Hi, Deidre, When you use Google Voice Search, you may want to mute Voiceover speech temporarily with a three-finger-double-tap, especially for extended periods of searching. I think Google and Voiceover have a nice war with each other otherwise.
HtH, Teresa "We can see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well, and seeing with the brain is often called imagination."--Oliver Sacks > On Feb 16, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Deidre Muccio <deim...@verizon.net> wrote: > > Alan, and others > Thank you for trying to help with specifics of what I should hear, and where > things were. One problem was that I was not signed in as I had thought. Once > signed in I found the settings I wanted to turn on through the my account > link. Now it seems that when the app opens it says ok google and I'm ready > to search. All the latest news stuff is gone, or at least it was the last > time I looked! > I find it interesting that sighted persons who try to help have a > mindset where they think something should work a certain way, even when I > give them specific different info. I often prove them wrong, such as that > you can indeed have a non g mail e mail sign in for google, and that you can > have more than one sign in, though of course, that isn't exactly logical or > particularly efficient either. I don't find doing mail on the phone all that > comfortable and primarily do e mail from my desktop. I created a g mail e > mail to use only on the phone and I've got a Verizon account I access on the > computer. > Now it's back to that audio demo to see what Jonathan discovered, > which I have not yet discovered. So far I am disappointed that when Google > find results it only tells me that it has found them but it does not > automatically read them. Maybe I am missing an additional button I need to > hit on to get the speaker to read all the findings. > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Alan Lemly > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 11:13 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Google app > > Deidre, > When I open the latest version of the Google app, here are the buttons I get > : > > In the upper left corner of the screen is what I assume is my account button > which I described in my last post. It has a small picture of me and says my > name when it has focus. When I swipe right once, the next announced button > is search field where you type text if searching the old fashioned way. The > next swipe right goes to the voice search button which you can use to call > up the voice search if speaking okay Google doesn't work. The last button > reached when swiping right is Google now which when executed will provide > relevant information to your location such as current weather, etc. Finally, > they're is a recents button in the top right corner of the screen which for > some reason is skipped when swiping through the screen. I assume it shows > your recent Google searches. > > I hope this helps. > > Alan Lemly > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Feb 16, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Deidre Muccio <deim...@verizon.net> wrote: >> >> What I am not getting when I first open the Google App is the "display >> settings" button which is where Jonathan's audio demonstration begins >> once the app is opened. I found a tab that said something like explore >> settings but there is a utility button there and not the settings Jonathan > speaks of. > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
