Re: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

2021-05-04 Thread Alex Stone 
I’ve never used it myself, but it ought to be possible to do that with voice 
control, didn’t it?

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On 4 May 2021, at 21:07, Dean Martineau  wrote:


A trainee asked me about apps that would allow her to set her mail to reading 
while she’s on the bike or treadmill so she doesn’t have to interact with the 
phone much or at all, except possibly with her voice.  She’s a VoiceOver user.  
Is there a way to do this.

Thought-provoking reading: http://bahaiteachings.org


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RE: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

2021-05-04 Thread Christopher Chaltain 
I haven’t used this feature myself, but this is an option in the Outlook app.

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Stone
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 3:11 PM
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Subject: Re: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

I’ve never used it myself, but it ought to be possible to do that with voice 
control, didn’t it?
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A trainee asked me about apps that would allow her to set her mail to reading 
while she’s on the bike or treadmill so she doesn’t have to interact with the 
phone much or at all, except possibly with her voice.  She’s a VoiceOver user.  
Is there a way to do this.

Thought-provoking reading: http://bahaiteachings.org<http://bahaiteachings.org/>

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RE: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

2021-05-04 Thread Richard Turner 
If she wants to learn all the Voice Control commands, that could work, but is a 
lot.
I think a better solution is one I just learned about.
You can connect the Amazon Alexa app to your email and calendar and access your 
email and calendar totally hands free.
I just tested it with my Microsoft email and calendar.
Here is the welcome letter after setting this up which gives you an idea of 
what you can do.
Congratulations on linking your calendar and email account with Alexa. Here are 
a few tips to get started.

Stay on top of your day
"Alexa, what's on my calendar?"
"Alexa, add a new event."
"Alexa, check my email."
"Alexa, cancel my appointment tomorrow."
Alexa can help with reviewing your upcoming calendar, and can also add, delete, 
and move events to a new time. Check your emails, and reply, delete, or mark as 
important, and get more done hands-free.

Never miss an important event
Get calendar notifications from Alexa by visiting Settings > Calendar & Email 
in your Alexa app, and selecting the account you want to enable.

Add Calendar and Email to your Alexa Routine
Create an Alexa Routine, where a series of tasks are done with one command. For 
example, say "Alexa, good morning" and hear your schedule for the day, the 
weather, and your latest emails.
"Alexa, good morning."
"Alexa, start my day."
To enable custom Routines in minutes, follow the steps in your Alexa app under 
Routines.

Alexa is always getting smarter and adding new productivity features. Visit the 
Alexa Guide for the latest updates.
As a reminder, your calendar and email may be available to anyone using your 
Alexa devices, and a copy of your linked calendar and email are stored in the 
cloud.


(c) 2021 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Amazon, 
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Martineau
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 1:07 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

A trainee asked me about apps that would allow her to set her mail to reading 
while she's on the bike or treadmill so she doesn't have to interact with the 
phone much or at all, except possibly with her voice.  She's a VoiceOver user.  
Is there a way to do this.

Thought-provoking reading: 
http://bahaiteachings.org

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RE: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

2021-05-04 Thread Sieghard Weitzel 
If she only wants to read an email which just came in all she has to do is ask 
SIRI to do so.
I for one of course ask myself why I would want to pay attention to emails 
during my 20 or 30 minutes of exercise time just as I very rarely check a 
notification which comes in while I am having dinner.

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 2:50 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

If she wants to learn all the Voice Control commands, that could work, but is a 
lot.
I think a better solution is one I just learned about.
You can connect the Amazon Alexa app to your email and calendar and access your 
email and calendar totally hands free.
I just tested it with my Microsoft email and calendar.
Here is the welcome letter after setting this up which gives you an idea of 
what you can do.
Congratulations on linking your calendar and email account with Alexa. Here are 
a few tips to get started.

Stay on top of your day
"Alexa, what's on my calendar?"
"Alexa, add a new event."
"Alexa, check my email."
"Alexa, cancel my appointment tomorrow."
Alexa can help with reviewing your upcoming calendar, and can also add, delete, 
and move events to a new time. Check your emails, and reply, delete, or mark as 
important, and get more done hands-free.

Never miss an important event
Get calendar notifications from Alexa by visiting Settings > Calendar & Email 
in your Alexa app, and selecting the account you want to enable.

Add Calendar and Email to your Alexa Routine
Create an Alexa Routine, where a series of tasks are done with one command. For 
example, say "Alexa, good morning" and hear your schedule for the day, the 
weather, and your latest emails.
"Alexa, good morning."
"Alexa, start my day."
To enable custom Routines in minutes, follow the steps in your Alexa app under 
Routines.

Alexa is always getting smarter and adding new productivity features. Visit the 
Alexa Guide for the latest updates.
As a reminder, your calendar and email may be available to anyone using your 
Alexa devices, and a copy of your linked calendar and email are stored in the 
cloud.


© 2021 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Amazon, Alexa, 
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Martineau
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 1:07 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

A trainee asked me about apps that would allow her to set her mail to reading 
while she’s on the bike or treadmill so she doesn’t have to interact with the 
phone much or at all, except possibly with her voice.  She’s a VoiceOver user.  
Is there a way to do this.

Thought-provoking reading: 
http://bahaiteachings.org<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbahaiteachings.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C450cb49a519b44a514de08d90f3831e5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637557556288958270%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=2iAy39cceyvR%2BGgQ0MSou%2BY8lwdG%2FIdAoiwQCCWEtKM%3D&reserved=0>

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RE: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

2021-05-04 Thread Richard Turner 
Actually, have you asked Siri to read an email lately?
She will tell you who it is from and the subject, and that's it.
P:Pretty useless.


Richard
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Sieghard 
Weitzel
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 5:38 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

If she only wants to read an email which just came in all she has to do is ask 
SIRI to do so.
I for one of course ask myself why I would want to pay attention to emails 
during my 20 or 30 minutes of exercise time just as I very rarely check a 
notification which comes in while I am having dinner.

From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> 
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of 
Richard Turner
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 2:50 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

If she wants to learn all the Voice Control commands, that could work, but is a 
lot.
I think a better solution is one I just learned about.
You can connect the Amazon Alexa app to your email and calendar and access your 
email and calendar totally hands free.
I just tested it with my Microsoft email and calendar.
Here is the welcome letter after setting this up which gives you an idea of 
what you can do.
Congratulations on linking your calendar and email account with Alexa. Here are 
a few tips to get started.

Stay on top of your day
"Alexa, what's on my calendar?"
"Alexa, add a new event."
"Alexa, check my email."
"Alexa, cancel my appointment tomorrow."
Alexa can help with reviewing your upcoming calendar, and can also add, delete, 
and move events to a new time. Check your emails, and reply, delete, or mark as 
important, and get more done hands-free.

Never miss an important event
Get calendar notifications from Alexa by visiting Settings > Calendar & Email 
in your Alexa app, and selecting the account you want to enable.

Add Calendar and Email to your Alexa Routine
Create an Alexa Routine, where a series of tasks are done with one command. For 
example, say "Alexa, good morning" and hear your schedule for the day, the 
weather, and your latest emails.
"Alexa, good morning."
"Alexa, start my day."
To enable custom Routines in minutes, follow the steps in your Alexa app under 
Routines.

Alexa is always getting smarter and adding new productivity features. Visit the 
Alexa Guide for the latest updates.
As a reminder, your calendar and email may be available to anyone using your 
Alexa devices, and a copy of your linked calendar and email are stored in the 
cloud.


(c) 2021 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Amazon, 
Alexa, Echo, Prime, and all related logos are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or 
its affiliates. Amazon.com, 410 Terry Avenue N., Seattle, WA 98109-5210. 
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> 
viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Dean 
Martineau
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 1:07 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

A trainee asked me about apps that would allow her to set her mail to reading 
while she's on the bike or treadmill so she doesn't have to interact with the 
phone much or at all, except possibly with her voice.  She's a VoiceOver user.  
Is there a way to do this.

Thought-provoking reading: 
http://bahaiteachings.org<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbahaiteachings.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C9ad02c0dfc8e429cd31508d90f5e1377%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637557719185383127%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=03V3Wzr3MH1kqDIGqse2qFKI%2F7e3wz6IoJfGThVOC2k%3D&reserved=0>

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RE: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

2021-05-04 Thread Sieghard Weitzel 
You are correct, I guess I haven't tried this in a long time, but now it's even 
worse than you say, I just asked SIRI to read my latest email and she said 
"Here's an email" and that was it. On the screen when I checked it a Netflix 
email was displayed so I asked "Read my email from Netflix" and she said "You 
have 1 email from Netflix" and nothing else, no subject, nothing else.
Really makes you wonder what Apple is thinking of, SIRI is 10 years old this 
year and they came out with SIRI 3 years before Amazon released Alexa, they 
should be ashamed and embarrassed.

From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 5:42 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

Actually, have you asked Siri to read an email lately?
She will tell you who it is from and the subject, and that’s it.
P:Pretty useless.



Richard
"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what 
they become by it."
- John Ruskin, 1819-1900

Web site: www.turner42.com<http://www.turner42.com>



From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Sieghard 
Weitzel
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 5:38 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

If she only wants to read an email which just came in all she has to do is ask 
SIRI to do so.
I for one of course ask myself why I would want to pay attention to emails 
during my 20 or 30 minutes of exercise time just as I very rarely check a 
notification which comes in while I am having dinner.

From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> 
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of 
Richard Turner
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 2:50 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

If she wants to learn all the Voice Control commands, that could work, but is a 
lot.
I think a better solution is one I just learned about.
You can connect the Amazon Alexa app to your email and calendar and access your 
email and calendar totally hands free.
I just tested it with my Microsoft email and calendar.
Here is the welcome letter after setting this up which gives you an idea of 
what you can do.
Congratulations on linking your calendar and email account with Alexa. Here are 
a few tips to get started.

Stay on top of your day
"Alexa, what's on my calendar?"
"Alexa, add a new event."
"Alexa, check my email."
"Alexa, cancel my appointment tomorrow."
Alexa can help with reviewing your upcoming calendar, and can also add, delete, 
and move events to a new time. Check your emails, and reply, delete, or mark as 
important, and get more done hands-free.

Never miss an important event
Get calendar notifications from Alexa by visiting Settings > Calendar & Email 
in your Alexa app, and selecting the account you want to enable.

Add Calendar and Email to your Alexa Routine
Create an Alexa Routine, where a series of tasks are done with one command. For 
example, say "Alexa, good morning" and hear your schedule for the day, the 
weather, and your latest emails.
"Alexa, good morning."
"Alexa, start my day."
To enable custom Routines in minutes, follow the steps in your Alexa app under 
Routines.

Alexa is always getting smarter and adding new productivity features. Visit the 
Alexa Guide for the latest updates.
As a reminder, your calendar and email may be available to anyone using your 
Alexa devices, and a copy of your linked calendar and email are stored in the 
cloud.


© 2021 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Amazon, Alexa, 
Echo, Prime, and all related logos are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its 
affiliates. Amazon.com, 410 Terry Avenue N., Seattle, WA 98109-5210. Reference: 
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> 
viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Dean 
Martineau
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 1:07 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

A trainee asked me about apps that would allow her to set her mail to reading 
while she’s on the bike or treadmill so she doesn’t have to interact with the 
phone much or at all, except possibly with her voice.  She’s a VoiceOver user.  
Is there a way to do this.

Thought-provoking reading: 
http://bahaiteachings.org<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbahaiteachings.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C9ad02c0dfc8e429cd31508d90f5e1377%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637557719185383127%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=03V3Wzr3MH1kqDIGqse2qFKI%2F7e3wz6

RE: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

2021-05-04 Thread Richard Turner 
Agreed.
I think I remember when Siri actually would read an email.
But, Alexa does now, not perfectly, but pretty good.
Frankly, I like the Alexa voice better anyway.



Richard
"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what 
they become by it."
- John Ruskin, 1819-1900

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Sieghard 
Weitzel
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 5:52 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

You are correct, I guess I haven't tried this in a long time, but now it's even 
worse than you say, I just asked SIRI to read my latest email and she said 
"Here's an email" and that was it. On the screen when I checked it a Netflix 
email was displayed so I asked "Read my email from Netflix" and she said "You 
have 1 email from Netflix" and nothing else, no subject, nothing else.
Really makes you wonder what Apple is thinking of, SIRI is 10 years old this 
year and they came out with SIRI 3 years before Amazon released Alexa, they 
should be ashamed and embarrassed.

From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> 
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of 
Richard Turner
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 5:42 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

Actually, have you asked Siri to read an email lately?
She will tell you who it is from and the subject, and that's it.
P:Pretty useless.



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mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of 
Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 5:38 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

If she only wants to read an email which just came in all she has to do is ask 
SIRI to do so.
I for one of course ask myself why I would want to pay attention to emails 
during my 20 or 30 minutes of exercise time just as I very rarely check a 
notification which comes in while I am having dinner.

From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> 
mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of 
Richard Turner
Sent: Tuesday, May 4, 2021 2:50 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: reading e-mail on iphone while exercising

If she wants to learn all the Voice Control commands, that could work, but is a 
lot.
I think a better solution is one I just learned about.
You can connect the Amazon Alexa app to your email and calendar and access your 
email and calendar totally hands free.
I just tested it with my Microsoft email and calendar.
Here is the welcome letter after setting this up which gives you an idea of 
what you can do.
Congratulations on linking your calendar and email account with Alexa. Here are 
a few tips to get started.

Stay on top of your day
"Alexa, what's on my calendar?"
"Alexa, add a new event."
"Alexa, check my email."
"Alexa, cancel my appointment tomorrow."
Alexa can help with reviewing your upcoming calendar, and can also add, delete, 
and move events to a new time. Check your emails, and reply, delete, or mark as 
important, and get more done hands-free.

Never miss an important event
Get calendar notifications from Alexa by visiting Settings > Calendar & Email 
in your Alexa app, and selecting the account you want to enable.

Add Calendar and Email to your Alexa Routine
Create an Alexa Routine, where a series of tasks are done with one command. For 
example, say "Alexa, good morning" and hear your schedule for the day, the 
weather, and your latest emails.
"Alexa, good morning."
"Alexa, start my day."
To enable custom Routines in minutes, follow the steps in your Alexa app under 
Routines.

Alexa is always getting smarter and adding new productivity features. Visit the 
Alexa Guide for the latest updates.
As a reminder, your calendar and email may be available to anyone using your 
Alexa devices, and a copy of your linked calendar and email are stored in the 
cloud.


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