Re: accessible hymnal app?

unless I am missing something, I don't think it works like that over here. one can send books to somewhere like RNIB, to get them put in to audio, but with something like this, I really need an electronic version that I can search easily for the hymn numbers and/or titles, which given the

Re: accessible hymnal app?

Hi Simon, In the United States, where I am, if I buy a print book, I can send proof of purchase to the publisher and get an accessible version. I don't know anything about the laws in the UK. But, yes, 60 pounds a year is a bit crazy when a sighted person can buy the hymnal with music for less

looking for anyone with experience with i cast 2

The problem I am having is that when I cast 2 comes up it pulls VO way down and does not appear to support BT not even for program feedback. Suggestions for a VO workaround? Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any

Re: accessible hymnal app?

already looked in to this, and the only online version of mission praise costs £60 a year to access, which I am not really that happy with. because of poxy copy right issues, even somewhere like torch trust can't produce an accessible version, as I have also looked in to that. Simon

Re: accessible hymnal app?

Christian Book Distributers sells a words only edition. What about contacting the publisher to see if you could get a text version, then you could put it into Voice Dream Reader, and read it that way, or another app. Richard "The problem with people who have no vices is that you can be pretty

accessible hymnal app?

hello all, wondered if anyone knows of a voice-over accessible hymnal app? if at all possible, the closer it could be to mission praise, the better. Simon -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running

Fit Bit [was "Re: Disable caller's name spoken when phone rings"]

I have the Charge HR, so it has the heart rate monitoring. The Fit Bit app is accessible. You use the same Fit Bit app for all Fit Bit devices. I don't think the full blown watch capabilities with the notifications and all would be worth the money, since the Fit Bit band itself won't be

Re: Reliable, and accessible, news applications

I like newsify. For rss feeds. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 8, 2016, at 7:15 PM, Larry Lumpkin wrote: > > I like lire for rss feeds and icatcher for podcasts. > > > -Original Message- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On

Re: KNFB reader, having more focused subject headings

Hi, Reading the emails now i can see people wrote about the KNFB reader offer quite a lot but I was busy during the last couple of weeks and did not have time to read emails, I just look through the subject headings and deleted the ones I was not interested in, of course all the subject

RE: Reliable, and accessible, news applications

I like lire for rss feeds and icatcher for podcasts. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D. Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 9:00 PM To: 'viphone@googlegroups.com' Subject: RE:

RE: Reliable, and accessible, news applications

I like NFB-Newsline as my go to for a variety of news. No audio, though, but one can find a wide range of newspapers and magazines, from each state, nationally, and internationally. Keith -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

Re: Reliable, and accessible, news applications

I'm not sure about how much audio you can get, but the Apple News app draws from many different news sources and is fully accessible. Some of the news channel apps for your local stations might be worth trying. Also some newspaper apps. I find they vary a lot in accessibility and even if they

Re: Reliable, and accessible, news applications

Well, the NPR News app works very well. It doesn't go back as far as I would like in terms of playing older programs, but that's a minor issue for me. It's perfectly accessible. It will let you listen to program segments, add favorite stations, read articles, and more. (If it lets you play

Reliable, and accessible, news applications

Hello to all of you, I am sure this have been discussed before. However, I am looking for a news source, that is reliable, and pretty much fully accessible. Does anything like this exist? I tried using CNN, but I was not very impressed with it. I would like an application that would let me

Re: Disable caller's name spoken when phone rings

Carol P Sent from my iPhone using MBraille On 8 Jul 2016, at 21:27, Cristóbal wrote: I had a similar query a few weeks back as I'm an early bird and my wife hates mornings with the white hot passion of 1,000 burning suns. It's not unusual for me to be up by 5:00 or

RE: Nest thermostat

Also, you could look at using the “auto away” feature of the Nest (which makes use of the motion sensor in the Nest), and there’s a geofencing feature you can enable such that when your phone leaves the area of the Nest, it automatically goes into “away” unless someone triggers the motion

Re: Another good Voice Dream Reader voice.

wayne, Bookshare now has over four hundred and fifty thousand titles of fully accessible books. It is the best investment, in my opinion, for anyone who enjoys reading a wide variety of material. Especially since so many of their books are coming straight from the publishers. Enjoy, Richard

Re: Problem inputting new line on bluetooth keyboard

If you press option plus enter, that will enter a new line command. Jennie Facer On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 3:20 PM -0600, "'Gary Robinson' via VIPhone" wrote: Hi all, This problem originally came up on my wife's RIVO Bluetooth keypad she uses with her

Re: Another good Voice Dream Reader voice.

VDR and Bookshare is a great combination! I have Sally, and while she sounds quite smoothe and pleasant (which totally surprised me, considering my earlier complaints about most Ivona and Acapella voices) I absolutely hate how flat sounding she is. She always seems to use the same speaking

Re: Disable caller's name spoken when phone rings

I've been reading up on these FitBit Devices, and trying to compare them to figure out which one might be best for me, and I'm probably going to go for one of the wristband options. I haven't decided if continual heart rate monitoring is something I want quite yet. Anyhow, how accessible do you

A Question for Facebook App Users Regarding the Viewing of Timeline or Group Feeds in Chronological Order

Hello Everyone, It seems that when I view a group feed in the Facebook app, the individual member posts are not necessarily sorted into chronological order, from newest to oldest. Is there a way to sort either my timeline feed or group feeds into chronological order? The steps I use to view

Problem inputting new line on bluetooth keyboard

Hi all, This problem originally came up on my wife's RIVO Bluetooth keypad she uses with her Iphone 6 running IOS 9.3.2. However I have replacated the problem on my own Iphone using an apple bluetooth keyboard so I suspect the problem is within IOS itself. When inputting text into the

RE: Disable caller's name spoken when phone rings

I had a similar query a few weeks back as I'm an early bird and my wife hates mornings with the white hot passion of 1,000 burning suns. It's not unusual for me to be up by 5:00 or 5:30 blind related sleep issues aside. An Apple Watch was suggested to me, but I'm not interested in one. Much less

Re: Disable caller's name spoken when phone rings

Oh, wow! Really! Thanks for the suggestion! I thought only the Apple Watch could do this. Any suggestions as to what I might purchase? Do these devices also track sleep habits? I've always thought that would be kind of neat. Thanks, Ari > On Jul 8, 2016, at 11:46 AM, Sieghard Weitzel

Re: Another good Voice Dream Reader voice.

I really haven't gotten into different voices, figuring that I can adjust to most anything, and that different voices are very subjective to each person listening and what they like or don't like. However, with this discussion, I went back and browsed through all the available voices; wow! I ended

RE: Please, looking for an alternative app.

I would probably first try to determine what is wrong with her Dropbox account and fix it. If there is a virus or malware then it is likely that it is in one of the files she has stored there, I doubt that Dropbox itself is doing anything and if it is a problem with a file and she transfers all

RE: Disable caller's name spoken when phone rings

Hi Ari, And there are a number of relatively inexpensive Bluetooth wristbands out there which will wake you up with vibration and I don't think that sort of vibration will be as noticeable as when a phone vibrates especially if it is lying on a hard surface such as a wooden night table.

Re: Another good Voice Dream Reader voice.

My biggest problem with most Acapela and Ivona voices is that they kind of have this weird up-and-down internation in the middle of words. It's very sudden and jerky-sounding to me, and sort of sounds like the voice was put through auto tuning. All the NeoSpeech voices sound a lot smoother when

RE: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

There's been tons and tons of replies regarding this thread though it comes up all the time and there's the very same types of messages in the archive. will have a different reason as to why one uses an app. Here is the link to the app store so you can determine if the app meets your needs:

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

oh my god, I don't know how could I survive without vdr, definetely not in my life plan. El 08/07/2016 a las 07:59 a.m., Gerardo Corripio escribió: > > I use VoiceDream Reader for audiobooks especially; no having to cope > with transfering them via ITunes! and yes also for Daisy Bookshare

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

I use VoiceDream Reader for audiobooks especially; no having to cope with transfering them via ITunes! and yes also for Daisy Bookshare books as well. Ilove the fact that Voice Dream Reader has a one-way of doing things, regardless of what format one reads in! El 08/07/2016 07:42 a.m., Russ

RE: Please, looking for an alternative app.

Try OneDrive but for listening to MP3 books you won't be able to keep your place unless you use something like Voice Dream Reader to import the files into for listening. But, things you don't care if you start back where you were, OneDrive will work, though you have to "make it available off

RE: Disable caller's name spoken when phone rings

Hi, I wonder if you could successfully use a third party app such as Alarmed. I use my AppleWatch, and turn the volume down to 1% or 5%, and use the vibration alert, too. One can even mute the alarm if you want, and just get the vibration alert. Keith -Original Message- From:

Re: Restoring Phone from Icloud Backup

Hello, They will redownload. So, at the slide to reset screen, you will get to a screen, where it says setup as new, import from android, restore from iTunes, restore from iCloud backup. Choose iCloud backup. Sent from a Braille Sense - Original Message - From: Lynda Ingraham

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

Voice dream reader is one of my favorite apps. I use it to read books from bookshare, listen to my collection of old time radio shows and books in the epub format. -Original Message- From: Eden Kizer Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2016 11:01 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: why do

Re: Please, looking for an alternative app.

Hello, thank you guys for your suggestions. Isn't Google Drive for text documents only? She needs something to access MP3 files as well, so that she can listen to music and books. Thank you for your help in advance. With kind regards Maria On 8. 7. 2016 14:08, Richard Turner wrote: You can

Re: Please, looking for an alternative app.

You can use OneDrive depending on which version of Windows. If she has an Office 365 subscription, you get 1 TB of storage. I think it is 10 GB free, not sure. Also Google Drive. HTH, Richard "The problem with people who have no vices is that you can be pretty sure they are going to have

Restoring Phone from Icloud Backup

Could someone please tell me how to restore my phone from an Icloud backup? I have been having a lot of problems with my phone bein unresponsive. I constantly have to lock my phone only to unlock it to continue doing what I was doing. Last night, I backed my phone up to the

Re: Please, looking for an alternative app.

You can use Google Drive. I don't use it myself, but i think you get about 15Gb free. Dave. -Original Message- From: Mária Orovčíková Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 12:25 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Please, looking for an alternative app. Hello all, please does anyone

Please, looking for an alternative app.

Hello all, please does anyone know any app for I-devices and Windows computers which is similar to Dropbox and can sync files? My friend used Dropbox for quite a long time, but she can no longer use it as it seems on her Dropbox account there is some kind of virus or malware. She scanned

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

Did I hear that right? You find that playing something with VDR while having the screen locked drains your battery faster than playing something with VDR while having your screen unlocked? That's really, really weird! I can't help you with the HQ Daniel voice, but I think I remember hearing

Re: Disable caller's name spoken when phone rings

Yes, that is frustrating. I've long wanted to make the alarm volume low while keeping the ringtone volume high. My husband is a very light slleeper, to the point that a vibrating phone will wake him up. So finding something that will disturb him as little as possible while waking me up at the

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

Richard, I would agree with you on all of these reasons for using VD are, X set one. these high quality voices of which you speak, are not available to me any longer! I still cannot use Daniel enhanced when in "play" mode. I still cannot read download or use Vittorio my favourite and bought

Re: why do people use voicedream reader just curious

Hi! I see some folks already gave you some answers I was thinking about so I'll just drop in what is missing. 1. When reading text, web pages or something with Voice Over you need to have your device unlocked and you have to watch wether you going to accidentally