Re: Voice Dream Reader 4.0, an early overview

2016-03-12 Thread Devin Prater
I'll just be glad to be able to use Alex. Are there any other new voices available? Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 12, 2016, at 7:51 PM, Richard Turner > wrote: > > Yes, it ends in html because is is a page with the link to the mp3 file, but > here is a direct

RE: Whatsapp and voiceover

2016-03-12 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
I am not sure I understand the problem probably mostly because as far as I am concerned there is no problem. As others have also confirmed this it is my guess that it is a user issue rather than a Whats App issue. From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf

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RE: Voice Dream Reader 4.0, an early overview

2016-03-12 Thread Richard Turner
Yes, it ends in html because is is a page with the link to the mp3 file, but here is a direct link to the file: www.turner42.com/VDR4March12.mp3 If you are using Windows, you probably have to choose whether to open or save the file. Richard -Original Message- From:

Re: Voice Dream Reader 4.0, an early overview

2016-03-12 Thread Regina Alvarado
very nicely done. I am very glad that we now can I cloud sync. Thank you so much for doing this reggie & Lex On Mar 12, 2016, at 4:48 PM, Richard Turner wrote: Greetings, I have Winston Chen's permission to talk about the features in Voice Dream Reader 4.0 so I

Re: Voice Dream Reader 4.0, an early overview

2016-03-12 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
hi, i've been using it with a braille display, and it's about the same as before. I don't think Winston has changed braille. Best, Anna Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 12, 2016, at 6:06 PM, Richard Turner > wrote: > > I didn't test and he didn't mention

Re: Voice Dream Reader 4.0, an early overview

2016-03-12 Thread 'carol.pearso...@googlemail.com' via VIPhone
Hi Richard, I'm very keen to hear your podcast but the URL written is strange and ends with HTML. Could you kindly send it again as I don't now have your original message on this subject? THANKS and I look forward so much to hearing it! I dabble a bit with the Reader and know it has a lot

RE: Voice Dream Reader 4.0, an early overview

2016-03-12 Thread Richard Turner
I didn't test and he didn't mention any yet. I left my display at work, but I'll try to test this week. Richard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Aleeha Dudley Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 4:01 PM To:

Re: Voice Dream Reader 4.0, an early overview

2016-03-12 Thread Aleeha Dudley
Do we know if there are any Braille display improvements? Aleeha > On Mar 12, 2016, at 6:07 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > > Hi Richard, > Thanks for that nice overview. I am definitely looking forward to iCloud > sink. Does it also back up the voices? I kind of doubt it, since

RE: Voice Dream Reader 4.0, an early overview

2016-03-12 Thread Richard Turner
I'm not really sure if it does back up the voices. When the app is released, I'll install it on my Touch and make sure everything is there and it has synced with iCloud. Then, I'll download it fresh from the App store on my iPhone and turn on the sync and see what happens. My guess is like

Re: Voice Dream Reader 4.0, an early overview

2016-03-12 Thread Dulce Muccio Weisenborn
Thanks for this preview. - Original Message - From: Richard Turner To: his'ViPone list'" Date: Saturday, March 12, 2016 4:48 pm Subject: Voice Dream Reader 4.0, an early overview > > > Greetings, > > > > I have Winston

Re: Sonos

2016-03-12 Thread Marie
You could be right but they will still sound good with the Sonos either way. Marie -Original Message- From: Christopher Chaltain Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 2:23 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Sonos Aren't the movies from Blind Mice ripped into an MP3 format? Will

RE: Voice Dream Reader 4.0, an early overview

2016-03-12 Thread Gary Bowers
Richard, Excellent podcast! You obviously know the VDR and you've done a great job explaining its features. I think I'll like the update. I do have one minor quibble: the timer is not as easy to access. But again, I think Winston is doing a great service for us all. Thanks for the podcast.

Re: Voice Dream Reader 4.0, an early overview

2016-03-12 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Richard, Thanks for that nice overview. I am definitely looking forward to iCloud sink. Does it also back up the voices? I kind of doubt it, since you didn't mention it. But I'm just curious, given all the trouble I had when I upgraded my iPhone and permanently lost access to ivona. I don't

Re: Whatsapp and voiceover

2016-03-12 Thread Rajmund
hello, on this list, both replies do the same. For example, I chose a reply-all, and this is going to everyone. Sent from an iPad Air > On 12 Mar 2016, at 10:24 pm, Les Kriegler wrote: > > Well now I'm confused. I chose replies supposed to reply all, so I'm >

Re: Whatsapp and voiceover

2016-03-12 Thread Christopher Chaltain
It also depends on how the list is set up. I'm just in the habit of checking the "to" field before hitting the send button. On 12/03/16 16:24, Les Kriegler wrote: Well now I'm confused. I chose replies supposed to reply all, so I'm wondering why that is the case? Sent from my iPhone On Mar

Re: Whatsapp and voiceover

2016-03-12 Thread Les Kriegler
Well now I'm confused. I chose replies supposed to reply all, so I'm wondering why that is the case? Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 12, 2016, at 5:17 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote: > > Just as an FYI, but these messages are not private. They are coming through > to the

Re: Sonos

2016-03-12 Thread Christopher Chaltain
Aren't the movies from Blind Mice ripped into an MP3 format? Will you get surround sound from these files? I wouldn't think so, but I don't know, so I'm curious. On 12/03/16 12:53, Marie wrote: I long ago ripped all my CDs and have purchased a lot of digital music from Rhapsody and later from

Re: Voice Dream Reader 4.0, an early overview

2016-03-12 Thread Gerardo Corripio
Wow thanks for sharing! How exciting! El 12/03/2016 03:48 p.m., Richard Turner escribió: Greetings, I have Winston Chen's permission to talk about the features in Voice Dream Reader 4.0 so I decided to try my hand at doing a little MP3 recording. If all went well, he submitted the app to

Re: Voice Dream Reader 4.0, an early overview

2016-03-12 Thread Terrie Terlau
Hello Richard, Thank you for your wonderful overview of the new voice dream. I have a good picture of it and I am looking forward to its release. Voice stream is one of my very favorite apps I also learned some things it can do from your overview that I did not know about. I am looking very

Hijacking threads [was "Re: Whatsapp and voiceover"]

2016-03-12 Thread Christopher Chaltain
Yes, this is called hijacking a thread. Threaded mail clients, such as the stock email client on the iPhone, will keep messsages in the same thread even if you change the subject line. It is a good practice to start a new topic with a new message rather than replying to another message and

Re: Whatsapp and voiceover

2016-03-12 Thread Christopher Chaltain
Just as an FYI, but these messages are not private. They are coming through to the viphone list. On 12/03/16 15:18, Les Kriegler wrote: Eva, this message, as well as the last one were private ones. However, I appreciate your comments. I would hope that others would also do this. This is

Voice Dream Reader 4.0, an early overview

2016-03-12 Thread Richard Turner
Greetings, I have Winston Chen's permission to talk about the features in Voice Dream Reader 4.0 so I decided to try my hand at doing a little MP3 recording. If all went well, he submitted the app to Apple yesterday. www.turner42.com/VDR4.html I

Re: apple tv 4 and mlb

2016-03-12 Thread Les Kriegler
Well, I was away I haven't used my four generation since I came back the other night. So I have a feeling I'm not going to be happy with when I see either. Thanks for alerting me. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 12, 2016, at 4:24 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: > > Hi, > > He's

Re: apple tv 4 and mlb

2016-03-12 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi, He's talking about the latest update to the MLB app that was released for the 4th generation Apple TV on March 9th. He's correct, though, the newest version is a complete redesigned app, which has a somewhat inaccessible schedule screen. Hopefully they'll fix it in an update before the

Re: Whatsapp and voiceover

2016-03-12 Thread Les Kriegler
Eva, this message, as well as the last one were private ones. However, I appreciate your comments. I would hope that others would also do this. This is happened periodically, see you not the first one to do it. But I figured that's what happened, no problem though and I appreciate your

Re: Whatsapp and voiceover

2016-03-12 Thread Eva Abbas
Alright Les, Sorry about inconveniencing you. Well, I think I know what happened. Instead of starting a new message from scratch, I replied to a message (maybe it was sono subject) and I changed the subject line and deleted the original text of it. I did not know at all that it affected

Re: apple tv 4 and mlb

2016-03-12 Thread Les Kriegler
Larry, when I access the AppleTV MLB package, I see today's games and choose that. And then see the schedule. If I choose game day audio, I also see today's games. Is that what you're looking for are you are you looking for individual team schedules? Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 12, 2016, at

Re: Whatsapp and voiceover

2016-03-12 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Eva, Well what's happening here is that the thread originally was about Sonos. Your messages, even the ones now are appearing in that thread. I know this is sometimes tricky and it's took me a while to understand this myself. Basically, I have my messages threaded. What happens is that all

Re: Whatsapp and voiceover

2016-03-12 Thread Eva Abbas
Hello Gerardo, This is exactly what my friends said they experienced. God bless Eva ga...@rogers.com Your life is God's gift to you The way you live it is your gift to God From: Gerardo Corripio Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 6:39 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Whatsapp and

Re: Setting up fopydo and bookreading aid?

2016-03-12 Thread Jenifer Barr
No, I paid $25. I contributed to the kickstarter and already had a stand. Jen On 3/12/16, Richard Turner wrote: > Right, but if you didn't specifically ask for the Book Rading Aid without > the Stand, the another stand is attached to the Book Reading Aid. > Did you

Re: Whatsapp and voiceover

2016-03-12 Thread Eva Abbas
Hello Oriol, Thank you very much for the good news. God bless Eva ga...@rogers.com Your life is God's gift to you The way you live it is your gift to God -Original Message- From: Oriol Gómez Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 5:50 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Whatsapp

Re: Whatsapp and voiceover

2016-03-12 Thread Eva Abbas
Hi Les, Sorry, I did not get your point. I put a subject line that’s fitting with the subject of the message. If I want to talk about another topic, I’ll certainly change the subject line. God bless Eva ga...@rogers.com Your life is God's gift to you The way you live it is your gift to

Re: Whatsapp and voiceover

2016-03-12 Thread Eva Abbas
Hello Sieghard, Thank you for your response. My friends installed the new update of whatsapp on their iPhones. They are complaining of having difficulty finding messages. Messages are slipping too fast or getting stuck. What do you think they should do to make the problem known to

apple tv 4 and mlb

2016-03-12 Thread Larry McCreary
Hello, With the newest update to the mlb app on apple tv the schedule is not accessible. Instead of team names there are team logos. I am using the apple 4th generation. If someone can help with this problem I would appreciate it much. The app before the update had the team names. -- The

RE: Setting up fopydo and bookreading aid?

2016-03-12 Thread Richard Turner
Right, but if you didn't specifically ask for the Book Rading Aid without the Stand, the another stand is attached to the Book Reading Aid. Did you pay $35 plus shipping for the Aid? If so, you probably have a second stand. The book Reading aid has a longer base than the Stand with the two foam

Re: Setting up fopydo and bookreading aid?

2016-03-12 Thread Jenifer Barr
Actually, I think I figured it out! I purchased the bookreading aide after I got the stand, so I hadn't put the stand together with the aide and that was what was confusing me. Thanks for the instructions and suggestions Richard. I appreciate it. Jen On 3/12/16, Richard Turner

Re: Sonos

2016-03-12 Thread Marie
I long ago ripped all my CDs and have purchased a lot of digital music from Rhapsody and later from Apple. I seldom watch TV because I was sick of their commercials and paying too much for too little. I listen to many audios tracks of descriptive movies from the Blind Mice site and they should

Re: Setting up fopydo and bookreading aid?

2016-03-12 Thread Jenifer Barr
Hi Richard. Thanks for the suggesttions. I'll ask my friend to help me tomorrow. UnfortunatelyI have noone that has one of ^ed that I could look at. If I could see one essembled I could figure it out. Thanks though for the tips. One more question... Is the stand the whole flat side of the aide?

Re: Sonos

2016-03-12 Thread Marie
Thanks, great ideas. Marie From: Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 10:17 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Sonos Hi Marie, My advice would be to put 2 Play 1 speakers into the kitchen area and to mount them so they are best placed for when you are sitting at the

RE: Sonos

2016-03-12 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Also, if you have a lot of CD’s I would suggest you rip them in a lossless format such as Apple Lossless or FLAC so you can access all your music with Sonos. Ideally I think any Sonos owner should use a network attached hard drive which is always available to play music, if you have it on your

Is Anyone Using the Home Food Storage App?

2016-03-12 Thread Dani Pagador
Hi, Everyone. I was using the VIA app and was looking for an app for kitchen organization. The Home Food Storage app was listed, and the most recent update to that app os something like October or November 2015. I've just begun to play with the app, and it looks really promising. Is anyone on list

RE: Sonos

2016-03-12 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Hi Marie, My advice would be to put 2 Play 1 speakers into the kitchen area and to mount them so they are best placed for when you are sitting at the kitchen table or working in the kitchen. For the great room I would eventually use a set of Play 5 with a Sonos Sub and then again in the

Re: Sonos

2016-03-12 Thread Marie
Okay guys, I ordered a Play 5 last night so will be anxiously awaiting delivery. The main part of my house is taken up with the entryway, kitchen and a great room which are around 800 to 900 square feet and very open. So I will eventually add 4 to 6 Play 1 speakers to the area which should give

RE: Setting up fopydo and bookreading aid?

2016-03-12 Thread Richard Turner
It sounds like you need sighted help. Maybe someone who could watch the video? A rectangle, by definition, has two short sides and two long sides. If you got the Book Reading Aid, the Stand came with it most likely and it is stuck to the stand with the microsuction tape but if you pull up

Re: Setting up fopydo and bookreading aid?

2016-03-12 Thread Jenifer Barr
Hi Richard. Thanks for the instructions. They're not making sense. My foam pads only rotate one way... Away from the base... The base meaning the book reading aid... Right? Lift the stand off the base? I can't. Longer side facing me? It's like a rectangle. Sorry... Just confused. Lol. Help?

Setting up fopydo and bookreading aid?

2016-03-12 Thread Jenifer Barr
Hi all. I've lost the inructions for setting up the fopydo stand with the bookreading aid. Would anyone be able to help me? Thanks: Jenifer Barr Jenifer571 on dice world -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns

Re: Trekker Breeze units

2016-03-12 Thread Scott Berry
Hello there, Actually I think it’s a job for an individual programmer to do. I’ll begin the process of putting this together. I’ll create the program myself. I can then submit that to Humanware for a review and maybe they will put it on their cd for Maps. > On Mar 12, 2016, at 9:14 AM,

Re: Trekker Breeze units

2016-03-12 Thread Gadget Girl
Hello Scott. I have a Trekker Breeze and the first gen Victor Reader Stream. Yes, I agree! It is now time for HumanWare to make these units compatible with Apple computers. Maybe we can start a petition?? Regards, Gadget Girl Sent from my Apple gadget and dictated using Siri. > On Mar

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2016-03-12 Thread Tom Rash
Since I got my Apple TV 4, and am streaming my music from my PC via wireless transmission, I'm getting pauses in my music. It sounds like it could be buggering. I get a 1 to 3 second pause about every 3 songs or so. Is there a way to test if it's my hard drive, my wireless transmission from my

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2016-03-12 Thread Scott Berry
Hello there everyone, I am curious how many people have a Trekker Breeze GPS? The reason I am asking is I think it’s about time for us to have a Mac application which can copy maps, copy route data, update the device if there is new updates. I happen to have one. I am also looking at doing

Re: Whatsapp and voiceover

2016-03-12 Thread Oriol Gómez
I thought that was sort of intentional? I mean, we don't want voiceover speaking while a message is playing do we? On 3/12/16, Gerardo Corripio wrote: > While playing an audio message, VO loses focus, having to double-tap > to stop the message from playing before being able

Re: Whatsapp and voiceover

2016-03-12 Thread Gerardo Corripio
While playing an audio message, VO loses focus, having to double-tap to stop the message from playing before being able to flick around on the screen to go to the other messsages. El 11/03/2016 11:02 p.m., Sieghard Weitzel escribió: No, Doug Lee is a scrit writer who writes scripts for

Re: Whatsapp and voiceover

2016-03-12 Thread Oriol Gómez
Hi, whatsApp has no difficulties with voiceover whatsoever. I have the latest version and latest iOS. Please go update. On 3/12/16, Les Kriegler wrote: > Eva, you hijack this thread. I am most lost messages that I wish to say > because of that. Fortunately, there have been