[Electronics-Talk] Losing Speech When Certain iPhone Apps are Opened

[Christopher Chaltain]

I haven't seen this issue myself. I have my own 4S and a 5 from my 
employer, and I haven't seen this on either machine.

On 01/05/16 23:24, cheez via Electronics-Talk wrote:
> Eh, Peter, I've had the same issue.
> I usually just hold down the Home button to activate Siri.  Sometimes
> I'll tell her to turn voice over on, or I'll just keep quiet.  Either
> way the voice will start talking again.
>
> I know not why this is happening.  Probably a bug in the latest IOS.
>
> Vince
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Donahue via Electronics-Talk"
> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> To: "Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances"
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> Cc: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue2 at satx.rr.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2016 9:47 AM
> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] Losing Speech When Certain iPhone Apps are
> Opened
>
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>>     We upgraded our iPhones last Friday and the Voiceover voices
>> remained the same following the upgrade. What we are having difficulty
>> with is getting Voiceover back when certain apps are opened without
>> having to shut down and restart the device in the hopes it will work
>> with the app in question. I'll need to have a sighted person observe
>> this app's load-up when it is opened. It may be that it's taking a
>> minute for the app to completely load temporarily knocking out
>> Voiceover until the loading is complete. If any of you have had this
>> problem I'd like to hear how to deal with it.
>>
>>     By the way how does one activate the app switcher. By doing so we
>> could see how many apps are running and perhaps can shut some down
>> giving the device more free memory to work with. This may be another
>> possible reason for losing speech when certain apps are opened. Any
>> suggestions will be helpful.
>>
>> Peter Donahue
>>
>>
>>
>> Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk wrote:
>>> I notice the voice changed after the last update, too.  It's still
>>> female,
>>> but now it has an accent.  It says Corn-gress instead of Congress, for
>>> example.
>>> There might be a voice setting under General, but I'm not sure.
>>> Tracy
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Nicole Torcolini via Electronics-Talk
>>> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2016 10:19 AM
>>> To: electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
>>> Cc: Nicole Torcolini
>>> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] iPhone Voice Is Different after Updating
>>>
>>>                  Yesterday, I updated my iPhone 6. I had not updated
>>> for a
>>> while, so I still had one of the 8 versions. Immediately after updating,
>>> everything was fine. However, when I went into the app switcher to close
>>> apps, the voice changed. I have looked through the different settings in
>>> accessibility, but I cannot find a way to put it back. Is this the new
>>> voice? If there is a way to put it back, how? I do not know exactly
>>> which
>>> voice I had before; it was a female, English U.S. voice. If it is not
>>> possible to fix the voice, is there a way to remove the update?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Nicole
>>>
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