I have a series 2 watch and keep the volume set to 30 or 40%, since the speaker is smaller than other newer watch speakers. I typically use the haptic feedback to find out what time it is, and use the watch's health tracking abilities. Mark is right though that it sometimes takes multiple taps to wake the screen and get the vibrated time feedback. As long as we're talking about the watch, I have a free app called Sleep Watch. If I wear my watch overnight it automatically tracks my sleep habits and patterns. I then get a notification on the phone the next day asking how well I slept. The Sleep Watch app has some unlabled buttons, but I can usually open it, answer the question, and then move on with the day.
Wayne On 1/2/19, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > I am totally blind and do at times turn the volume down extremely low > although rarely all the way. Having said that I have had it where it was so > low that I couldn't hear it at all because I was in a noisy place. In that > case I just press the digital crown or turn it up since I have "wake on > crown up" enabled, then I do a 2-finger double tap and drag my fingers up > the screen and I don't usually have any issues getting my volume to come up > that way. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of M. > Taylor > Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 8:55 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: How do I make the watch *not speak the time? > > Hello Anna, > > Yours is a very good suggestion. > > However, were I totally blind, I'm not certain that I would be comfortable > doing this as I would have no definitive feedback as to when the watch was > awake or locked. > > In fact, I experimented with this today and; as I expected, without > audio/hap tic feedback, I had no way of telling if the screen was on or off > without looking at the display. Now, 9 times out of 10, simply touching the > display will wake up the watch but, and I want to emphasize this, but, not > always. Sometimes, one much touch the display multiple times in order to > wake up the device. > > I would think that, in certain scenarios, a totally blind person could get > thoroughly disoriented with the device under certain conditions without > audio/hap tic feedback. > > Of course, one could use iOS to increase the volume on the watch, at any > time. > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Anna Dresner > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2019 6:40 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: How do I make the watch *not speak the time? > > Hi, > > One thing you can do is turn the volume all the way down. To adjust the > volume, double-tap and hold with two fingers and slide them up or down. > > Best, > Anna > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 2, 2019, at 4:34 AM, Avnish Chopra <lega...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It would really be nice if we could switch off the voice reading of >> the time! It’s very disconcerting when my shirt sleeve or cuff brushes >> against the watch and it just reads out the time at most awkward moments >> Thank you very much! >> >> >> On 02-Jan-2019, at 10:18 AM, Ann Byrne <ann...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >> I could turn off VoiceOver for silence, but then the watch wouldn't >> vibrate the time, right? I know how to silence it once it starts talking, >> but at work I don't want the darned thing speaking unless spoken to. >> >> At 10:25 PM 1/1/2019, you wrote: >>> Hello Ann, >>> >>> The scenario you describe happens to me, also, from time-to-time. >>> >>> However, this almost never happens as I have continued to practice the >>> time tap gesture. >>> >>> Also, be aware that you can immediately silence VoiceOver by placing your >>> palm over the watch face. >>> >>> I don't know if VoiceOver speech can be muted on the watch, however. >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On >>> Behalf Of Ann Byrne >>> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2019 5:00 PM >>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: How do I make the watch *not speak the time? >>> >>> I have checked haptic in the settings, and sometimes when I double tap >>> the watch it vibrates the time. 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