Anyone testing screen reader: I touched the status bar and then swiped down with 2 fingers. The voice that came on was Karen I think. Can I change the voice to the IOS voice or even Alex? Does this work all over? I used for email so far, but I think it would be great for kindle books or iBooks because it seems louder than the default. By the way, what is the difference between this mode of reading and just swiping down on the screen. I tried to hear the podcast but could not. Might be a great podcast for applevis. I sure didn't know about this.
reggie and Allegra On Feb 25, 2015, at 12:07 PM, Alan Lemly <wale...@gmail.com> wrote: Jonathan, Thanks so much for this excellent tip and audio demo. This is just one more tool to tuck away in our bag of tricks when we need screen reading done on a locked device in an app not supporting this. I wanted to comment on an issue I experienced after following your demo and testing the speak screen feature. I opened an iBook and Alex started reading just as in your demo when I asked Siri to "speak screen". I then decided I wanted Australian Karen as my screen speaking voice so went through the steps to select her. When I asked Siri to speak screen after this change, VoiceOver would read the page number footer of the iBook and nothing else. This was done with my VO default voice and not Karen. I tried to change back to Alex and to my default Samantha but kept getting the same issue. I finally did a hard reset of my iPhone 6 running iOS 8.1.3 and this corrected the problem. Something else I noted is that the screen speaking voice sounds slightly different than with VoiceOver and its volume is louder on my iPhone. These are minor differences and the minimize volume button on my earpods let me set the volume where I wanted it. Thanks again for this great tip. Alan Lemly -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mosen Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 4:23 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Audio Demo of the iOS 8 Speak Screen Feature Hi everyone, a client of mine is a student who uses iBooks a lot. He was getting frustrated with not having a method to listen to iBooks without locking the screen and without notifications interrupting the book. After I showed him how this was possible using the speak screen feature, he suggested I do an audio presentation about this for others who didn't know about this iOS 8 benefit. A lot of VoiceOver users think that Speak Screen has no benefits for them, but it's a great feature. Here's my demo. https://audioboom.com/boos/2927053-ios-8-s-speak-screen-feature-listen-to-ibooks-with-your-screen-locked-and-more Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org -- 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. -- 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.
