[nabs-l] IOS 10

[David Andrews]

When I play voicemails, the transcription seems to appear.

Dave

At 05:26 PM 9/21/2016, you wrote:
>  Hi all,
>
>I noticed that in the new features of IOS 10, there is a new 
>Voicemail transcription option (which is currently in beta to my 
>understanding).  I just received a couple of voicemails, and haven't 
>sceen any options to get to the transcription option.
>The only options I see areplay/pause voicemail, voicemail position, 
>share, audio,
>delete, and edit, which for some reason is dimmed and can't press on 
>it.  Does anyone know how to get to the place where the voicemail 
>could be transcribed for you?  How good is this feature so far?
>Another thing  that I noticed with Siri: I usually use Siri to pace 
>phone calls by just telling her the number of the person I want to 
>call or, if that person is in my contacts list, tell her to call the 
>name of that person.  Well, just today I tried to call someone, and 
>for some reason Siri thought that I was calling an incomplete 
>number.  I counted exactly four attempts of me trying to call with 
>the same results, until finally I discovered that, in this new 
>version, (at least for me) you need to tell Siri the numbers very 
>clearly.  This is strange, because I didn't need to speak as clearly 
>in previous IOS versions.
>
>Overall, though, I do agree with you guys that this release has 
>brought about some really cool features.
>
>Thanks and have a good night,
>
>Sami----- Original Message -----
>From: Kaiti Shelton via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 16:54:05 -0400
>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] IOS 10
>
>Hi all,
>
>I updated and have not experienced jumping right into the app from
>notifications on the lock screen.  I've been doing that to access text
>messages, what's app messages, and other things without a problem.
>Perhaps it is a selective bug?
>Also, even as someone who has not tried using a braille display with
>the phone yet, I'm just not a fan of the way mail message threads are
>laid out now.  I liked having separate messages to keep everything
>more organized.  It's annoying to not necessarily recognize how many
>messages might be in a thread.  Say if someone emails me, and I
>quickly want to see what they say.  If I don't want to wait around to
>hear voiceover say, "3 messages in thread," I won't really know to go
>all the way through the thread.  That's just me.
>
>There are a few things I really do like about it, though.  I think
>notifications in general are nicer, and I'm having fun with the social
>features in messaging now.  The Siri kit is something I'll be
>interested to see further developed, and I also like the way Apple
>Music has been redesigned.  For those of you who make use of that
>service, I think the music app and apple music are much more
>streamlined now.
>
>Thanks,
>
>On 9/17/16, David Dunphy via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>HI jamie!
>I upgraded to IOS 10, and have found things to work farely well.
>I had
>a small problem getting around the app store to search for an App, but
>Serie made that work OK.
>I haven't had the chance to play around with everything, but if you check
>out
>http://iaccessibility.net
>they have quite a few well written guides on the new features so you
>get an idea of what the features are and what they do.
>Hope this helps.
> From David
>
>On 9/16/16, Jameyanne Fuller via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I'm wondering if anyone has updated to IOS 10 yet.  I have an iPhone 6S,
>and
>it looks like IOS 10 has some pretty drastic changes.  If you have
>upgraded,
>I'm interested to know what your thoughts are.
>
>Best,
>
>Jameyanne
>
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