Carol, Certainly agree that the UK British English voice has some issues, and I'd encourage you to write to Apple about them, as for your other issues, I agree that the sensitivity seems to have been adjusted ever so slightly upwards, and, to me personally its slightly to high.
Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 20 Sep 2013, at 13:14, Carol <carol.pearso...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > First, I love some things in IOS7 and think Apple have done a good job in > many areas. However, so far as us VI's are concerned, it seems that there > are some definite difficulties and pitfalls and I'm feeling a bit frustrated > with these. > > First, for me at least the 4S is in some ways quite snappy and, in others, > just not quite snappy enough ... Then, I'm a bit disappointed as the UK > English voice just doesn't sound quite right, even on its higher setting and > awful on its compact setting. Since we listen to speech most of the time, > these voices really need to be very good! > > However, my main frustration right now is being unable to perform general > editing techniques nearly as well or as quickly as in IOS6. This is because > of the more sensitive touch, which can create random incorrect letters. This > would even be OK if, when editing and working through word by wor and letter > by letter, the voices were really tiptop and selecting was better than it is > at present. I find I can no longer select and delete quantities of text as > before because so often the cursor jumps about (often putting me at the top > of a message when I was editing further down) (or the pinch method just > doesn't work at all. > > Finally, I am finding the dictation when using Siri, less accurate than > before and I was looking forward to seeing some leaps forward in this area. > > M-Braille is definitely my best bet here right now for writing but I still > have a need to utilise these other skills when I need to get things done > quickly and corretly. > > The matter which brought this in focus for me was when I was trying to text a > quick message into which I needed to place some numeric and punctuation > signs. I found that, when in touch typing mode, it was just too easy to > slide a finger and find that a character was selected and then extra > characters were available to me, but they just got inserted every time I slid > my finger around - so a real mess! I did try to edit using standard typing > and this was a little better, but I don't want to use this as I find it > generally much quicker to use the touch typing method. > > I'd love some of you to try out texting, including the characters that are > available in the Numbersoption, and see what you think! > > For now, I'm taking a break and a cuppa! > > Carol P > Sent from the Mac > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
