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

[Mike Freeman]

It also could be that an app is flooding VoiceOver with data and VO doesn't
quite know how to get over the firehose of data gagging it. Sometimes
turning VO off and back on using the Tripple-click-home gesture at least
gets one to a situation where one at least can get an idea what's going on.

Also, since version 9 of iOS came out, VO occasionally hesitates for some
time.

No solutions I know of except to be patient.

Mike Freeman


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Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Losing Speech When Certain iPhone Apps are
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Peter-

just a thought...

on both of my iphones voice /speech will stop seemingly randomly.
Sometimes serie even will tell me voice over is on. 

In that case the toggle of

Three finger double tap turns speech again.  

HTH

It's a dog's life and I wouldn't change it for anything!  

On May 1, 2016, at 9:24 PM, cheez via Electronics-Talk
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> 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

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Subject: [Electronics-Talk] Losing Speech When Certain iPhone Apps are
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> 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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