Hi Neal, yeah it appears to have happened sometime this week. RSS feeds aren't 
affected at this point. I have written a blog post about this at:
http://mosen.org/index.php/unless-they-reverse-course-im-done-with-audioboom/ 
<http://mosen.org/index.php/unless-they-reverse-course-im-done-with-audioboom/>
and I urge people who are as concerned about this as I am to share it widely.
In the mean time, Sound Cloud has a lot to like.
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
http://Mosen.org

> On 26/02/2015, at 12:09 pm, Neal Ewers <neal.ew...@ravenswood.org> wrote:
> 
> Jonathan, When did this take effect? My wife was able to play my audio last 
> week before she signed up with an account. So, this must have been recent. 
> Does this also mean that if one clicks on your feed, they can no longer 
> download the file which also used to be possible?
>  
> Thanks for all your knowledge on this.
>  
> Neal
>  
> From: viphone@googlegroups.com 
> <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>[mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com 
> <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mosen
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> To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Re: Audio Demo of the iOS 8 Speak Screen Feature
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> Hi Reggie, sorry you've had trouble playing the audio. Audioboom have now 
> introduced a ridiculous policy requiring people to have Audioboom accounts if 
> they want to play audio from their website.
> I am in the process of moving my content over to Sound Cloud, and you can 
> hear the demo there, at
> http://soundcloud <http://soundcloud/>.com/jmosen/speakscreen
> Jonathan Mosen
> Mosen Consulting
> Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
> http://Mosen.org <http://mosen.org/>
>  
>> On 26/02/2015, at 11:11 am, Regina Alvarado <reggie.alvar...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:reggie.alvar...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>  
>> 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 
>> <mailto: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> 
>> [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>] On 
>> Behalf Of Jonathan Mosen
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 4:23 PM
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto: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
>>  
>> <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 <http://mosen.org/>
>>  
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