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

[cheez]

It doesn't happen often.  In fact, frequency isn't that bad.  So it may be a 
bug in the latest software, or a buffering issue that occurs.
But at least I have a fix.

Vince

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From: "Christopher Chaltain via Electronics-Talk" 
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Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Losing Speech When Certain iPhone Apps are 
Opened


>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"
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>> 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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