Ok, not just me then; so thanks for this. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Mosen" <jmo...@mosen.org> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 10:56 PM Subject: Re: Audio Demo of the iOS 8 Speak Screen Feature
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 > On 26/02/2015, at 11:11 am, Regina Alvarado <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/> > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone > list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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