundancy.

I think it's time to call Apple Accessibility. There appear to be two
parallel universes when it comes to where messages are being presented.
Please just leave them in the Message App and I will see them on the in the
doc which will say something like 4 new messages, and I can hit on that and
respond to them once Mess App is open. Get rid of that unnecessary other
place where reminders and other announcements show. One reminder is enough,
I don't need a list of all things for the day to show up  in the
notification center.

I quit!

 

Deidre

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RE: Have you Gone Wireless, Yet?

[deidreandlouise]

These posts are great. You all are up on all that is out there. As for me, I 
can't wear any kind of ear pieces because they cause me sharp pain in my inner 
ear. I am glued to my phone day and night mostly because I text and read a lot, 
but I find if I do not turn my phone off at night, I sleep poorly because as 
soon as I wake in the night, I once more reach for the phone. I fall asleep 
again but if I leave the phone off I somehow sleep much better and wake less!
Round the clock entertainment these phone sure provide us. Does that 
spell distraction or cultural etification?

Smiling,

Deidre


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To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Have you Gone Wireless, Yet?

I'd take a set of Airpods maybe if somebody gave them to me along with $20.
I hate having anything stuck inside my ear further than the wired Earpods, they 
happen to fit me great and I don't even have to push them in hard and they just 
stay in place.
I also wouldn't be caught dead spending the kind of money on two little things 
which only last 5 or 6 hours and which I am bound to loose sooner or later.
Now keep in mind that this is strictly my take, I know many of  you love them 
and that's fine, then of course if I did spend the money on them I'd also say I 
love them.
As for wearing something in bed when you most likely will fall asleep there is 
nothing better than those sleep headbands which have a set of very thin 
speakers on each side over your ear and a little control pod on  your forehead 
with 3 buttons for volume up/down and play/pause in the middle. Of course if 
you want to fall asleep to high fidelty music then these are not the right 
thing, but they are fine for audio books or, if you are into those sleep 
sounds, that would probably be just fine, but they are the most comfortable 
thing and I usually sleep on my side so I definitely know and I often wake up 
in the middle of the night with my Audible book happily playing and I then 
usually stop it, pull them off my head and thrown them on the side table. You 
can find them on Amazon, just make sure you do look for wireless ones because 
the original ones do have a 3.5mm cable and that of course is sucks. I think I 
paid around $30 Canadian for mine about 2 or 3 years ago and they still work 
great.
I also have an Aftershokz Open Com which I use in certain situations and 
another Bluetooth gadget I have is one of these around the neck speakers, they 
consist of a thick and relatively soft rubbery cable about as thick as your 
thumb and one each end is a speaker, one has the typical buttons to turn it 
on/off and for play/pause and volume up/down. I quite like using them at home 
when I am out in the summer in the garden or even while cooking, your audio is 
right there more or less in front of your shoulders and you can easily reach up 
and pause or change the volume.for cert But I just bought a new set of 
Lightning Earpods because they are still my preferred headset, there is no lag 
and for $24.99 Canadian I get surprisingly good sounding earbuds. I probably go 
through a pair a year, sometimes a bit longer, but as I said, inexpensive, good 
and when I don't need them I roll them up around my hand and stick them into my 
pocket.

Best regards,
Sieghard

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Cc: vipho...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Have you Gone Wireless, Yet?

Hello All,

I have long been a fan of Apple wired Ear Pods.  

I had to have my original beloved 8 Plus replaced, about a month prior to its 
warranty expiration because the audio function of the Lightening port went bad.

For the last 6-months or so, perhaps longer, while the Lightening port on my 
replacement 8 Plus still functioned as expected, it lost the ability to retain 
a cable, unassisted.  This is to say, when I hold the phone in portrait mode, 
perpendicular to the ground, any attached cable will fall out.  

I am certain that I was the blame for this as I used to frequently roll onto 
the phone, when sleeping; very often tangling  the cable with tension for hours 
at a time.  (How's that for too much information? (smile)).

My point, I am determined not to ruin the Lightening port on my 14.

With that in mind, I am doing my best to wing myself from the wired Ear Pods in 
favor of Apple Air Pods.

Even though I like Air Pods and they are definitely more convenient to use than 
the wired alternative, I still find myself reaching for the wired pair, more 
than anything else.

I was just wondering how many of you have gone completely wireless having all 
but abandoned the wired Ear Pods?

It is interesting because when I go to Best Buy, Target, Walmart, etc. I always 
see wired Ear Pods, with either the Lightening or audio connector, readily 

RE: Siri and dictation tones

[deidreandlouise]

Yes, and dictation using Siri from the home screen  with 16 no longer works 
with any consistency on my SE 2020. I like simple and don’t always feel like 
being inside the Message  App dictating  in the edit field. That function works 
well, but what is the point of using Siri if you can’t use it more on the fly?

All I get is the text and a listen button that does noting for my purposes. I 
have not found any setting to remedy this though I may have gotten some 
pointers here in thepast many weeks, all of which I tried.  Usually Only 
occasionally do I get a prompting to send., Voice over is quite fickle and I do 
not use a Bluetooth keyboard, even though I have one. I much prefer using my 
old out  of  service 6S that does not have 16 on it, for daily  texting. It 
still allows me to dictate and add text without losing it, and I mean from the 
home screen, not from within the message app. I do an awful lot of texting each 
day.

   I still can’t figure out how to get rid of the double 
notifications. I used to only get my remindersand notifications at the 
appointed hour and those were settings done in notifications. With 16 I now 
have those alerts as well as messages in the “notification center.” No matter 
if it  is on or off, it still gives me those alerts and hangs onto them until I 
clear them. I never used to have to do that.

 

  I do not know what phone I might even want once 
the SE dies, and that is too bad because I am glued to my phone as is. It’s 
fortunate that the apps I use work fine.

   

Deidre

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2022 10:05 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Siri and dictation tones

 

For a while now, when I say "Hey Siri," there is no tone; just Siri saying "ah 
huh" 

It says it fairly quietly.

I only get the new, quieter, tone if I hold in the button.

Both Apple and Windows seem to think everyone has super hearing the way their 
tones have lowered in volume.

 

 

 

Richard, USA.

“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little 
consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin

My web site: https://www.turner42.com

 





On Dec 28, 2022, at 7:00 AM, R Van Lant mailto:vanlant2...@msn.com> > wrote:

Bill, is it possible that volume on Siri is turned down?  I've already given 
feedback to Apple that I cannot hear that first tone very well, especially with 
any background noise.  



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Subject: Siri and dictation tones

Good morning. 
For about the last day I have not had my Siri and dictation tones for some 
reason. Dictation works but I cannot get acknowledgement Siri heard me say Hey 
Siri. 
That’s the only thing that seems amiss in a major way with my iPhone 8 Plus 
running iOS 16.2 Checked the settings I could think of and restarted the phone. 
 All other sounds are fine. 
Bill 


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figured out how the battery caseworks

[deidreandlouise]

Hello again

I'm not sure why this did not occur sooner unless the battery case I just
bought was not charged at all or enough to charge my phone. This  I don't
really understand because when I asked someone sighted they often told me
the back of the case was lit up and I kept it plugged in for up to 2 ours
which the literature said to do.

   Suddenly yesterday I heard the sound of plugging in the
charger when I must have successfully turned my battery case on without any
sighted feedback. The phone was not plugged into an outlet, it  simply sat
in the battery case. So the way it works, and maybe they all do, when the
battery case has charge it charges the phone when the case's power is turned
on.

I didn't know this is the way they worked. How I thought they worked was to
take the charge from the battery case first when both the case and phone
were charged. Or, maybe they draw off energy from the phone as usual without
a case, but if you turn the case on, it will charge the phone with whatever
juice the case has, and give the phone what it needs until you don't need it
to charge up anymore. 

Now then, I guess if the battery case has nothing more to give, you would
know if your phone goes low and if the battery case is on, it won't say it's
charging up in the status bar anymore. All of this latter process would be
done without a charging cord plugged in.

Is this all obvious to the rest of you who use battery cases? Does this
sound right? I definitely do have a charging case or port of one sort or
another, so at least my $30  got me something.

 

   Deidre

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battery charger case

[deidreandlouise]

Robert,
What do you have for a battery case and what phone. It's great you have, or 
hear, a read out of what device has what charge.

Deidre

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Robert 
Stigile
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:51 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: battery charger case

Hello,
I have a battery case however it does not have a power button.
I imagine as your phone battery gets low you press the button and it will start 
charging.
My case works the opposite, it starts with the power of the case and when that 
goes to zero percent it then goes to the phone battery.
As for checking status if i am on page one i flick down a page where i have 
stocks and other status i have phone battery case battery watch battery and for 
me since i wear hearing aides the battery foetery for them is there too.


Robert Stigile, Second Vice-President
National Federation of the Blind of California President San Fernando Valley 
Chapter
818-381-9568
Kn6uvd


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Hello

I am new to battery cases. I did not find any options for a quality 
Apple battery case for my SE 2020 through Apple Sales, so I went for a cheap 
case via Amazon.

   I am confused about how these work even though I have 
been read the instructions.

   There is indeed a power switch on the back of the case. 
It is presently turned off since the phone was charged when I first put it in 
the case and I cannot remember if I had fully charged it beforehand. I did have 
the battery case plugged in for hours before the phone was installed in it. I’m 
assuming that the reading on the status bar of the phone is the actual charge 
that the phone itself has. Is there a way to know how much charge the battery 
case itself has? When would I power on the phone and know when to power it back 
off if I am supposed to charge the phone first? It says it takes 2 hours but 
how do I verify the battery has been charged to capacity?

Instructions for the case do indeed say that as the battery wears down, 
I should charge the phone first, at which point after that was done, I would 
turn the power back on to allow the battery case to then fill up.

   An Amazon customer when doing a search says to charge 
both phone and battery case at the same time. Before reading the instructions, 
that is what I might have assumed would be the way to do it.

I cannot tell if I am getting any extra battery usage out of the phone 
in the case of yet because uncharacteristically I did not use my phone a lot 
yesterday.

Is there a reading anywhere where I can see how much charge the battery 
case has at any given time? Am I right that my phone is always going to read 
what charge the phone itself has, and the only way to track the effectiveness 
of gaining more battery time is if I notice that I have to charge less often 
for my former average usage?

 

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battery charger case

[deidreandlouise]

Hello

I am new to battery cases. I did not find any options for a quality Apple
battery case for my SE 2020 through Apple Sales, so I went for a cheap case
via Amazon.

   I am confused about how these work even though I have been
read the instructions.

   There is indeed a power switch on the back of the case. It is
presently turned off since the phone was charged when I first put it in the
case and I cannot remember if I had fully charged it beforehand. I did have
the battery case plugged in for hours before the phone was installed in it.
I'm assuming that the reading on the status bar of the phone is the actual
charge that the phone itself has. Is there a way to know how much charge the
battery case itself has? When would I power on the phone and know when to
power it back off if I am supposed to charge the phone first? It says it
takes 2 hours but how do I verify the battery has been charged to capacity?

Instructions for the case do indeed say that as the battery wears down, I
should charge the phone first, at which point after that was done, I would
turn the power back on to allow the battery case to then fill up.

   An Amazon customer when doing a search says to charge both
phone and battery case at the same time. Before reading the instructions,
that is what I might have assumed would be the way to do it.

I cannot tell if I am getting any extra battery usage out of the phone in
the case of yet because uncharacteristically I did not use my phone a lot
yesterday.

Is there a reading anywhere where I can see how much charge the battery case
has at any given time? Am I right that my phone is always going to read what
charge the phone itself has, and the only way to track the effectiveness of
gaining more battery time is if I notice that I have to charge less often
for my former average usage?

 

   Deidre

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RE: am I losing my mind

[deidreandlouise]

   Yep it was turned on for messages while almost everything else 
was turned off! It's off now! Thanks. 

 

   Deidre 

 

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Sieghard 
Weitzel
Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2022 11:13 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: am I losing my mind

 

Maybe Siri notification reading is turned on, you can check under Settings > 
Siri and Search > Announce Notifications

At the very top you can turn this on and off, if it is turned on you can then 
select whether Siri should read notifications for your apps under the heading 
"Announce notifications from". 

Go down until you find messages and see if it is on.

If you completely turn off Voiceover with a triple press of the side button or 
maybe it's the home button if you have an SE or if you ask Siri to turn off 
Voiceover there is no way Voiceover is reading anything and it must be Siri.

 

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deidreandlou...@gmail.com  
Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2022 8:06 AM
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Subject: am I losing my mind

 

   A  new thing is now suddenly happening on my SE 2nd gen phone 
running 16, that is, if I have not lost my  mind.

   I have voice over off but it is still reading messagesout loud. 
Is this a notification setting that overides voice over being turned off?

 

   Deidre

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am I losing my mind

[deidreandlouise]

   A  new thing is now suddenly happening on my SE 2nd gen phone
running 16, that is, if I have not lost my  mind.

   I have voice over off but it is still reading messagesout
loud. Is this a notification setting that overides voice over being turned
off?

 

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RE: stopping dictation

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Siri is not good at recognizing :natural" speech; it often has a particular 
syntax it wants. I think Siri recognizes "dial" such and such a person. Even 
so, I've had to change names in my contacts before because even if I only have 
one Michael, Siri sometimes comes up with a short list of other names 
completely unrelated. I find that most annoying too.  

Deidre

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Frank
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 10:18 AM
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Subject: Re: stopping dictation

Yes. When I ask Siri to call someone she asks”What do you want to know about 
’someone’?”  I resist the urge to say, “I want to know why you don’t understand 
me, you …” I just say “CALL someone and she does. Annoying but an easy work 
around.
Thomas Frank
vermont...@gmail.com



> On Nov 30, 2022, at 10:01 AM, deidreandlou...@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Yeah Siri gets quite a blot of that stuff screwed up since 16. I haven't done 
> any updates since 16 because though there might have been some minor bug 
> fixes with voice over and dictation, I do not want to be further 
> disappointed. I often send messages on my back up old phone that has no phone 
> service because I can still add to Siri dictated messages outside the message 
> app and it will add to them without losing the first part of the already 
> dictated message, which is what Siri now does. Losing those functions kind of 
> defeat using Siri in such a context, that is, more spontaneously without 
> having to go into the message app. Maybe it has to do with the function 
> capacity of the SE 2nd generation phone. 
> 
> Deidre
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Tom 
> Rash
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 8:27 AM
> To: Viphone 
> Subject: Re: stopping dictation
> 
> Also, I notice that when I say, “call Tom Smith,”  Siriwill reply, “What do 
> you want to know about Tom Smith.”
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RE: stopping dictation

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Yeah Siri gets quite a blot of that stuff screwed up since 16. I haven't done 
any updates since 16 because though there might have been some minor bug fixes 
with voice over and dictation, I do not want to be further disappointed. I 
often send messages on my back up old phone that has no phone service because I 
can still add to Siri dictated messages outside the message app and it will add 
to them without losing the first part of the already dictated message, which is 
what Siri now does. Losing those functions kind of defeat using Siri in such a 
context, that is, more spontaneously without having to go into the message app. 
Maybe it has to do with the function capacity of the SE 2nd generation phone. 

Deidre
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Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 8:27 AM
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Subject: Re: stopping dictation

Also, I notice that when I say, “call Tom Smith,”  Siriwill reply, “What do you 
want to know about Tom Smith.”

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RE: Is BARD 2 fully operational or broken?

[deidreandlouise]

The note I saw roughly 5-7 days ago said those updates would be 
continuing for quite some time,not just a few days.

deidre

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Steve 
Matzura
Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 3:02 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Is BARD 2 fully operational or broken?

Yes, I did read the system message about transitioning and possibly slow 
updates, but that was days ago.


Yes, I'm on BARD 2.00.806.


On 10/5/2022 2:55 PM, Richard Turner wrote:
> I believe they are in transition with some server updates and had provided a 
> message in the app about knowing that NLS is slower than normal about updates 
> to the library.
> Did you update your app?
>
> Give it another try as sometimes the wish list is also slow to populate.  If 
> it is still showing empty, try tomorrow, then contact your regional library.  
> They may know something more.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Richard, USA.
> “Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.”  
> --  Jane Wagner from The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe
>
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>
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Steve 
> Matzura
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> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Is BARD 2 fully operational or broken?
>
> I visited my wish list last night, as I do about once a month to download 
> subscriptions--or rather, I tried to download them, but like the nursery 
> rhyme, when I got there, the cupboard was bare. Now, I know for sure there 
> are at least three monthly magazines which have September issues, and it's 
> now October, but they're not there. Neither are the biweeklies, and there 
> should be at least three issues of each, too. All the items I think I should 
> be finding in the wish list are still subscribed because for each one, I'm 
> offered the option of unsubscribing. Is NLS just a little slow on updating 
> recent issues, or is there something maybe I'm supposed to do to correctly 
> transition to Bard 2.0 of which I was unaware?

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SE 2020

[deidreandlouise]

Hello all

There is another thing happening on my SE 2020 since the first 16 update. I
did write up a list and send it on to Apple Assessibility and just got
disconnected while waiting on hold to talk to them about what I will
describe below.

   Siri is not responding to my normal tone of voice. I have to
literally yell at the phone (and my echo device) to get her to acknowledge I
have spoken. I know to wait to hear the bonk sound, for lack of a better
term, and either way I wind up having to repeat my request twice, and you
all know how much I like doing that! 

   Is there some setting to mark the sensitivity of the
recognition? I don't mean speech recognition, just regular dictated speech,
once again most of the problems are when I try to use Siri from the home
screen, and I am not within an app. I guess if this persists I will simply
get trained to always do dictation within an edit field in a specific App.

 

   Another broken thing: 

   If I say go to mail settings or settings for mail, I will
never be taken to those specific settings. This was not the case with
previous IOS versions.

   And, why is "mentions" in my roter? I did not put it there
and see nothing about it in the roter settings.

btw, what bugs did 16.2 fix?

 

   Deidre

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RE: Message Alerts vs Notification Center

[deidreandlouise]

Richard

I've seen all these settings and thought I'd set them this way. I will double 
check. 

   Thanks. 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2022 2:29 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Message Alerts vs Notification Center

 

OK, 

Under Settings, Notifications, mail, find the customize notifications button.  
There will be separate settings for each account if you have more than one 
account.

You can assign a different sound for each account if you want, but you will 
want to be sure that Alert, Sounds, and Badges are on under this section.

 

Again, on the first level, leave notification center unselected.

 

For messages, I have allow notifications on at the very top.

Then, in the alerts heading, Allow on lock screen and allow as banner are 
selected.  Allow in notification center is not selected.

I also have announce notifications on.

I have show previews as never.

 

Notification grouping is automatic.

 

I don’t have to clear messages from the notification center.

I read them and they are gone…

 

HTH,

 

 

Richard, USA.

“Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.”  
--  Jane Wagner from The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe

 

My web site:   https://www.turner42.com

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com   
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of Mike 
B.
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2022 11:04 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: Re: Message Alerts vs Notification Center

 

Hi Richard,

 

Thank you very much.  I've tried as you've suggested several times but, if I do 
that then I don't receive my assigned alert sounds when I do get a new text or 
email at all.

 

 

Take care.  Mike.  Sent from my iBarstool.  Go Dodgers! 

- Original Message - 

From: Richard Turner   

To: viphone@googlegroups.com   

Sent: Friday, September 30, 2022 10:56 AM

Subject: RE: Message Alerts vs Notification Center

 

Well Mike, if you don’t mind reading a little more crap, , I think I know how 
you need your settings set.

 

Open settings, notifications.

Find the Mail app.

Flick to Allow in notification Center, if that says selected, double tap and it 
should no longer say selected.

Back out of the settings, and that should fix it.

The same for messages.

 

HTH,

 

 

 

Richard, USA.

“Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.”  
--  Jane Wagner from The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe

 

My web site:   https://www.turner42.com

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com   
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of Mike 
B.
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2022 10:42 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: Message Alerts vs Notification Center

 

Hi All,

 

Using an SE2020 iPhone running iOS15.7.  It seems like I've tried every 
configuration bia the Message app and Notification Center app settings but, 
would someone please tell me the following?

 

What I want is to get the alert sounds for text messages and emails but, I 
don't want them showing in the Notification Center.  To me it makes no sense 
going to both the Message and Mail apps, then into the Notification Center to 
delete the notifications.  I only need to hear the alert sounds as the messages 
and emails hit their respective apps / In-boxes to know I have more crap to 
read.

 

Is what I'm asking doable?  If so, how it would be done?  All help is greatly 
appreciated.  Thanks mooy moocho.

 

 

 

 

Take care.  Mike.  Sent from my iBarstool.  Go Dodgers! 

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mail and contact headings

[deidreandlouise]

Hello all

How can I set my mail and contacts to not constantly ask me which list or
contact list to use? On my 6S andbefore the update I only told the phone to
sort into  known and unknown. Now I get othr headings I do not want to have
to reset continually. 

   I continue to scrutinize settings but still keep missing
things that are causing redundancy that is totally unwelcome.

   I feellike just using my old phone with an older update on
it. 

   And, why do I now have to hear the name of the app I want to
close twice in the app  switcher before having to swipe again to close or
activate the app? This too is new.

 

   Deidre 

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RE: Notification center

[deidreandlouise]

Thanks Donna.
I found a spcific setting in notifications to restrict alerts in the 
notification center, not within the app. I had to turn off calender 
notifications because they were coming in non-stop and they only used to be set 
t alert me one day before at the time of the appointment. I'm not sure how to 
get that corrected again. 
I use a SE 2020, but maybe I'll go look at where screen recognition is. 
It is not in my roter.


Deidre

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Donna 
Casteen
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 3:02 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Notification center

I can't answer your notification center question. I'm having trouble 
interacting with notifications within notification center & clearing all 
notifications from notification center.

As for your problem with Facebook. You didn't mention which iPhone you are 
using. If you are using an iPhone 11 or newer, confirm that screen recognition 
is off.

Donna
US iPhone 11How do I get rid of notification center notifications. I have 
notifications turned on for Phone and calendar appointments and reminders. I 
turned off  mail because the phone would be pinging constantly.  I don’t need 
to see these duplicate mmessages announced  with a long list of all these 
things. I can check that manually myself. I hate all this redundancy. I never 
look forward to updates either but this might be an old problem not a new one. 
> Did they ever fix Facebook, I have to access it on my old 6S otherwise I 
> can’t enter anything into an edit field in the what’s on your mind or add a 
> caption to something I’m posting and sometimes comments too. I really hate 
> these bugs.
> I wonder sometimes if beta testers are using their Bluetooth keyboards too 
> much to do testing when some of us are still really prefer touch gestures. 
> Yes using a Bluetooth keyboard might make things more efficient and less 
> buggy but I do not want to be attached to a Bluetooth keyboard all the time.
> 
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RE: pre-ordering Stollen from Sieghart

[deidreandlouise]

   Wow, precision alright, and power to the talking cooking scale 
makers. 

it was already obvious that you, Sieghart, were serious and now 100 times even 
more so. I spent 6 months in Germany in 1977 when I was still a teenager and 
loved it. 

   I loved the whole ritual of making Feuersangenbowler, but don't 
scream if I badly badgered the spelling. It sure gave me a serious buzz and 
warmed me up to the very core one night when I came in from the cold and 
unsuspecting, was given a cup of it for the first time. We must have prepared 
ourselves at another time because the sugar loaf, the pedestal it was placed 
on, the saturating it with liquor then setting it on fire then watch while it 
dissolved into the bowl was amazing.

 

   Deidre

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Sieghard 
Weitzel
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2022 2:52 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: pre-ordering Stollen from Sieghart

 

Measuring whether using cups or a scale is no different exact using a cup is 
not very accurate. If you want it to be as accurate as possible especially for 
floour you have to spoon the flour into the cup because if you scoop it in then 
it gets compressed and instead of the approx. 120 grams which a cup of all 
purpose flour should weigh you may have 20% more which makes a huge difference.

If I need 4.5 cups of flour it's actually a lot faster to weigh it than to use 
first a 1-cup measurement and then a half cup measurement.

I enjoy cooking but baking even more and I enjoy the precision and the process 
(and of course the results).

I don't have that much time to do a lot which is probably good because while I 
don't gain weight that easily, I will gain weight if I eat lots of sweets and 
besides its not good for you despite how good it seems to be 

But for me Christmas without a German Stollen, certain types of cookies and 
lots of Marzipan is just not right. Oh, and lets not forget hot mulled wine 
with spices.

 

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com   
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of 
deidreandlou...@gmail.com  
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2022 11:46 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: pre-ordering Stollen from Sieghart

 

   Reading this post made me hungry, and want to have a live in 
Sieghart. Measuring out the exact weight of  ingredients as you put a baked 
good together is true  commitment to cooking.

 

   Deidre

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com   
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of This 
Weitzel
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2022 1:23 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: RE: seeking recommendations for kitchen scales and cooking thermometers

 

Hello Keith,

 

I personally find the talking scales from my Weigh to work best. I should 
mention that I haven't tried a connected scale yet, but my problem with them is 
that each time you want to weigh something you have to get out your iPhone, I 
assume you would have to use some app to work with the scale and then hopefully 
the scale once setup connects without fuss and can provide a continuous readout 
as you add whatever ingredient you are weighing to the scale.

I enjoy cooking and baking and even if I say so myself I am quite good at it 
having been taught by my Mom who has her Masters in home economics from Germany 
back when she was young in the late 50's and early 60's. Back then they were 
taught so many basics and of course while she is not a Chef, her education 
included a lot of cooking and baking. Anyways, recipes from Germany always have 
ingredients listed in grams which of course is much more precise than using 
cups and spoons with the exception of some spices where it called for a 
teaspoon of ground cumin or cloves or cinnamon in which case the teaspoon is 
fine since that would only be 2 or 3 grams at best which is difficult to weigh.

If I bake and have to weigh flour, sugar, butter and whatever other ingredients 
I may need I want to be able to do so quickly and accurately and the My Weigh 
talking scale I have allows me to do this.

Just as one example, we have a traditional Christmas cake in Germany called 
"Stollen" which is a yeast dough with a ton of stuff in it like ground almonds, 
3 different types of raisins, fresh ginger, candied ginger, candied orange 
peel, candied lemon peel, so I have to weigh all that in addition to flour, 
butter, milk (I also weigh liquids), yeast and without a scale where you can do 
this quickly and without fuss it would be a pain in the neck. 

 

I know this topic has come up before and I think it was Krister who said his My 
Weigh scales always break and never work more than a few months or maybe a 
year, but that is not my experience. I had my first My Weigh scale for I think 
around 20 

pre-ordering Stollen from Sieghart

[deidreandlouise]

   Reading this post made me hungry, and want to have a live in 
Sieghart. Measuring out the exact weight of  ingredients as you put a baked 
good together is true  commitment to cooking.

 

   Deidre

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of This 
Weitzel
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2022 1:23 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: seeking recommendations for kitchen scales and cooking thermometers

 

Hello Keith,

 

I personally find the talking scales from my Weigh to work best. I should 
mention that I haven't tried a connected scale yet, but my problem with them is 
that each time you want to weigh something you have to get out your iPhone, I 
assume you would have to use some app to work with the scale and then hopefully 
the scale once setup connects without fuss and can provide a continuous readout 
as you add whatever ingredient you are weighing to the scale.

I enjoy cooking and baking and even if I say so myself I am quite good at it 
having been taught by my Mom who has her Masters in home economics from Germany 
back when she was young in the late 50's and early 60's. Back then they were 
taught so many basics and of course while she is not a Chef, her education 
included a lot of cooking and baking. Anyways, recipes from Germany always have 
ingredients listed in grams which of course is much more precise than using 
cups and spoons with the exception of some spices where it called for a 
teaspoon of ground cumin or cloves or cinnamon in which case the teaspoon is 
fine since that would only be 2 or 3 grams at best which is difficult to weigh.

If I bake and have to weigh flour, sugar, butter and whatever other ingredients 
I may need I want to be able to do so quickly and accurately and the My Weigh 
talking scale I have allows me to do this.

Just as one example, we have a traditional Christmas cake in Germany called 
"Stollen" which is a yeast dough with a ton of stuff in it like ground almonds, 
3 different types of raisins, fresh ginger, candied ginger, candied orange 
peel, candied lemon peel, so I have to weigh all that in addition to flour, 
butter, milk (I also weigh liquids), yeast and without a scale where you can do 
this quickly and without fuss it would be a pain in the neck. 

 

I know this topic has come up before and I think it was Krister who said his My 
Weigh scales always break and never work more than a few months or maybe a 
year, but that is not my experience. I had my first My Weigh scale for I think 
around 20 years when it did at some point not work any more. It was the 
VOX-3000 and the surprising thing is that when I contacted My weigh they 
offered to replace it with a new scale for only the shipping cost which I 
thought was amazing. I now have had that replacement scale for probably the 
last 4 or 5 years and it just works.

 

I just did a quick search and here are the links and brief descriptions:

 

VOX-3000: The world’s only precision talking kitchen scale.

It uses a 9 Volt battery and has a 1 gram accuracy just as the Vox-2 which I 
think is a newer model although they must have updated the Vox-3000 since it 
says now that it can talk in English, Spanish, fRench and German and my old one 
could only speak English as far as I know. The Vox-3000 also has a round 
platform and comes with a plastic bowl which has a rim around the bottom which 
sits on the platform so it actually cannot just slide off if you accidently 
push against it.

For some reason they don't list the capacity of the Vox-3000, but if I remember 
correctly it weighs up to 3000 grams as is implied in the model name, so 3 Kg 
or 6.6 pounds.

 

My Weigh Vox 3000 | My Weigh | The best digital scales on earth 
 

 

 

VOX-2: Multi-purpose, high-capacity talking scale.

This one weighs up to 5 Kg and you can of course set it to grams/Kg and 
ounces/pounds and it is accurate to 1 gram which is 0.0353 ounces.

Both of the My Weigh scales I have had also work really well in that you can 
put on any plate or bowl or container before you turn the scale on and it will 
start at 0 no matter whether you have a little plastic bowl on it which weighs 
an ounce or a big glass bowl which weighs 2 pounds.

There is also a button for a tare feature which allows you for example to weigh 
your butter, assume you want 200 grams, then you want to add sugar directly 
into the butter because normally that is what you do when you bake. You press 
the tare button after you have your butter in the bowl and the scale then 
resets to 0 and you can add say 100 grams of sugar which just makes it a bit 
easier and saves you from using another bowl to weigh it before pouring it into 
the bow with the butter.

Interestingly enough my wife says our scale is also a Vox-2, but it still uses 
a 9 Volt battery and as far as I know it only speaks English whereas the one 
they show on their website now can speak English, Spanish, French and German 

Notification Center

[deidreandlouise]

Speaking of notifications, I've never understood how to set notifications for 
Apps only under Notifications in Settings and where to go to not get 
notifications from what I believe is the Notification Center. I do not need 
duplicate notifications and don't need to have to clear messages that are 
coming from the Notification Center. I simply hear messages make a tone and 
announce who it's from then after I look at it keep it or delete it. Am I 
confusing something here?  the h.
Similarly how can I stay in the area after I've chosen to see all mail or 
unread mail and not have to choose that over and over again. I simply want to 
stay in my conversation list and would rather go looking to change it when I 
wanted, not have to choose over and over again.
This may be ignorance on my part, or it may be that the headings that 
show  keep getting longer and longer, and I can't stand it.

Deidre
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Holly
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2022 11:38 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: iOS 16.02 is available with VO fixes

I have a SE 2020, and can not open notifications from the notification center. 

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RE: Another Phone That Won't Talk After Reboot

[deidreandlouise]

   As for  me, I do not have phone service on my second old I Phone.

 

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Sieghard 
Weitzel
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 2:00 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Another Phone That Won't Talk After Reboot

 

And one m ore suggestion since you seem to have a second phone available, why 
not call Aira or Be My Eyes, using OCR on the screen is good and it may tell 
you what is there, but another person could have probably helped you tap the 
correct numbers. 

 

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mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of 
Vicky Collins
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2022 8:20 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: RE: Another Phone That Won't Talk After Reboot

 

I had this same thing happen with both my 12 Mini and 13 Mini Friday night, but 
I haven’t had the problem with either phone since. I’m using the default 
Samantha voice, and I had no problems when upgrading to iOS 16.

 

With the 13 Mini, I had turned the phone off to get rid of that one unread 
message badge I often get now when I receive a text message on one of my phones 
and delete it right after reading. Since I have text message forwarding set up 
on both of my phones, the phone on which I don’t read the text shows that badge 
until I either recover the message I have deleted on the other phone or until I 
reboot that phone on which I haven’t read the message.

 

Anyway, after turning that iPhone 13 Mini back on, VoiceOver did not speak or 
make any sounds, and nothing I did from trying to talk to Siri, using 
headphones, turning up the volume button, doing the triple click of the side 
button or force restarting the phone would bring back the speech. I finally got 
my 12 Mini to read the screen with Seeing AI, and after pressing the side 
button to get it where it needed to be, it finally read the slide to unlock or 
whatever it says, and I lucked into getting the phone into the correct position 
with the slide I did, and then I miraculously entered the passcode correctly 
and VoiceOver started talking once again. Before getting to this point, though, 
I had had enough unsuccessful attempts at entering that passcode to where I had 
to wait the fifteen minutes before I got the opportunity that actually let me 
unlock the phone and restore VoiceOver.

 

As for my 12 Mini, while I had turned it off for the same reason as the 13 
Mini, meaning another text message badge I wanted to get rid of as I had 
permanently deleted a message on the 13 Mini and thus couldn’t recover it on 
the 12 Mini to get rid of that badge, I wasn’t nearly as fortunate with 
recovering VoiceOver. For, even though I practiced positioning my fingers on 
the 13 Mini so I would be ready when I could get the 12 Mini to that unlock 
position, I somehow managed to enter the incorrect passcode every time, 
figuring this since VoiceOver never did start talking.

 

I let this go on for my opportunity to enter the passcode after an hour, but 
when that attempt failed and the screen read that my 12 Mini would now be 
disabled for three hours, I decided to try other things. I couldn’t connect the 
phone to the computer and try to see if I could bring up the accessibility 
settings in iTunes because I had turned off the USB accessories setting that 
would’ve let USB accessories connect after the phone had been locked for an 
hour. I couldn’t turn the phone off as I normally do by pressing the volume up, 
then the volume down, and then pressing the side button for a second or two, 
and I was afraid to try to turn the phone off with holding the side button and 
one of the volume buttons as I didn’t want to risk calling 911 by mistake, so I 
wasn’t able to put the 12 Mini in recovery mode either. Oh, although VoiceOver 
didn’t work, I was able to call either phone when VoiceOver wasn’t working and 
each would ring even though there was no speech except me hearing myself when I 
would occasionally get that swipe just right and I managed to get a call 
connected.

 

Thus, what I wound up doing in the end, as I certainly wasn’t going to knock on 
a neighbor’s door late at night, was that I went into the Find My app on my 13 
Mini, erased the iPhone 12 Mini, and then set up the 12 Mini again restoring it 
from the iCloud backup I had thankfully done the day before.

 

Sent from Mail   for Windows

 

From: Arnold Schmidt  
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2022 9:17 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: Another Phone That Won't Talk After Reboot

 

I have a friend, who has a 13 Pro, that experienced the same issue as described 
earlier. He turned it off overnight, and this morning, VoiceOver would not 
respond when he turned it on. Neither turning up the volume, nor doing the 
three-finger double tap would fix it. He 

RE: BARD 2.0 is coming soon!

[deidreandlouise]

Joshua 
Oh, if you have a huge volume of books on your old phone, I can see why 
you would like to do an easy transfer. I am not tech savvy so I don't know why 
BARD books can't be backupped then transferred to a new phone using I Tunes. 
Does it have to do with their formatting? It would take a very long time to 
transfer an entire library, wouldn't it?
libray down
As for me, since BARD has a record of all the books "previously downloaded" I 
don't fret about it. I don't need to have them all sitting on any given phone. 
Luckily BARD downloads don't take that long.

Deidre
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Joshua 
Hendrickson
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 3:37 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: BARD 2.0 is coming soon!

On 9/16/22, Joshua Hendrickson  wrote:
> I agree.  I would very much like to have my bard books be able to 
> transfer from my iPhone 8 to my iPhone 13 pro max.  The only reason 
> why I'm keeping my iPhone 8 is because of all the bard books on it.
> Once I can get my bard books moved to my newer phone, I'll see if I 
> can sell my iPhone 8.  However, who knows how long it will be before 
> we can get our bard books on different devices.  I'm glad we are 
> getting bard mobile 2.0.  This seems like a step in the wright 
> direction.
>
> On 9/16/22, Richard Turner  wrote:
>> My apologies, the email address to write them with any 
>> suggestions/comments/questions did not copy.
>>
>> Write to nlsdownl...@loc.gov 


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RE: BARD 2.0 is coming soon!

[deidreandlouise]

Definitely all good things. I sure wish Learning Ally hadn't redone it's web 
site when they were no longer Recordings for the Blind, and made getting boks 
so arduous. I rarely use them anymore. Are they up to date on thelatest texts 
books, etc? Is anyone here still enjoying their many offereings?

   Deidre

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 11:17 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: BARD 2.0 is coming soon!

 

I particularly like the idea of being able to download directly from the search 
results.  Sometimes, I want to download a book immediately, not put it on the 
wish list and then download it.

The improved search results will also be welcome.

 

 

 

Richard

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought 
which they seldom use.” - Søren Kierkegaard

 

My web site: https://www.turner42.com  

礪

 

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mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of 
deidreandlou...@gmail.com  
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 8:15 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: RE: BARD 2.0 is coming soon!

 

   BARD is a true life line. Much of this we can do already but 
some of the added flexibility is  nice.

 

   Deidre

 

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mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of 
Richard Turner
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 11:12 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: BARD 2.0 is coming soon!

 

>From BARD Support: Note the update is due out by September 23rd it is not 
>available yet.

The email below is from BARD Support.

 

Announcing BARD Mobile for iOS 2.0

We're excited to tell you that NLS has released version 2.0 of BARD Mobile for 
iOS. In this version, the BARD Website option is replaced by a new and powerful 
search engine that has the following abilities:

"  Search by keyword, title, author, or annotation.

"  Search for either braille or audio content.

"  Use the Keyword search to search for narrators.

"  Search for items in the Music collection, including music 
appreciation and instructional materials as well as music scores.

"  Access all the options available from books in your wish list, 
Recently Added Books, etc., such as downloading directly from the search 
results page and viewing all the books by the same author or in the same series.

"  Enter an author's or narrator's name in any format and without 
quotation marks and get reliable results. 

"  Enter words from a title without quotation marks and get reliable 
results.

"  Enter multiple types of information in a Keyword search, such as 
part of a title and an author's last name or a title and narrator's name, and 
get reliable results.

"  Change the type of search after you conduct the original search.

"  Sort search results by title, author, or latest (the publication 
date).

To conduct a search, choose the Search option at the top of the Get Books 
screen, just above Wish List. Keyword is the default search type, and Audio is 
the default format. Change these settings if you like, type or dictate search 
terms in the search field, and choose Go or Search. To change the format or 
type of search from the Search Results page, select the search field at the 
top; all the options on the original search page are now available. To sort the 
search results, choose Title, Author, or Latest. To access options such as 
Download and viewing other books by the same author with VoiceOver, touch the 
title of interest, flick up or down to the desired choice, and double-tap. If 
you don't use VoiceOver, select the More info button to the right of the title, 
and then choose either Download, Add to Wish List, or More Actions.

Additionally, Version 2.0 fixes problems with:

"  Rewind controls skipping further than intended.

"  Side loading books.

"  Downloading and reading non-ASCII foreign language book titles.

The update should be available by Friday, September 23rd. We hope you enjoy it.

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RE: BARD 2.0 is coming soon!

[deidreandlouise]

   BARD is a true life line. Much of this we can do already but 
some of the added flexibility is  nice.

 

   Deidre

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 11:12 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: BARD 2.0 is coming soon!

 

>From BARD Support: Note the update is due out by September 23rd it is not 
>available yet.

The email below is from BARD Support.

 

Announcing BARD Mobile for iOS 2.0

We're excited to tell you that NLS has released version 2.0 of BARD Mobile for 
iOS. In this version, the BARD Website option is replaced by a new and powerful 
search engine that has the following abilities:

"  Search by keyword, title, author, or annotation.

"  Search for either braille or audio content.

"  Use the Keyword search to search for narrators.

"  Search for items in the Music collection, including music 
appreciation and instructional materials as well as music scores.

"  Access all the options available from books in your wish list, 
Recently Added Books, etc., such as downloading directly from the search 
results page and viewing all the books by the same author or in the same series.

"  Enter an author's or narrator's name in any format and without 
quotation marks and get reliable results. 

"  Enter words from a title without quotation marks and get reliable 
results.

"  Enter multiple types of information in a Keyword search, such as 
part of a title and an author's last name or a title and narrator's name, and 
get reliable results.

"  Change the type of search after you conduct the original search.

"  Sort search results by title, author, or latest (the publication 
date).

To conduct a search, choose the Search option at the top of the Get Books 
screen, just above Wish List. Keyword is the default search type, and Audio is 
the default format. Change these settings if you like, type or dictate search 
terms in the search field, and choose Go or Search. To change the format or 
type of search from the Search Results page, select the search field at the 
top; all the options on the original search page are now available. To sort the 
search results, choose Title, Author, or Latest. To access options such as 
Download and viewing other books by the same author with VoiceOver, touch the 
title of interest, flick up or down to the desired choice, and double-tap. If 
you don't use VoiceOver, select the More info button to the right of the title, 
and then choose either Download, Add to Wish List, or More Actions.

Additionally, Version 2.0 fixes problems with:

"  Rewind controls skipping further than intended.

"  Side loading books.

"  Downloading and reading non-ASCII foreign language book titles.

The update should be available by Friday, September 23rd. We hope you enjoy it.

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one more phone that won't talk

[deidreandlouise]

   Why would voice over not come up just because a phone was 
locked, especially when it is set to activate Siri even if the phone is 
locked?Why would the clicks be louder thatn the tone? I guess that was 
deliberate on the part of apple, but then when I first rebooted my phone after 
updating, or it rebooted itself, the Siri sound was very loud and then the 
clicks were not. Why did voice over not accompany those other sounds at a 
similar volume, even if the volume had been accidentally lowered or 
muted?updathe v

The only solution to these hick ups with entering passcodes when the phone 
stops talking, were this to be a regular happening, would be to open the phone 
with a fingerprint or facial recognition. As for me, I do no banking or 
purchasing through my phone, and though I have saved some passwords that would 
be visible to a nosey intruder, I don't even want to lock my phone. My phone is 
never outside my apartment unless I am wearing it on my body. I have never left 
a phone behind me anywhere where a stranger had had to kindly reunite it with 
me, or a less virtuous character steal off with it. 

   The fewer strokes or gestures or touch of the phone, the better. 
I don't use Hey Siri either though that would be most convenient. I don't want 
the added battery drain. I need to get a batter pack to extend the life of my 
phone, but haven't made that call yet, and it took awhile before I found out to 
look under Accessories on the Apple page to be in the right area to find them.

   What I am happy about with this update is that the apps I use 
daily have not changed in structure so I don't have to take great note of new 
names for things. All the renaming of simple Tabs used to drive me crazy. I 
jumped from 14 something to 16 and other than the initial gliches, it's ok, 
except that the tone for when Siri is listening is impossible to hear nless I 
turn the volume of Siri up a tad beyond what I find desirable.

 

   Deidre

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RE: now the phone won't talk

[deidreandlouise]

Bill
I tried and tried and tried that. It appears as though voice over was indeed on 
though so I'm not sure why the side volume buttons weren't working, until today 
when someone started hitting numbers on the screen which did become visible 
after the screen curtain off gesture worked. You are right too that I have 
turned the volume way off a few times in my I Phone user life, and it 
frustrated me to no end until using the side buttons to push it back up. 
That's a great closing quote by RWE.
Deidre

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Bill 
Gallik
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 4:22 PM
To: viPhone  
Subject: Re: now the phone won't talk

Specifically for Dedra, but quite possibly others may benefit.

I want to suggest that perhaps - if you are holding the iPhone on the sides as 
I’ve been known to do - that perhaps you have turned the volume down to 0.  
I’ve done this several times and I find that when I execute the 3-tap on the 
home button and there is no verbal notice of VoiceOver being turned off or on, 
that it’s possible that the volume has been completely muted.  It doesn’t seem 
to take much to accidentally mute the volume at all, give it a try and 
hopefully it will help you out.


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RE: BARD on the Echo 10- my mistake

[deidreandlouise]

Hello all 

I’m sorry I got you all excited about accessing BARD on an Echo device. I just 
realized it was NFB Newsline I never got working on the Echo. I just opened it 
and told it I wanted to read the New Yorker which is in my favorites. It 
started reading something at such a rapid rate, it was total gibberish. Alexa 
would not allow me to change the rate of speech by simply talking to the 
device. I might have to do that from the screen or the Alexa App.

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Monday, August 1, 2022 11:16 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: BARD on the Echo 10

 

I wonder if someone confused Bookshare with BARD?

Bookshare has a skill for Echo devices that I believe is still in beta, and 
when I tried it a few months ago, was not worth the trouble.

BARD certainly is not on Echo yet.

If I'm wrong, someone please cite the source for their information.

 

 

 

 

Richard

“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little 
consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin

My web site: https://www.turner42.com

 





On Aug 1, 2022, at 8:10 AM, Alan Lemly mailto:wale...@gmail.com> > wrote:



Donna, 

 

BARD most definitely cannot be currently accessed on an Echo device. NLS is 
currently working on making BARD available on these devices but nothing has 
been announced about when this will happen. I expect it will take some time. 

 

Alan Lemly 

 

Sent from my iPhone





On Aug 1, 2022, at 9:25 AM, Donna Casteen mailto:mermaid71...@gmail.com> > wrote:



Wait...What, Bard Mobile can now be accessed from an Echo device??? Where can I 
find info on how to do this?

 

Donna

 

 



Can someone tell me the best place to get info on how to read BARD Books using 
an Echo device?  It's not intuitive at all. I activated it on my Echo 10 but 
haven't succeededin getting abook  to load up, even if it has been downloaded 
on my phone. 

 

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RE: BARD on the Echo 10

[deidreandlouise]

Thanks. That would be doable. I did activate something called a BARD skill but 
never figured out what it could do.

 

 

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Blackburn
Sent: Monday, August 1, 2022 10:50 AM
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As yet, no skill is available for reading BARD books. If you have BARD Mobile 
on an iPhone or other device that can bluetooth connect to your Echo, that 
would be the way to hear the books on your Echo.

Kathy Blackburn
kblac...@austin.rr.com  

On Aug 1, 2022 9:28 AM, Mickey Quenzer mailto:mickey.quen...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Hello: I haven’t heard about this can you get me more information so I can help 
you?

On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 9:17 AM mailto:deidreandlou...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Can someone tell me the best place to get info on how to read BARD Books using 
an Echo device?  It's not intuitive at all. I activated it on my Echo 10 but 
haven't succeededin getting abook  to load up, even if it has been downloaded 
on my phone. 

 

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BARD on the Echo 10

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Can someone tell me the best place to get info on how to read BARD Books using 
an Echo device?  It's not intuitive at all. I activated it on my Echo 10 but 
haven't succeededin getting abook  to load up, even if it has been downloaded 
on my phone. 

 

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RE: netflix newby

[deidreandlouise]

I find Netflix to have a very easy app to navigate. Often such apps work better 
on the web than they do on the app, which for those that do work well, they 
make it so much easier to use the particular vendor.

   Navigate by heading and you will find everything you need.

 

   Deidre

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Chris 
Chaffin
Sent: Monday, August 1, 2022 9:38 AM
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Subject: Re: netflix newby

 

 

I also just chose category from the main screen, and Audio Description is one 
of the choices you can choose.  After you choose it from the list of 
categories, you will be in a list of movies and shows that have audio 
description.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Chris

 





On Aug 1, 2022, at 9:23 AM, Tom Rash mailto:dadnthed...@gmail.com> > wrote:

I think you can also do a search on netflicks for audio description and it 
should take you to the category of described movies.





On Aug 1, 2022, at 4:44 AM, Chris Chaffin mailto:chaffin102...@gmail.com> > wrote:

 

 

Here is a list of movie and TV Shows that are described on Netflix. It is 
updated regularly.

 

https://adp.acb.org/netflixad.html

 

Hope this helps.

 

Chris

 





On Aug 1, 2022, at 4:34 AM, Mo Khan mailto:mk3386...@gmail.com> > wrote:



hi, 

There’s a filter that says audio described films
It’s hard to find sometimes and different places depending on if using on iPad 
or tv
ask someone sighted to help you find if yiu cannot find it

good luck.

thank you.

Mo.

 

On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 6:36 PM Paula Jordan mailto:pau...@roadrunner.com> > wrote:

Hi all.  I’ve just recently gotten interested in Netflix and wonder how you can 
find out if a movie has audio description.  Any advice would be most 
appreciated. 

Thanks in advance.

God bless!

Paula and the pups

 

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RE: echo and echo dot

[deidreandlouise]

The object identification for the Echo Show is very slow and that's probably 
because you need to know where you are standing for the camera to get the best 
view. I didn't find it useful. My original Echo which is round with no screen 
works great. The ones with screens miss a lot but I can't say if that is more 
due to my internet or that they are far from fool proof. For the most part, I 
love having them and use mine each day. If you don't need a screen for any 
reason, don't bother buying the more expensive ones. Read the specs for each 
device so you know what you are paying for. I bought an Echo 5 inch screenn one 
for something like $33 a year or so ago for a friend,  and she loves it. I can 
ask her to check in on my dog while I am away if I have any concerns. Amazon 
had all kinds of promotional stuff when I bought my Echo 5 with a little screen 
and my Echo 10 and between a sale price and a promotional extra many dollars 
off, I got a great deal on all of them.

 

   Deidre

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
kheve...@fuse.net
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2022 2:17 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: echo and echo dot

 

Dan, I have used both the second and third generation of the echo dot.  I think 
the third generation has much better sound quality.  It also has tactil markers 
for all controls.  I also tried the echo show 2.  It has a camera and even 
better sound quality that the echo dot.  A friend who has significant hearing 
loss got it.  It claims to identify product labels, etc.  I found it much more 
difficult to set up than the echo dot.  For whatever reason, I had trouble 
getting it to tell me what various things were.  Maybe I did not give it enough 
time.  I returned mine for a total refund.  Am pretty sure you would be able to 
return the echo dot for full refund too.  

 

On a different tone, I like your ham call.  I’m W8TDA

73 Kitty 

 

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mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of 
llump...@austin.rr.com  
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2022 1:35 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: RE: echo and echo dot

 

The Echo Dot can be had for less than $50 and is worth a try. You’ll probably 
have to set it up through the Alexa app on your phone and you’ll need an amazon 
account to link it to. Once set up, it should be fairly straight forward to 
use. If it doesn’t work out, You can probably return it to amazon.

 

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com   
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of Dan
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2022 12:31 PM
To: 'cwc' via VIPhone mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> >
Subject: echo and echo dot

 

Hi all,

 

I recall seeing a fairly extensive discussion about these and other devices but 
didn't pay much attention then because I didn't need one for myself.  I still 
do not need one for myself but my Mom who is 89 this year and is not very tech 
savvied has lost almost all of her sight and doesn't want to use VO or talkback 
on her phone.  I am thinking of getting one of these because after demoing 
giving voice commands to my Iphone she is now interested in doing something 
similar but not to her phone.  Her occupational therapist has convinced her 
that devices like echos and echo dots are more accurate and would work better 
for her.  She says this is based on her experience as an OT. 

 

My question is this, which devices seem the most forgiving for less than 
perfect speech when giving voice commands?  We also do not want to spend a ton 
of money in case this doesn't work out well for her.

 

Any thoughts/ideas greatly appreciated.

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RE: Aira and Be my eyes

[deidreandlouise]

Brandon
The point is that I get a better connection with BE MY EYES and I am sharing 
minutes with someone for Aira. The fact that I get a clear call now and again 
when using Aira seems to suggest the problem is at Aira's end. I need to call 
their technical support to see what they can figure out about that. In years 
past I didn't have that trouble. I ordered my SE second generation with someone 
in Mexico through Aira and thatwasover 2 years ago.Nothng has changed with my 
internet set up since that time.
I also thoroughly enjoy  the kind of person who volunteers for BME. They are 
always personable, and you can feel the world that surrounds them - you might 
hear a child in the background, find out someone is in the service and 
stationed overseas, or picking up in the UK or other parts of the world. I love 
it.

Deidre

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A. Olivares
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2022 9:08 AM
To: VIPhone 
Subject: Re: Aira and Be my eyes

That's odd, I've rarely had a bad connection with Aira. I don't get the point 
of Be My Eyes when I pay for an Aira subscription.

> On May 10, 2022, at 9:00 AM,  
>  wrote:
> 
> I love BE MY Eyes volunteers. They might be anywhere in the world and have 
> helped me do all kinds of jobs. For ordering things on-line through Aira's 
> help, that has been great. For screen shotting things by an Aira 
> representative, that has been fabulous too. Problem with Aira is that 4 out 
> of every 5 connections is bad with blurry screens, lapses in sound, all kinds 
> of technical glitches which makes it easier to call Be My Eyes volunteers for 
> simplerjobs. I can't remember ever having a bad connection with BE MY EYES 
> volunteers, and that might well be a fluke, I can't say.
> 
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Aira and Be my eyes

[deidreandlouise]

I love BE MY Eyes volunteers. They might be anywhere in the world and have 
helped me do all kinds of jobs. For ordering things on-line through Aira's 
help, that has been great. For screen shotting things by an Aira 
representative, that has been fabulous too. Problem with Aira is that 4 out of 
every 5 connections is bad with blurry screens, lapses in sound, all kinds of 
technical glitches which makes it easier to call Be My Eyes volunteers for 
simplerjobs. I can't remember ever having a bad connection with BE MY EYES 
volunteers, and that might well be a fluke, I can't say.

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gas meter read outs

[deidreandlouise]

Hello all

Is anyone using a "gas meter" to get a continuous read out of levels of things 
like CO(carbon monoxide) and VOC'S (vollatile organic compounds)? I want to buy 
one but worry that taking a screen shot of the digital display then using a 
scanning program to decipher the read out won't be doable. I don't know how 
small the print is on these devices or if they are in different colored panels 
for the different measurements they are taking that might make reading the scan 
difficult or impossible.  It would be nice if these devices had built in chips 
to record a given time's reading, if asked to record it andhold it in memory. 
Then that data could be transferred to a fle and the data studied and compiled 
in some app or manually by the user.

Is anyone using this kind of technology with any of their phone scanning apps?

 

   Deidre

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the audio vault

[deidreandlouise]

Richard
I saw the contact link. I'll do it  on the phone, since that is where I 
primarily pull up movies, podcasts, books, etc. All those things are the things 
that keeps me sane.

Deidre
-Original Message-
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richardr_tur...@comcast.net
Sent: Sunday, January 9, 2022 11:27 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: BARD and the Locked screen

Well, there should have been a place to enter your email and such and an option 
to create an account.

But, when in doubt, always look for a contact link:  
You can email them at:
audiovault@gmail.com

HTH,


Richard
“One can’t be angry when one looks at a penguin.” ~ John Ruskin

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Richard
I just went to the audio vault and saw no way to sign up. Am I daft or 
what? I typed in Boys In The Hood to see what might come up and I saw nothing 
relevant, just a table with a few headings and no info.
P.S. I saw your sign off. Yes Penguins might make you smile rather than feel 
angry due to their lovely communal generous and committed ways of being, but 
the destruction of their ice habitats may wreck your peace of mind.

Deidre
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Duane,

The Audio Vault has the mp3 file of E.T. with audio description.
It is free.  It is just the audio, of course.
You just \sign up with your email and you can go in and search for either 
movies or TV shows.  Tip, the first search field on the view all TV shows or 
all movies is to order by date, skip that and use the second search field which 
is by keyword.

Here is the direct link to the search results on that page, which won't 
probably help until you have an account.

https://www.audiovault.net/movies?search=e.t.




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RE: BARD and the Locked screen

[deidreandlouise]

Oh, I see what Richard has written below. maybe I am daft afterall. As for me, 
I looked it up on my laptop. So many things are streamlined and easier to use 
on the phone. I'll do that next. VDR it is. 
Deidre
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You should be able to download onto your phone.  Try triple tapping on the link 
and see if you can either download to the Files app, or better yet, right into 
Voice Dream Reader.

HTH,

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RE: BARD and the Locked screen

[deidreandlouise]

Richard
I just went to the audio vault and saw no way to sign up. Am I daft or 
what? I typed in Boys In The Hood to see what might come up and I saw nothing 
relevant, just a table with a few headings and no info.
P.S. I saw your sign off. Yes Penguins might make you smile rather than feel 
angry due to their lovely communal generous and committed ways of being, but 
the destruction of their ice habitats may wreck your peace of mind.

Deidre
-Original Message-
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Subject: RE: BARD and the Locked screen

Duane,

The Audio Vault has the mp3 file of E.T. with audio description.
It is free.  It is just the audio, of course.
You just \sign up with your email and you can go in and search for either 
movies or TV shows.  Tip, the first search field on the view all TV shows or 
all movies is to order by date, skip that and use the second search field which 
is by keyword.

Here is the direct link to the search results on that page, which won't 
probably help until you have an account.

https://www.audiovault.net/movies?search=e.t.




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going no mail

[deidreandlouise]

Hello all

I'm wondering how fool proof it is to go nomail on this list for 3 or 4
days, with the prospect of switching daily delivery back on. It seems in
years past that I had a problem with this. I say years past, so maybe things
are better now.

 

   Deidre

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RE: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

[deidreandlouise]

   I just ordered it.

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 2:19 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

 

They are probably talking about some simpler adapters, but I know this one 
works quite well.

And, if you have your charger plugged into it, you can access thumb drives, as 
in, USB memory sticks.

But the USB keyboard seems to not need any power.  I haven’t used it long 
enough to know if there is much battery drain; but I’d be surprised if there 
was.

The USB keyboard I have has the designated keys for volume up and down and they 
work fine as well.

 

Enjoy, 

 

 

Richard

Software means never having to say you're finished

 

Web site:   www.turner42.com

 

 

 

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deidreandlou...@gmail.com  
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 11:13 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: RE: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

 

Oh funny, the tech who coached me this morning said it only cost around $12. If 
it does what I hope it can do, it's worth it.

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com   
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of 
Richard Turner
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 2:12 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: RE: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

 

Here is the link on Amazon.

It seems to be on sale right now for $34.47.

Amazon.com: Apple Lightning to USB3 Camera Adapter: Electronics

 

HTH,

 

Richard

Software means never having to say you're finished

 

Web site:  

 www.turner42.com

 

 

 

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deidreandlou...@gmail.com  
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 11:06 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: RE: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

 

   Here came Richard to the rescue once more!

 

   d

 

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com   
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of 
Richard Turner
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 2:00 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: Re: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

 

I have the lightning to USB camera adapter from Apple.  I am writing this on a 
generic USB QWERTY keyboard with no power connected. 

So,I know it can work.

I'll try and find the link to the exact adapter but I'm pretty sure it is just 
called Lightning to USB 3 Camera adapter.

It has a standard female USB A host port, a lightning port for power if you 
need it and a short cable that plugs into the lightning port on the iPhone.

Î

 

Richard 

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss 
people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

www.turner42.com 

 

 

 

On Jun 28, 2021, at 10:39 AM, deidreandlou...@gmail.com 
  wrote:

Rob,
   I heard that there would be some added battery drain. I'll try it out with 
my wireless keyboard, but all the same the adapter wil have to plug into the 
phone. I do not have one in my possession yet because I did not find what 
sounded like the right product when I did a search.

Deidre

-Original Message-
From: 'RobH.' via VIPhone mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > 
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 1:32 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: Re: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone
Think it would help if this keyboard was battery/self-powered.  The phone will 
nottt support a full keyboard running off it.
- Original Message - 
From: mailto:deidreandlou...@gmail.com> >
To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> >
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 6:05 PM
Subject: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

Hello
I just heard about an adapter that allows you to use your USB keyboard to
write on the iPhone. The little nub for a wireless keyboard would plug into
the adapter and the other end would plug in where the charger plugs in.
Would 

RE: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

[deidreandlouise]

Oh funny, the tech who coached me this morning said it only cost around $12. If 
it does what I hope it can do, it's worth it.

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 2:12 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

 

Here is the link on Amazon.

It seems to be on sale right now for $34.47.

Amazon.com: Apple Lightning to USB3 Camera Adapter: Electronics 

 

 

HTH,

 

Richard

Software means never having to say you're finished

 

Web site:   www.turner42.com

 

 

 

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deidreandlou...@gmail.com  
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 11:06 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: RE: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

 

   Here came Richard to the rescue once more!

 

   d

 

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com   
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of 
Richard Turner
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 2:00 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: Re: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

 

I have the lightning to USB camera adapter from Apple.  I am writing this on a 
generic USB QWERTY keyboard with no power connected. 

So,I know it can work.

I'll try and find the link to the exact adapter but I'm pretty sure it is just 
called Lightning to USB 3 Camera adapter.

It has a standard female USB A host port, a lightning port for power if you 
need it and a short cable that plugs into the lightning port on the iPhone.

Î

 

Richard 

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss 
people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

www.turner42.com 

 

 

 

On Jun 28, 2021, at 10:39 AM, deidreandlou...@gmail.com 
  wrote:

Rob,
   I heard that there would be some added battery drain. I'll try it out with 
my wireless keyboard, but all the same the adapter wil have to plug into the 
phone. I do not have one in my possession yet because I did not find what 
sounded like the right product when I did a search.

Deidre

-Original Message-
From: 'RobH.' via VIPhone mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > 
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 1:32 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: Re: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone
Think it would help if this keyboard was battery/self-powered.  The phone will 
nottt support a full keyboard running off it.
- Original Message - 
From: mailto:deidreandlou...@gmail.com> >
To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> >
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 6:05 PM
Subject: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

Hello
I just heard about an adapter that allows you to use your USB keyboard to
write on the iPhone. The little nub for a wireless keyboard would plug into
the adapter and the other end would plug in where the charger plugs in.
Would this work on an SE2020? I'd prefer using my regular keyboard to using
the bluetooth keyboard.

  Deidre

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RE: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

[deidreandlouise]

Oh, so I too need to get a cheap wired usb keyboard or are you saying that all 
I need to do is lug the adapter into the phone and put the little wireless nub 
in there?

 From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 2:06 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

 

No, your wireless keyboard needs no wires.

This is a wired adapter.

 

I’m not sure why a wireless keyboard would need anything other than the iPhone.

 

 

 

Richard

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Web site:   www.turner42.com

 

 

 

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deidreandlou...@gmail.com  
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 11:05 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: RE: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

 

Oh, I saw that, but that would be the same thing I'd use to hook up my wireless 
keyboard?

 

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com   
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of 
Richard Turner
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 2:00 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: Re: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

 

I have the lightning to USB camera adapter from Apple.  I am writing this on a 
generic USB QWERTY keyboard with no power connected. 

So,I know it can work.

I'll try and find the link to the exact adapter but I'm pretty sure it is just 
called Lightning to USB 3 Camera adapter.

It has a standard female USB A host port, a lightning port for power if you 
need it and a short cable that plugs into the lightning port on the iPhone.

Î

 

Richard 

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss 
people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

www.turner42.com 

 

 

 

On Jun 28, 2021, at 10:39 AM, deidreandlou...@gmail.com 
  wrote:

Rob,
   I heard that there would be some added battery drain. I'll try it out with 
my wireless keyboard, but all the same the adapter wil have to plug into the 
phone. I do not have one in my possession yet because I did not find what 
sounded like the right product when I did a search.

Deidre

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Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 1:32 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: Re: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone
Think it would help if this keyboard was battery/self-powered.  The phone will 
nottt support a full keyboard running off it.
- Original Message - 
From: 
To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> >
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 6:05 PM
Subject: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

Hello
I just heard about an adapter that allows you to use your USB keyboard to
write on the iPhone. The little nub for a wireless keyboard would plug into
the adapter and the other end would plug in where the charger plugs in.
Would this work on an SE2020? I'd prefer using my regular keyboard to using
the bluetooth keyboard.

  Deidre

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RE: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

[deidreandlouise]

   Here came Richard to the rescue once more!

 

   d

 

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 2:00 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

 

I have the lightning to USB camera adapter from Apple.  I am writing this on a 
generic USB QWERTY keyboard with no power connected. 

So,I know it can work.

I'll try and find the link to the exact adapter but I'm pretty sure it is just 
called Lightning to USB 3 Camera adapter.

It has a standard female USB A host port, a lightning port for power if you 
need it and a short cable that plugs into the lightning port on the iPhone.

Î

 

Richard 

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people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

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On Jun 28, 2021, at 10:39 AM, deidreandlou...@gmail.com 
  wrote:

Rob,
   I heard that there would be some added battery drain. I'll try it out with 
my wireless keyboard, but all the same the adapter wil have to plug into the 
phone. I do not have one in my possession yet because I did not find what 
sounded like the right product when I did a search.

Deidre

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From: 'RobH.' via VIPhone mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > 
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 1:32 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
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Think it would help if this keyboard was battery/self-powered.  The phone will 
nottt support a full keyboard running off it.
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From: mailto:deidreandlou...@gmail.com> >
To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> >
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 6:05 PM
Subject: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

Hello
I just heard about an adapter that allows you to use your USB keyboard to
write on the iPhone. The little nub for a wireless keyboard would plug into
the adapter and the other end would plug in where the charger plugs in.
Would this work on an SE2020? I'd prefer using my regular keyboard to using
the bluetooth keyboard.

  Deidre

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RE: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

[deidreandlouise]

Oh, I saw that, but that would be the same thing I'd use to hook up my wireless 
keyboard?

 

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 2:00 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

 

I have the lightning to USB camera adapter from Apple.  I am writing this on a 
generic USB QWERTY keyboard with no power connected. 

So,I know it can work.

I'll try and find the link to the exact adapter but I'm pretty sure it is just 
called Lightning to USB 3 Camera adapter.

It has a standard female USB A host port, a lightning port for power if you 
need it and a short cable that plugs into the lightning port on the iPhone.

Î

 

Richard 

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people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

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  wrote:

Rob,
   I heard that there would be some added battery drain. I'll try it out with 
my wireless keyboard, but all the same the adapter wil have to plug into the 
phone. I do not have one in my possession yet because I did not find what 
sounded like the right product when I did a search.

Deidre

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Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 1:32 PM
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Subject: Re: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone
Think it would help if this keyboard was battery/self-powered.  The phone will 
nottt support a full keyboard running off it.
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From: mailto:deidreandlou...@gmail.com> >
To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> >
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 6:05 PM
Subject: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

Hello
I just heard about an adapter that allows you to use your USB keyboard to
write on the iPhone. The little nub for a wireless keyboard would plug into
the adapter and the other end would plug in where the charger plugs in.
Would this work on an SE2020? I'd prefer using my regular keyboard to using
the bluetooth keyboard.

  Deidre

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RE: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

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Rob,
I heard that there would be some added battery drain. I'll try it out 
with my wireless keyboard, but all the same the adapter wil have to plug into 
the phone. I do not have one in my possession yet because I did not find what 
sounded like the right product when I did a search.
 
Deidre

-Original Message-
From: 'RobH.' via VIPhone  
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 1:32 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone
Think it would help if this keyboard was battery/self-powered.  The phone will 
nottt support a full keyboard running off it.
- Original Message - 
From: 
To: 
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 6:05 PM
Subject: adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

Hello
I just heard about an adapter that allows you to use your USB keyboard to
write on the iPhone. The little nub for a wireless keyboard would plug into
the adapter and the other end would plug in where the charger plugs in.
Would this work on an SE2020? I'd prefer using my regular keyboard to using
the bluetooth keyboard.

   Deidre

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RE: Accessible App for a Good Robot Vacuum Machine

[deidreandlouise]

I just looked it up on Amazon and the only one I found was refurbished. It 
didn't get very good ratings for deep cleaning, but those reviews can't always 
be trusted.
I already own the most basic I Robot model, which I love, but it definitely is 
not smart when it comes to mapping out the rooms because it is not wi-fi 
enabled. It Beware, I hear that it will gather info about your layout and Alexa 
or Amazon might start making suggestions about what you should buy to fill that 
empty corner space in your middle room! My basic steadfast little I Robot 
randomly searches out dirt acoustically then stays stuck on that spot until it 
is clean, and clean it, it certainly does. I also hear the brushes on these 
robotic vacuums as opposed to the silicone rollers catch a lot of hair and are 
hard to clean. 
Please let us know how this Shark Ninja works out for the new purchaser! I can 
testify that my little Ninja blender/juicer works great. It has a very powerful 
motor for such a tiny machine.

Deidre
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Simon A 
Fogarty
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 11:22 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Accessible App for a Good Robot Vacuum Machine

Just from the name,
I want one!

A shark ninja
That just sounds cool.

Will it eat small children if they get in the way?

A friend of mine would love it for the name also but he's got two small kids.

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Ann Byrne
Sent: Monday, 28 June 2021 11:37 pm
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Accessible App for a Good Robot Vacuum Machine

It's a Shark Ninja, carpet/floor cleaner that wanders around the house eating 
dog hair and anything else it can find.
At 10:00 PM 6/27/2021, you wrote:
>Sorry I'm missing something here,
>
>I know sharks swim in the sea,
>
>But what is this shark you speak of re vacuuming
>
>
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>From: viphone@googlegroups.com
> On Behalf Of Ann Byrne
>Sent: Monday, 28 June 2021 2:14 pm
>To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>Subject: Re: Accessible App for a Good Robot Vacuum Machine
>
>I have a Shark, and it cleans better than my roomba did.  We have three 
>dogs, though, and it was hard for the Roomba to keep up.  The app works 
>well with the iPhone.
>
>It's expensive, though.
>At 08:33 PM 6/27/2021, you wrote:
>
> >Hi Aleeha,
> >
> >
> >Thanks for sharing. I̢۪ll check it out!
>!
> >
> >
> >Cheering for you!
> >Danny
> >
> >
> >On 27 Jun 2021, at 12:12 PM, Aleeha Dudley
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> >
> >Hi,
> >Tha app for the Shark robot seems to be pretty good, although 
> >mine̢۪s
>
> >not set up yet. I just bought it on prime Day.
> >Hope that helps,
> >Aleeha
> >
> >>On Jun 27, 2021, at 10:45 AM, Danny Leung 
> >><dlng321.mob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>Hi listers,
> >>
> >>I am planning to purchase a wireless Robot vacuum machine. If you 
> >>own one, may I know your pinion and recommendation? You can email me 
> >>privately if needed.
> >>
> >>I am most interest to know about the accessibility of the app; the 
> >>model that is worth the value. And everything̢۪s else.
>.
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance for your input.
> >>
> >>
> >>Grateful for you!
> >>Danny
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adapter for USB keyboard and iPhone

[deidreandlouise]

Hello

I just heard about an adapter that allows you to use your USB keyboard to
write on the iPhone. The little nub for a wireless keyboard would plug into
the adapter and the other end would plug in where the charger plugs in.
Would this work on an SE2020? I'd prefer using my regular keyboard to using
the bluetooth keyboard.

 

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RE: Amazon Alexa App Problem

[deidreandlouise]

Edward, and others
You can turn on airplane mode through the device itself. Is that what 
you did, or did you turn it off on your phone?
I'm having allkinds of problems with my Echo 10. It no longer calls my 
phone when I ask it to call me. It says it will call the Alexa App instead 
which I don't want because I never have it open unless I want to adjust 
settings. For days it would not stop what was playing when I asked. I noticed 
this was the case if an ad was playing, but then it started doing it when I was 
playing podcasts. It seems to have gotten itself together since that interval 
of days.
There is a place on the phone, and possibly on the device too, to 
update the App, so that might be in order.
Never hesitate to call the number on Amazon's main page that is listed 
towards the bottom of the page. It provides a link for customers with 
disabilities. I haven't called it in awhile, but you will be put through to 
technical support. I can't remember now if this was under a heading for the 
Alexa App or not, but it is on the opening page when you go to the on-line 
shopping site.
The customer service is excellent and fast. You will not be on hold for 
long. They willalso send you follow-up information if you ask for it.

Deidre

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Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 11:26 AM
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Subject: RE: Amazon Alexa App Problem

Hi all,

The first things I tried were shutting down and restarting my iPhone and then I 
tried resetting the phone.  None of this made a difference.  Last night, I 
spent a lot of time doing some research on the Internet and trying a number of 
solutions that people suggested.  I finally found a post that recommended 
turning off and then turning on airplane mode.  I didn't hold out much hope for 
this solution but I was getting a bit desperate.  I have numerous Amazon 
devices around the house and I didn't want to lose all the information about 
these devices stored in the Alexa app.  Surprisingly, turning off and then 
turning on airplane mode solved the problem.  I don't know what airplane mode 
has to do with the Alexa app but I'm glad to have things working again.  Thanks.

Take care,
Ed Przybylek


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Vicky Collins
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 10:18 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Amazon Alexa App Problem

I had the exact same thing happen to me on two of my phones yesterday after 
updating the Amazon Shopping app. Uninstalling the app, then doing a reboot, 
and then installing the app again solved the problem. And yes, I did have to 
sign back into the app as well as fix its notification settings.

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From: Jennie Facer  
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Date: Wednesday, June 23, 2021 10:40 pm
Subject: Re: Amazon Alexa App Problem

>
>
> Hi,
> 
> Hmm that is strange. Try reinstalling the app maybe? Remember that you 
> will have to have your Amazon sign-in info to get back in. You won't lose any 
> of your data on Alexa or anything if you do this. Also maybe even before 
> that, restart your phone? Is this the only App it is doing thi to?
> 
> Jenn
> 
> Jenn and Kumi
> 
> > On Jun 23, 2021, at 7:34 PM, Edward Przybylek  
> > wrote:
> > his
> > Hi all,
> >  
> > Tonight I tried to open the Amazon Alexa app to opt out of the Amazon 
> > Sidewalk feature.  I double tapped the app on my home page after which 
> > there was a delay and I was returned back to the home page with focus still 
> > on the Amazon Alexa app.  I opened the app switcher and found the app 
> > listed there.  Double tapping the app, however, simply returned me to the 
> > home page with focus still on the app.  I then tried the same exercise on 
> > my iPod Touch 7 with the exact same results.  Has anyone else experienced 
> > this problem?  If so, were you able to find a solution?  As always, any 
> > help is greatly appreciated.  Stay healthy.
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RE: Native Podcasts app

[deidreandlouise]

Library Tab definitely needs to be selected.

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To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Native Podcasts app

I didn't do anything special, and I was able to view the episodes in a podcast. 
I just went to the library, tapped on the podcast I was interested in and was 
able to scroll down through the list of episodes. I had to flick right quite a 
bit to get into the list, and there was a see more episodes button at the end.

--
Christopher (AKA CJ)
Chaltain at Outlook

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Sent: Saturday, May 1, 2021 1:00 PM
To: V IPhone List 
Subject: Native Podcasts app

I am having trouble navigating episode lists in the native Podcasts app. I used 
to know how to do this, and don’t know if I am forgetting a step or if there is 
a new bug in the process with VoiceOver. 
My example is searching for Airacast, which I found but could only see the most 
recent episode. I see that this year’s episodes are listed but can’t navigate 
to any others even when I use the see all button. 
I just upgraded to 14.5 on my iPhone 8 Plus. 
Bill Outman 


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RE: Native podcasts app

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It should be a setting you change in Settigs under Podcasts. Or maybe it is in 
the Settings Tab in the Podcast App. It's there that you choose options to 
download, be notified, only see most recent episode, see oldest to newest, etc.
hth

Deidre
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I can’t seem to navigate episode lists. Even when I use the see all button I 
only see the most recent posting. Am I missing a step or is this a new 
VoiceOver bug? I am using iOS 14.5 on an 8 Plus. 
Bill Outman 


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reminder alerts back on track

[deidreandlouise]

Heelo

I don't know what I tweaked that worked - banners which would not stay
selected, or something in sounds, but my alerts are once more reading the
entire title of the Reminder. Thank goodness. I've missed a few too many
alerts in the last month and don't want to have to pick my phone up and
check manually for them.

   I guess I could use the Echo, but I try to keep it
uncluttered of that kind of stuff. I'm ot sure that makes sense, but the
least build up of extraneous stuff it stores, not to my advantage, kind of
rubs me wrong.

 

   One of my Echoes went off-line and I haven't figured that out
yet either. I guess I'll call Amazon customer service for customers with
disabilities. The tech service is excellent and is very easy to get through
to quickly.

 

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beta testing

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I would urge beta testers to do a lot of the testing of features  not just from 
bluetooth keyboards but through touching and tapping and swiping on the screen. 
I think things have been overlooked in the past in regard to swiping vs things 
that work real well for those using bluetooth keyboards or braile devices with 
their phones.

 

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RE: At My Wits End With The Native Mail App On IOS 14.4.1

[deidreandlouise]

Richard,

Since you mentioned this a few weeks ago, I have been doing this, and it works. 
I also sometimes just turn off threading temporarily if I don't want to deal 
with any added swiping and fussing. For a thread as long as a few mentioned 
here, well, wow, I can't even imagine such a thread!

 

   Deidre

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Yes, it is a problem especially with longer threads. 

I don't keep that many messages in one thread, but if a thread happens to have 
15 or 20 messages, I can experience that, so what I do is before opening the 
thread, flick up with one finger to expand thread.

Then, it lists them out separately so it is like not having threading on until 
you go back to the top of the group and fllick up to collapse thread and double 
tap.

HTH,

 

 

Richard 

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss 
people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

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nope you're not alone. this happens more with longer threads.

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On Apr 13, 2021, at 11:32 PM, Tom Lange mailto:lang...@gmail.com> > wrote:

 

Hi,

Excuse me while I vent, as I’ve become increasingly frustrated with the native 
IOS mail app.  I’ve been using iPhones since the iphone 4  came along in 2010 
or 2011, and I’ve used Mail with my GMail account, which has been around since 
2007.

Over the years there have always been focus issues in message lists, and when 
ovening message threads for the first time I will rarely land on message 1. 
Then, when opening a message in the thread and using the Messages item in the  
rotor to move to the next message, I may get bounced back to a message that’s 
way earlier in the thread than the one that I intended to move to. For example, 
let’s say I’m on message 50 of 120 in the thread. I use Messages in the  rotor 
and select Next Message. In this example, I might get bounced back to Message 
21. 

These are just a couple of situations that are frustrating me like crazy.

I could try the GMail app or Outlook for Ios, but I like the native mail app 
for the most part and am realy surprised that Apple hasn’t managed to make the 
damn thing behave. 

Surely I’m not the only one who’s having focus issues such as I’ve described 
above.

 

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RE: More obsessing over Airpods Max

[deidreandlouise]

   Good job Richard. It was good to hear your voice for the first 
time.

 

Deidre

 

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I put up a kind of dumb, but hopefully helpful, short sample recording to help 
folks hear what the Airpods Max sound like if you are on a call or recording.

www.turner42.com/JPR.mp3  

 

 

 

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testing Press Record

[deidreandlouise]

Richard,

Whew , what an offer. Don't exhaust yourself!you will see or say, now way, it 
will be impossible. I fear the pproblem will be the 4 or so voices that speak 
interchangeably. Like I said though, any amount of transcription that could 
save me time typing would be helpful. Set me straight if no transcription 
programs would be capable of this, and please simplify things for me and tell 
me what such apps are best at, and most useful for. 

The podcast is This Week in Virology. The banter at the beginning and the 
favorite PICS at the end of the show do not need to be transcribed. The emails 
that they read towards the end of most shows are information packed, so I'd 
love to be able to study them closely in order to repeat some of the details 
I've heard.

   Once a week there is something called a Clinical Update with 
Daniel Griffin, and that is only him speaking until towards the end of the 
show. I access the podcast using my iphone and the native podcast app, but here 
is a link to last Sunday's episode which is one of the clinical updates, which 
these days all pertain to Covid: 

https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-734-2/

 

Deidre

   

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Turner
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 10:47 AM
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Subject: RE: Otter and other transcription Apps

 

I’m not sure which recording apps other than Just Press Record offer 
transcription.

It is done after the recording is finished I think.  It is $4.99.

Since I already have it, if you point me to a program you want I’ll see if I 
can download and import the file and see how it does with it.

 

 

 

Richard

 

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realize that you are in a hurry.

 

 

My web site, www.turner42.com  

 

 

 

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Subject: Otter and other transcription Apps

 

Hello all,

I am looking for a transcription program that can transcribe recordings from a 
loudspeaker into text. I do not intend to speak directly into a device for 
transcription but will take what I want transcribed from a recording. It's 
possible,if I have to, that I could repeat what I hear while wearing ear hones 
but I fear transcription programs cant' receive information that fast.

There are some science programs I want transcriptions for, at least some 
sections of them, and there is no way I could type out what I hear for such 
long interviews, shows, podcasts. I would be able to stop and pause so that 
might help. 

   Any suggestions? 

 

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Otter and other transcription Apps

[deidreandlouise]

Hello all,

I am looking for a transcription program that can transcribe recordings from
a loudspeaker into text. I do not intend to speak directly into a device for
transcription but will take what I want transcribed from a recording. It's
possible,if I have to, that I could repeat what I hear while wearing ear
hones but I fear transcription programs cant' receive information that fast.

There are some science programs I want transcriptions for, at least some
sections of them, and there is no way I could type out what I hear for such
long interviews, shows, podcasts. I would be able to stop and pause so that
might help. 

   Any suggestions? 

 

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Reminders

[deidreandlouise]

Hello all

I'm wondering if anyone knows if there is a setting to have Reminders open
to the Today folder. I have to hit the back button to get there to mark a
particular reminder completed. I also don't know whythe heading for
catagories of reminders is still headed as 2020 even though the specific
reminders are marked with the correct 2021 designation.

Probably some of you remember how often I've mentioned that the less I have
to swipe or touch a device, the happier I am. It makes no sense to hit on
reminder when notified one has come up only to have to hit the back button
to get to the Today section of the App to markit completed. I do not need to
see Scheduled or whatever other categories are listed. I see I can update,
but I don't expect there will be any additional benefit to updating that
particular App. I never rush to update, and when I do often for the native
apps, it's just new names for things and perhaps a slightly different
structure for where things are. There may be essential changes for other
types of Apps, such as the reading services for the blind, or maybe security
patches, but if my phone still did what my first 4S did, I would not feel
like I was missing anything! 

 

Deidre

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RE: uninstallingskillsthrough the Alexa App

[deidreandlouise]

Sieghard

Yes, I saw where linking was involved with various things. Alexa also lets me 
know what she can't do and how to do it, at least, when it comes to buying 
added services. Has anyone noticed how you can't stop an ad when it is in 
progress? I'm smiling. 

 

Deidre

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Weitzel
Sent: Monday, March 8, 2021 11:05 AM
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Subject: RE: uninstallingskillsthrough the Alexa App

 

If you don't have a disable link then maybe the skills you are looking at 
aren't enabled in the first place.

Also keep in mind that many skills are not working simply by enabling them, for 
example, if you have an Apple Music subscription and you want to make Apple 
Music the default source for music when you ask Alexa to play music, you have 
to not only enable the Apple Music skill but also link your account which means 
at some point during the process you have to allow it and enter your Apple Id 
and password. 

 

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Sieghard

I'll look again.  None of the pages I looked at a few days ago had a disable 
button that voice over spoke. I'll go back and look at what is contained within 
 each Tab on  the area where skills are mentioned. 

 

Deidre

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I just checked some of the skills I have enabled and all of them have a Disable 
button once I tap on them and when I double tap the Disable button I get one 
further confirmation prompt where I can tap either Cancel to go back or Disable 
to disable the skill.

 

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Kimberly
Sent: Sunday, March 7, 2021 1:23 PM
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Subject: Re: uninstallingskillsthrough the Alexa App

 

These instructions are somewhat out of date. There is no longer a menu button 
in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. Instead you have to tap on the 
more tab in the lower right hand corner of the screen to get to The screen 
where you’ll find skills and games. However when you tap on a skill, at least 
using voiceover, no disable button appears. So there must be a different way to 
delete a skill.

Sent from Kimber's Red iPhone

True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of 
justice.—Martin Luther King Jr.

 

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Robert,

I copied below a link to the instructions  I tried to follow. Maybe you will 
have better success with the instructions than I did. 

 

https://www.howtogeek.com/262355/how-to-uninstall-alexa-skills-from-your-amazon-echo/

 

Deidre

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RE: setting preferences and skills in the Alexa App

[deidreandlouise]

Richard

That's funny, I"'e ben wondering if the Amazon Lady was a whole other device!

  I was not using the right language to get Alexa 
to "cancel" a reminder. I only had one and she read it to me and first time 
around she offerecme no options. Next I asked her to delete it. Second time 
around she read it to me then asked if I wanted to cancel all those instances 
of the reminder. That worked. 

I still am not clear on how much talking to my iPhone Alexa is doing. I gave 
Alexa permission to access my reminders, or I thought I did, but maybe that was 
never an option.  I also thought I allowed Alexa to access the calender and 
email, but the only notifications I get are for email. 

btw, I set Alexa to use follow-up mode but often she does not do it. I know it 
works if I am on a set task like listening to a podcast, and it should work 
within a specific amount of time to say something like pause or resume or go to 
the beginning. I hate repeating myself to the Echo or anything or anyone else. 
Hmmm, do I do too much of that here myself? 

I’m clearly still in the dark. Thanks for your patience.

 

Deidre

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Monday, March 8, 2021 10:29 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: setting preferences and skills in the Alexa App

 

Reminders set on the echo device will not show up on your iPhone reminder app.

You can ask the Amazon lady, (I’m trying to avoid using her name as sometimes 
the speech synthesizer reading her name invokes a response if you don’t have 
headphones on,) what reminders do I have, etc.

 

 

 

 

Richard

 

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Subject: setting preferences and skills in the Alexa App

 

Kimberly

   Maybe it's time to get on the Echo list again and ask for sites 
that have answers to all these basic questions. There is a spot for help  and 
feedback on the Alexa App so I thinkI'll review what is in there. When I looked 
at the part of the App that reads "Accessibility" I don't remember anything 
extensive in the way of settings in there.

If I ask Alexa what skills I have enabled, I am told that  there are 5 of them 
which are broad catagories such as games, trivia, song quiz,  sounds… Yesterday 
someone looking in the Alexa App on my phone saw 11 of them.  It's confusing. 
I'mconfusedtoo why reminders on my phone say one thing and a reminder I created 
through Alexa is something different I told her to remind me of. That reminder 
was not recorded in my Reminders App and neither does it show anywhere else 
where I can delete it. Hmmm. 

Back to Skills, I'd like to know, for example,what category of skills, if that 
be what they are specific to, the TJ Sermonsstuff, or celebrity stuff, or Bible 
stuff is in. It would be nice to see that. My main interests are in music, 
science, the arts, and literature. I'd sure like to point to suggestions being 
made to include those topics. I currently hear short lists that say do you want 
to hear somethinglike TJ Sermons or somethingfrom the Bible, which I take are 
part of skills not yet "launched" or"enabled" - I'm not even sure if those 
terms are two different things or not.  I assume they are things proposed I 
might want to try.

   Time to take these questions elsewhere.

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setting preferences and skills in the Alexa App

[deidreandlouise]

Kimberly

   Maybe it's time to get on the Echo list again and ask for sites 
that have answers to all these basic questions. There is a spot for help  and 
feedback on the Alexa App so I thinkI'll review what is in there. When I looked 
at the part of the App that reads "Accessibility" I don't remember anything 
extensive in the way of settings in there.

If I ask Alexa what skills I have enabled, I am told that  there are 5 of them 
which are broad catagories such as games, trivia, song quiz,  sounds… Yesterday 
someone looking in the Alexa App on my phone saw 11 of them.  It's confusing. 
I'mconfusedtoo why reminders on my phone say one thing and a reminder I created 
through Alexa is something different I told her to remind me of. That reminder 
was not recorded in my Reminders App and neither does it show anywhere else 
where I can delete it. Hmmm. 

Back to Skills, I'd like to know, for example,what category of skills, if that 
be what they are specific to, the TJ Sermonsstuff, or celebrity stuff, or Bible 
stuff is in. It would be nice to see that. My main interests are in music, 
science, the arts, and literature. I'd sure like to point to suggestions being 
made to include those topics. I currently hear short lists that say do you want 
to hear somethinglike TJ Sermons or somethingfrom the Bible, which I take are 
part of skills not yet "launched" or"enabled" - I'm not even sure if those 
terms are two different things or not.  I assume they are things proposed I 
might want to try.

   Time to take these questions elsewhere.

 

   Deidre

 

   

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RE: uninstallingskillsthrough the Alexa App

[deidreandlouise]

Sieghard

I'll look again.  None of the pages I looked at a few days ago had a disable 
button that voice over spoke. I'll go back and look at what is contained within 
 each Tab on  the area where skills are mentioned. 

 

Deidre

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Weitzel
Sent: Sunday, March 7, 2021 5:34 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: uninstallingskillsthrough the Alexa App

 

I just checked some of the skills I have enabled and all of them have a Disable 
button once I tap on them and when I double tap the Disable button I get one 
further confirmation prompt where I can tap either Cancel to go back or Disable 
to disable the skill.

 

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mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of 
Kimberly
Sent: Sunday, March 7, 2021 1:23 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: Re: uninstallingskillsthrough the Alexa App

 

These instructions are somewhat out of date. There is no longer a menu button 
in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. Instead you have to tap on the 
more tab in the lower right hand corner of the screen to get to The screen 
where you’ll find skills and games. However when you tap on a skill, at least 
using voiceover, no disable button appears. So there must be a different way to 
delete a skill.

Sent from Kimber's Red iPhone

True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of 
justice.—Martin Luther King Jr.

 

On Mar 7, 2021, at 9:12 AM, deidreandlou...@gmail.com 
  wrote:



Robert,

I copied below a link to the instructions  I tried to follow. Maybe you will 
have better success with the instructions than I did. 

 

https://www.howtogeek.com/262355/how-to-uninstall-alexa-skills-from-your-amazon-echo/

 

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RE: New Echo

[deidreandlouise]

Simon 
I feel sure that would work. I don't, however, have everything turned on on all 
my devices. I really don't want to deal with a more rapid battery drain. It's 
not that important to me. 

Deidre
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Simon A 
Fogarty
Sent: Sunday, March 7, 2021 4:27 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: New Echo

Can't you just say hey siri stop playing?

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of deidre 
muccio
Sent: Monday, 8 March 2021 2:53 am
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: New Echo

Oh, Joshua, that’s too bad. Kind of defeats the purpose of being in the kitchen 
cooking and needing to   pause the playing for whatever reason without having 
to touchthe phone with messy fingers! Sound coming from the speaker though it’s 
definitely superior to that of my phone if it’s not hooked up to my stereo.
My echo just started making a funny noise and I couldn’t figure out what it was 
about. Then I remembered I said a timer. It’s a noise I never would’ve 
associated with a timer since it’s not any kind of noise I’ve ever heard on my 
iPhone. I wonder if I can reset the sound to something else. These are the 
questions I have. I looked in Settings a few days ago at the sounds heading and 
didn’t see any way to set anything specific. Have I missed something? I guess I 
could address this to the other list which I subscribe to by Brad‘s 
recommendation. I think I associate these questions with the accessibility 
capacity  since it’s an app on my phone which is why I continue to ask 
questions here. Plus I never got a response to my first post to the other list! 
I’ll try again.
Deirdre

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 7, 2021, at 8:42 AM, Johna Gravitt  wrote:
> 
> As for Bard books, I do play them on my Alexa through my phone but I have 
> found that when I say pause or stop it doesn't work.  I still have to 
> manually stop it on my phone.
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> Sieghard Weitzel
> Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 12:12 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: New Echo
> 
> You have to understand the way these devices work.
> The Alexa app on your phone is primarily an interface to adjust settings on 
> your Echo speaker, add skills and so on. Yes, it is to some extend also 
> allowing you to use your iPhone like an Alexa speaker, e.g. ask questions or 
> give commands just as you would to your Echo speaker.
> As far as playing books on your Echo speaker which in fact are playing on 
> your phone like BARD, in this case you basically use yur Echo speaker just 
> like you would any Bluetooth speaker, e.g. you pair it to your phone and the 
> whatever you play on your phone plays via your Echo. But because the Echo is 
> a smartspeaker you can obviously take it one step further, i.e. once a book 
> is playing you can ask your speaker to pause or resume or skip forward or 
> back, on a regular Bluetooth speaker you would do these things by pressing 
> the appropriate button. But I don't think you can pair your Echo to your 
> phone and then tell it to play a BARD book unless you first start the book in 
> your BARD app.
> Audible is a different matter because Amazon owns Audible hence it's very 
> seamlessly integrated into Echo speakers and as long as you are signed into 
> your speaker with the same Amazon account you use for Audible the Alexa 
> assistant has access to your Audible library.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> deidre muccio
> Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 8:46 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: New Echo
> 
> Joshua, 
> Wow this just opened up   a new door for me! Thank you. I knew I was missing 
> something that should’ve been doable. Pairing it, Bluetooth, got it. I 
> might’ve seen that somewhere in settings and wasn’t sure exactly what it 
> would be doing, but if you say it can do it I’m sure it can do it.Admitte 
> admittedly I was confused about why I could run the echo even without 
> Bluetooth since I thought it was indeed linked to my phone via the Alexa app. 
> I don’t have Bluetooth on. But I guess I’ll turn it on if I wanna do 
> something like have it read me a Bard book. Thank you again.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Mar 6, 2021, at 11:03 AM, Joshua Hendrickson  wrote:
>> 
>> I can use my google home to easily access bard mobile on my iPhone 
>> if I wish.  I'm sure the echo is the same.  What you do, is first 
>> tell your echo to connect.  It will then say searching, then should 
>> connect to your iPhone.  Note, you must first make sure that you have 
>> paired your echo to your iPhone in order for this to work.  Next, 
>> open bard mobile app on your iPhone.  Hit your play button of your 
>> bard mobile app and your book will begin to play.  Now, stop playback 
>> of your bard book.  Now, tell your echo to play, and your bard book 
>> will begin to 

RE: Timer sounds -RE: New Echo

[deidreandlouise]

Karen
I am talking about the sound coming from my Echo not my phone. The phone sound 
is great, I just don't like the one on the Echo. Picky, picky, picky. I guess 
that should be my middle name.
I do not have a clock display on  the Echo though it certainly can tell time! 
I'm smiling.

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Karen 
Poulakos
Sent: Sunday, March 7, 2021 9:24 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Timer sounds -RE: New Echo

Deirdre,

You can change the timer sounds in the Clock ap.

I discovered it when looking for a way to stop music after 1 hour at bedtime.  
Among the sound options I discovered a "stop playing" setting, which works 
really well.

However it also presents a problem when you want to use a timer, because you 
would have to go in and change it.  I solved that by asking Siri to set an 
alarm when I need to time cooking, etc.  You can ask Siri to set an alarm for a 
specific time, or for as many minutes as you need.

Karen P  

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
deidre muccio
Sent: Sunday, March 7, 2021 7:53 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: New Echo

Oh, Joshua, that s too bad. Kind of defeats the purpose of being in the kitchen 
cooking and needing to   pause the playing for whatever reason without having 
to touchthe phone with messy fingers! Sound coming from the speaker though it s 
definitely superior to that of my phone if it s not hooked up to my stereo.
My echo just started making a funny noise and I couldn t figure out what it was 
about. Then I remembered I said a timer. It s a noise I never would ve 
associated with a timer since it s not any kind of noise I ve ever heard on my 
iPhone. I wonder if I can reset the sound to something else. These are the 
questions I have. I looked in Settings a few days ago at the sounds heading and 
didn t see any way to set anything specific. Have I missed something? I guess I 
could address this to the other list which I subscribe to by Brad s 
recommendation. I think I associate these questions with the accessibility 
capacity  since it s an app on my phone which is why I continue to ask 
questions here. Plus I never got a response to my first post to the other list! 
I ll try again.
Deirdre

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 7, 2021, at 8:42 AM, Johna Gravitt  wrote:
> 
> ?As for Bard books, I do play them on my Alexa through my phone but I have 
> found that when I say pause or stop it doesn't work.  I still have to 
> manually stop it on my phone.
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> Sieghard Weitzel
> Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 12:12 PM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: New Echo
> 
> You have to understand the way these devices work.
> The Alexa app on your phone is primarily an interface to adjust settings on 
> your Echo speaker, add skills and so on. Yes, it is to some extend also 
> allowing you to use your iPhone like an Alexa speaker, e.g. ask questions or 
> give commands just as you would to your Echo speaker.
> As far as playing books on your Echo speaker which in fact are playing on 
> your phone like BARD, in this case you basically use yur Echo speaker just 
> like you would any Bluetooth speaker, e.g. you pair it to your phone and the 
> whatever you play on your phone plays via your Echo. But because the Echo is 
> a smartspeaker you can obviously take it one step further, i.e. once a book 
> is playing you can ask your speaker to pause or resume or skip forward or 
> back, on a regular Bluetooth speaker you would do these things by pressing 
> the appropriate button. But I don't think you can pair your Echo to your 
> phone and then tell it to play a BARD book unless you first start the book in 
> your BARD app.
> Audible is a different matter because Amazon owns Audible hence it's very 
> seamlessly integrated into Echo speakers and as long as you are signed into 
> your speaker with the same Amazon account you use for Audible the Alexa 
> assistant has access to your Audible library.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> deidre muccio
> Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 8:46 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: New Echo
> 
> Joshua, 
> Wow this just opened up   a new door for me! Thank you. I knew I was missing 
> something that should ve been doable. Pairing it, Bluetooth, got it. I might 
> ve seen that somewhere in settings and wasn t sure exactly what it would be 
> doing, but if you say it can do it I m sure it can do it.Admitte admittedly I 
> was confused about why I could run the echo even without Bluetooth since I 
> thought it was indeed linked to my phone via the Alexa app. I don t have 
> Bluetooth on. But I guess I ll turn it on if I wanna do something like have 
> it read me a Bard book. Thank you again.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Mar 6, 2021, at 11:03 

uninstallingskillsthrough the Alexa App

[deidreandlouise]

Robert,

I copied below a link to the instructions  I tried to follow. Maybe you will
have better success with the instructions than I did. 

 

https://www.howtogeek.com/262355/how-to-uninstall-alexa-skills-from-your-ama
zon-echo/

 

Deidre

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Wow lousy instructions on how to get started with a new  service. Should it 
have been obvious in order to do anythingwith Audible I first need to download 
the App? Am I that stupid?

The mailings have a lot of graphics,and how I hate table formats.

 

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RE: Echo or Alexa Show

[deidreandlouise]

I am going to ask Alexa to play it now. Let's see if that is within 
his/her/it's powers.

 

 

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Brad 
Snyder
Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2021 5:08 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Echo or Alexa Show

 

Glad to hear you got subscribed.

Beware, that list can be a little heavy on traffic sometimes, but I’m sure you 
will learn a lot.

 

You may also want to check out the Dot-2-Dot podcast.  Robin Christopherson 
does a nice job with this daily podcast, in which he features a different skill 
every day.


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On Mar 4, 2021, at 15:18, deidre muccio mailto:deidreandlou...@gmail.com> > wrote:

 

Brad,

Thank you, I am subscribed. I think I had to get rid of the sent from my iPhone 
from the message body before it would send. Thanks again.

Sent from my iPhone





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You might find it more beneficial to direct your questions to a list devoted 
to using the Amazon Echo device, rather than a list for iPhone users.

Such a list exist, and you or anyone else can join it by sending a blank email 
to the following address:

 

echoing+subscr...@groups.io  

 

HTH.

 

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On Mar 4, 2021, at 12:35, mailto:deidreandlou...@gmail.com> > mailto:deidreandlou...@gmail.com> > wrote:

 

Me again.

I just looked up "Amazon Show" and became overloaded when reading about  
displays. I do not intend to use a device to control temperature or lock doors 
or need to look at a clock, anything like that. I also do not want a device 
that will require me to do anything in response to what shows on a screen.

   I was thinking I would get a second device for another room but 
one that could play movies, not just Prime, but Netflix too,and possibly Hulu 
somewhere down the line.

   Would that device be compatible with the Echo 4th generation I 
already have? Would I talk to it like I talk to my other device?

   I wonder if Amazon's  customers with disabilities could answer 
these questions and give me a honest good recommendation.

   I'll see if the podcasts someone already recommended will cover 
this, or maybe I will have to go to YouTube and let it squeeze hours out of the 
rest of my day, but only after the dog and I get a proper walk!

 

   Deidre

 

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Echo or Alexa Show

[deidreandlouise]

Me again.

I just looked up "Amazon Show" and became overloaded when reading about
displays. I do not intend to use a device to control temperature or lock
doors or need to look at a clock, anything like that. I also do not want a
device that will require me to do anything in response to what shows on a
screen.

   I was thinking I would get a second device for another room
but one that could play movies, not just Prime, but Netflix too,and possibly
Hulu somewhere down the line.

   Would that device be compatible with the Echo 4th generation
I already have? Would I talk to it like I talk to my other device?

   I wonder if Amazon's  customers with disabilities could
answer these questions and give me a honest good recommendation.

   I'll see if the podcasts someone already recommended will
cover this, or maybe I will have to go to YouTube and let it squeeze hours
out of the rest of my day, but only after the dog and I get a proper walk!

 

   Deidre

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RE: free, 60-day Audible trial

[deidreandlouise]

Ok, so the trick will be to learn how to add books to my library! I'll 
get the hang of what the Echo can and can't do soon. How nice it was to simply 
tell Alexa this morning to play This Week in Virology, and or WHMP on Tune-In, 
or thename of other stations. The device clearly responds to specific commands 
so getting that language correct wil be necessary.
There are so many options for books, news, music, etc. I was thinking 
of renewing my subscription to Bookshare too!

Deidre

-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Joshua 
Hendrickson
Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2021 11:22 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: free, 60-day Audible trial

You cannot search for audible books with the echo.  Just purchase the book with 
a credit through your computer would be the easiest, then once the book is 
purchased, ask the echo to read your purchased book.

On 3/4/21, Richard Turner  wrote:
> I don't think you can search for books through the Echo.
> I may be wrong.
> But, once you have a book in your library, you can ask it to play it.
> Good luck,
>
>
> Richard
>
> Ralph's Observation:  It is a mistake to allow any mechanical 
> object<>to realize that you are in a hurry.
>
>
> My web site, www.turner42.com
>
>
>
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of 
> deidreandlou...@gmail.com
> Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2021 7:53 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: free, 60-day Audible trial
>
> Thanks Richard. I wasn't sure if Audible was entirely owned by Amazon 
> and thus I would control my subscription through them. I'm definitely 
> going to take advantage of the offer. Then I'll have to figure out how 
> to search for books! I hope the command sequence is easy!
> And I totally agree that Amazon's customer service is excellent, 
> though occasionally a foreign accent is a bit hard to understand.
>
> Deidre
>
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com
> mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf 
> Of Richard Turner
> Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2021 10:37 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: free, 60-day Audible trial
>
> Yes, I tis relatively easy to cancel.
> If you have any trouble, call Amazon's customer service.  They will 
> help you get it done.
> I have found them extremely helpful.
> (888) 283-1678
>
>
>
> Richard
>
> Ralph's Observation:  It is a mistake to allow any mechanical 
> object<>to realize that you are in a hurry.
>
>
> My web site,
> www.turner42.com tp%3A%2F%2Fwww.turner42.com%2F=04%7C01%7C%7C06124ee077cd4cb2bae70
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>
>
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com
> mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf 
> Of deidreandlou...@gmail.com
> Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2021 7:29 AM
> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
> Subject: free, 60-day Audible trial
>
> Lastly,
> I'm thinking that I want to take advantage of a free trial of Audible 
> that came after purchasing the Echo. My only worry is that if I want 
> to cancel it to avoid rolling over into automatic payments, that it 
> will be difficult to do. I might like it, or I might not. I want the 
> option to cancel without much fuss. Does anyone have any experience with this?
>
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RE: free, 60-day Audible trial

[deidreandlouise]

Thanks Richard. I wasn't sure if Audible was entirely owned by Amazon and thus 
I would control my subscription through them. I'm definitely going to take 
advantage of the offer. Then I'll have to figure out how to search for books! I 
hope the command sequence is easy!

And I totally agree that Amazon's customer service is excellent, though 
occasionally a foreign accent is a bit hard to understand. 

 

Deidre

 

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2021 10:37 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: free, 60-day Audible trial

 

Yes, I tis relatively easy to cancel.

If you have any trouble, call Amazon’s customer service.  They will help you 
get it done.

I have found them extremely helpful.

(888) 283-1678

 

 

 

Richard

 

Ralph's Observation:  It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object<>to 
realize that you are in a hurry.

 

 

My web site,   www.turner42.com

 

 

 

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deidreandlou...@gmail.com  
Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2021 7:29 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Subject: free, 60-day Audible trial

 

Lastly,

I'm thinking that I want to take advantage of a free trial of Audible that came 
after purchasing the Echo. My only worry is that if I want to cancel  it to 
avoid rolling over into automatic payments, that it will be difficult to do. I 
might like it, or I might not. I want the option to cancel without much fuss. 
Does anyone have any experience with this?

 

Deidre

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free, 60-day Audible trial

[deidreandlouise]

Lastly,

I'm thinking that I want to take advantage of a free trial of Audible that came 
after purchasing the Echo. My only worry is that if I want to cancel  it to 
avoid rolling over into automatic payments, that it will be difficult to do. I 
might like it, or I might not. I want the option to cancel without much fuss. 
Does anyone have any experience with this?

 

Deidre

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RE: New Echo

[deidreandlouise]

Patti

No, I cannot watch or listen to movies on the Echo. Someone kindly pointed out 
it would not play movies and I would need a device with a screen! Apple is not 
thinking people want to listen to movies not look at them with their eyes! I 
amnew to this which is why I was imagining the device could do all kinds of 
things that it was not designed to do! For instance, I thought I could ask 
Alexa to open anapp on my phone, such as BARD, butno that is not it's job. I 
could however set up Voice Control on my phone and then use Hey Siri to do that 
withoutmy having to touch the phone. Now you see I'm  getting into having too 
many options territory,  and to sort it all out, takes time and energy, and I'm 
already frazzled from spending a day with the Echo. I did get it to play a Greg 
Brown mix, and a local radio program,  and podcast I like from today, and it is 
reading my new mail, and I am sending  my brother's Echo messages which I do as 
recordings, and I pulled up an obscure Ice Cube song and played it with no 
problem at all with  the Echo finding it. 

I can say that voice over is not reading everything in the app unless the 
instructions I am getting from several different places are incorrect. For 
example the first step to get to a specific place was tohit on a "menu" button 
at thetop left of the AlexaApp. There is no spoken "menu" button that I can 
find on the opening page of the app. I think I had the Home Tab selected and 
tried another Tab to see if one would appear. No buttons or links in the roter 
appear when I am on any given page I've been on within the Alexa app so far. 
Does this mean that much of the app is not accessible?

I need to give this a rest and get on with the rest of my day!

 

   Deidre

 

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Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2021 8:59 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: New Echo

 

How can you watch movies on the echo, I mean listen, do you have it paired to 
an Amazon Firestick or something?

 

Patti

 

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mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of 
deidre muccio
Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2021 8:06 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com  
Cc: Daniel Macdonald mailto:daniel.angus.macdon...@gmail.com> >
Subject: Re: New Echo

 

I believe what I have is an echo fourth generation. It’s about the size of a 
cantaloupe. No it does not have a screen. Maybe I will get a little one with a 
tiny screen or the smaller screen so that I can just watch movies without 
having to touch my phone. Thanks for cluing me into what was should’ve been 
obvious. Anyway I’m playing around with this looking at commands seeing I still 
have a lot of work to do to streamline it’s recognizing the specific podcast 
and things like that that I want to play. This morning it’s doing a pretty good 
job of doing it, Meaning I’m getting the syntax down that Alexa is best at 
recognizing. I meant to write listen to movies not watch since I wouldn’t be 
able to see a thing on any screen.

 

 

Deirdre

 

Sent from my iPhone

 

On Mar 3, 2021, at 9:49 PM, Daniel MacDonald mailto:daniel.angus.macdon...@gmail.com> > wrote:

 

The dot to dot podcast is a great one to listen to. It[s demos of various echo 
skills. Also for more in-depth demos, the echo show podcast is good. It would 
help us if we new what kind of Echo you have. As far as enabling video skills, 
that is limited to echos with screens, the echo show and it’s  variants, and 
the echo spot. The echo show comes in five, eight, and ten inch sizes. The only 
echo you can watch Amazon is the echo show. To enable some skills, go to the 
amazon Alexa app to more. You’ll find an area called skills and games. You can 
also enable skills by voice if you know the skill name.

 

On Mar 3, 2021, at 10:15 PM, mailto:deidreandlou...@gmail.com> > mailto:deidreandlou...@gmail.com> > wrote:

 

Hello all,

Someone gave me a gift of a new Echo. Some basic set up has been done today. 
I've read some helpful info from emails Amazon keeps sending me and I've been 
on the Amazon site which gives a list of things to look into. Some of what I am 
told to do isn't fool proof, perhaps due to human error.

   I cant seem to get at the place having to do with enabling video 
such as Prime Video or Netflix. I've got both Apps on the phone and naively 
thought I could use Alexa to activate those apps. It doesn't seem to work that 
way! I followed instructions from a hard file as well as where Alexa tole me to 
look, that were supposed to get me to TV and Movies under Skills and Games, I 
think, but I never got there. 

Under the section in settings for Communication, I did check off various music 
services and podcasts and Tune In stations I listen to and Alexa was able to 
find those. I can't however find the place to do that with video, TV and/or 
movies I am subscribed to.

I 

New Echo

[deidreandlouise]

Hello all,

Someone gave me a gift of a new Echo. Some basic set up has been done today.
I've read some helpful info from emails Amazon keeps sending me and I've
been on the Amazon site which gives a list of things to look into. Some of
what I am told to do isn't fool proof, perhaps due to human error.

   I cant seem to get at the place having to do with enabling
video such as Prime Video or Netflix. I've got both Apps on the phone and
naively thought I could use Alexa to activate those apps. It doesn't seem to
work that way! I followed instructions from a hard file as well as where
Alexa tole me to look, that were supposed to get me to TV and Movies under
Skills and Games, I think, but I never got there. 

Under the section in settings for Communication, I did check off various
music services and podcasts and Tune In stations I listen to and Alexa was
able to find those. I can't however find the place to do that with video, TV
and/or movies I am subscribed to.

I really did imagine that I could tell Alexa to do things like open Bard and
continue reading what I was reading last. I assumed the Echo device was
totally privy to everything on my phone, as if it had a mirror image of it.
H, I'm smiling. Still I did manage to do a "drop in" message to my
brother's own Echo and he was indeed notified he had a message and when he
asked Alexa to play it, there I was on a live recording which is what I
chose to use as the medium. 

   I look forward to learning to do as much as I can with the
Echo "hands off.

   Any tips anyone can provide about which sources are most
reliable and easy to follow would be greatly appreciated. This will take a
systematic approach to getting things set up at more than the most basic
level.

 

   Deidre

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RE: Talking GPS Apps

[deidreandlouise]

Mine is working just fine too. 
-Original Message-
From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Brad 
Snyder
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2021 1:51 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Talking GPS Apps

I have Nearby Explore on my iPhone, and from what I can tell it's still works 
as it always has. I'm updating its map database right now. I see no reason why 
you can't use it if you want to. I certainly am.

- Brad -

On Feb 11, 2021, at 12:45, Beverly Wieland  wrote:

If you download Good Maps, do you need to delete Nearby Explorer?
I downloaded Nearby Explorer in July, 2019, and was planning to learn to use it 
as soon as time permits.
But now some of their maps might be getting outdated.

Should I just start with the Good Maps manual, assuming there is one, and 
forget about Nearby Explorer?

Thanks in advance for the advice,
Beverly Wieland


On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, Nimer Jaber wrote:

> Hello Deidre,
> 
> The setting you are looking for to control shops is the increase and 
> decrease buttons at the top of the app. Also, you should know that the 
> app is no longer being supported, and new users cannot download it any longer.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 9:16 AM  wrote:
> 
>> I have simplified my approach to making choices around the many 
>> offerings out there that offer me good accessibility. I do not need 3 
>> different GPS or scanning Apps and if I find one that works well, and 
>> way better than Apps we all tested out over the last ten years, I 
>> stick to them. Long gone is KNFB Reader, Digitize, Seeing Eye, and 
>> Blind Square which I must not have tweaked easily enough to use with 
>> great ease. I haven't looked at it in years, so I'm not sure how it 
>> works now. I admire the techs and adaptive tech consultants on this 
>> list, and  their thoroughness in checking out the many different Apps 
>> is impressive, and I am grateful to have access to their body of knowledge 
>> and their willingness to share it.
>> 
>> I use Nearby Explorer On-Line. It's free and easy and very vocal. I 
>> don't know if you can mark a route but it will tell you when you 
>> change direction which I find essential at times I get turned around, 
>> or my dog takes me on a detour when we are on a recreational walk.
>> 
>> In my town, I know the streets throughout the entire city. I can tell 
>> which side of a street I am on based on even and odd number 
>> addresses, which is useful for when I've crossed a street 
>> unknowingly, like in my neighborhood where it's sometimes hard to 
>> tell where the corner is this time of year due to messy clumps of 
>> snow and low traffic flow. At night when temperatures plummet around 
>> here, I make sure I have my phone charged and in my pocket with 
>> cellular data and location tracking already turned on.  If my dog 
>> decides she wants a longer walk, and does not default to our usual 
>> turns, well, with not a soul to be found on the street, in a split 
>> second I can open Nearby Explorer and turn her around and insist on 
>> getting home
>> 
>> I am told the names of streets when they are nearby, and I get block 
>> number info like 1-33 or 36-59, and that's cool.
>> 
>>   One thing I'd definitely like to limit is hearing 
>> locations such as shops that are at quite a distance away from where 
>> I am, like as far away as a whole block but I'm not sure which 
>> setting it is. I think it did exist in the full App I once had on my 
>> phone, but I'm not sure about the newer On-Line App. It is an App you 
>> download so I'm not sure how the On-Line version differs from the older App.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> *Deidre*
>> 
>> *From:* viphone@googlegroups.com  *On 
>> Behalf Of *Richard Turner
>> *Sent:* Thursday, February 11, 2021 10:21 AM
>> *To:* viphone@googlegroups.com
>> *Subject:* RE: Talking GPS Apps
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Most GPS apps work fine with VoiceOver.
>> 
>> Google Maps is my go to GPS app.  There is a setting for more 
>> detailed walking directions for visually impaired.
>> 
>> Blind Square is a great app for orientation and can launch Apple 
>> Maps, Google Maps, and others to get turn by turn directions.
>> 
>> Good Maps Explore is the new version of the prior APH map that was 
>> paid to have maps stored locally.  It does both orientation and turn 
>> by turn directions, maps are stored in the cloud  It shows up as 
>> Explore on the iPhone..
>> 
>> Microsoft Soundscape is very popular, especially if you have bone 
>> conduction headphones since it speaks out of the side closest to the 
>> street/business, etc.  So you get real orientation.
>> 
>> Seeing Eye GPS is the Cadillac of GPS apps for the blind at $200.
>> 
>> Lazarillo is also an excellent, free, orientation app and can do its 
>> own walking directions, as well as launch other maps for turn by turn 
>> driving/riding directions.
>> 
>> MapQuest is good in the United States, but not as user friendly as 
>> the others.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> But again, they all 

RE: Talking GPS Apps

[deidreandlouise]

I have simplified my approach to making choices around the many offerings out 
there that offer me good accessibility. I do not need 3 different GPS or 
scanning Apps and if I find one that works well, and way better than Apps we 
all tested out over the last ten years, I stick to them. Long gone is KNFB 
Reader, Digitize, Seeing Eye, and Blind Square which I must not have tweaked 
easily enough to use with great ease. I haven't looked at it in years, so I'm 
not sure how it works now. I admire the techs and adaptive tech consultants on 
this list, and  their thoroughness in checking out the many different Apps is 
impressive, and I am grateful to have access to their body of knowledge and 
their willingness to share it.

I use Nearby Explorer On-Line. It's free and easy and very vocal. I don't know 
if you can mark a route but it will tell you when you change direction which I 
find essential at times I get turned around, or my dog takes me on a detour 
when we are on a recreational walk. 

In my town, I know the streets throughout the entire city. I can tell which 
side of a street I am on based on even and odd number addresses, which is 
useful for when I've crossed a street unknowingly, like in my neighborhood 
where it's sometimes hard to tell where the corner is this time of year due to 
messy clumps of snow and low traffic flow. At night when temperatures plummet 
around here, I make sure I have my phone charged and in my pocket with cellular 
data and location tracking already turned on.  If my dog decides she wants a 
longer walk, and does not default to our usual turns, well, with not a soul to 
be found on the street, in a split second I can open Nearby Explorer and turn 
her around and insist on getting home 

I am told the names of streets when they are nearby, and I get block number 
info like 1-33 or 36-59, and that's cool. 

   One thing I'd definitely like to limit is hearing locations such 
as shops that are at quite a distance away from where I am, like as far away as 
a whole block but I'm not sure which setting it is. I think it did exist in the 
full App I once had on my phone, but I'm not sure about the newer On-Line App. 
It is an App you download so I'm not sure how the On-Line version differs from 
the older App.

 

Deidre

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2021 10:21 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Talking GPS Apps

 

Most GPS apps work fine with VoiceOver.

Google Maps is my go to GPS app.  There is a setting for more detailed walking 
directions for visually impaired.

Blind Square is a great app for orientation and can launch Apple Maps, Google 
Maps, and others to get turn by turn directions.

Good Maps Explore is the new version of the prior APH map that was paid to have 
maps stored locally.  It does both orientation and turn by turn directions, 
maps are stored in the cloud  It shows up as Explore on the iPhone..

Microsoft Soundscape is very popular, especially if you have bone conduction 
headphones since it speaks out of the side closest to the street/business, etc. 
 So you get real orientation.

Seeing Eye GPS is the Cadillac of GPS apps for the blind at $200.

Lazarillo is also an excellent, free, orientation app and can do its own 
walking directions, as well as launch other maps for turn by turn 
driving/riding directions.

MapQuest is good in the United States, but not as user friendly as the others.

 

But again, they all work fine with VoiceOver.

 

 

 

Richard

 

Ralph's Observation:  It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object<>to 
realize that you are in a hurry.

 

 

My web site, www.turner42.com  

 

 

 

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mailto:orbit-rea...@groups.io> > On Behalf Of Lehmann, 
Timothy A
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2021 4:54 AM
To: orbit-rea...@groups.io  
Subject: [orbit-reader] Talking GPS's

 

 

Any suggestions for a talking GPS-App which can be downloaded to an iPhone? I 
am trying to find one that is fully accessible using Voice Over. Thanks and 
have a nice day!

 

Tim Lehmann

Access Specialist

Student Affairs

Missouri State University

Meyer Library 111G

901 South National Avenue

Springfield, Missouri 65897

Office 417-836-4248   Fax 417-836-3158

mailto:timlehm...@missouristate.edu

 

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mailto:orbit-rea...@groups.io> > On Behalf Of Josh 
Kennedy via groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 4:34 PM
To: orbit-rea...@groups.io  
Subject: Re: [orbit-reader] Suggestion for Audio Features in Orbit Reader 40

 

CAUTION: External Sender

 

You can use dectalk with NVDA with an addon. It works real good on windows10.  

 

 

 

On Feb 10, 2021, at 16:53, Richard Turner mailto:richardturne...@outlook.com> > wrote:

 

The DeckTalk, and other hardware