[nfbcs] Setting Voiceover Speech Rate

[Sabra Ewing]

Or you can just tell Siri, open VoiceOver settings.

Sabra Ewing

> On Nov 22, 2016, at 9:32 AM, Jim Barbour <jbar at barcore.com> wrote:
> 
> Here you go...
> 
> 1.  Find the settings app and double tap on it.
> 2.  Flick right with one finger until you hear "General" and double tap on that.
> 3.  Flick right with one finger until you hear "Accessibility" and double tap on that.
> 4.  The first option should be "Voiceover", double tap on that.
> 5.  Flick right with one finger until you hear "speaking rate, heading".
> 6.  Flick right with one finger once more and you'll hear "speaking rate" and then a percentage.
> 7.  flick down with one finger to slow down speech, flick up with one finger to speed up speech.
> 8.  Once you have the speed where you want it, just press the home button to go back to your home screen.  No need to save anything.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Jim
> 
>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 08:29:29AM -0600, Sabra Ewing via nfbcs wrote:
>> You go to VoiceOver settings and then you go to speech. It should be somewhere near the top.
>> 
>> Sabra Ewing
>> 
>>> On Nov 22, 2016, at 12:01 AM, Nicole Torcolini via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> If you want to be able to change this stuff via the roter, you have to add
>>> it to the roter. That and everything else VoiceOver, unless 10 is very
>>> different from 9, is in Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver.
>>> 
>>> HTH,
>>> Nicole
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Peter Donahue via
>>> nfbcs
>>> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 8:33 PM
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>>> Cc: Peter Donahue
>>> Subject: [nfbcs] Setting Voiceover Speech Rate
>>> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>               This afternoon we upgraded my wife's iPhone to iOS10.1. When
>>> the upgrade was completed we discovered that her Voiceover speech rate was
>>> very fast. Despite the best efforts of the Sprint reps that helped us
>>> upgrade her iPhone they were unable to slow down the speaking rate. A
>>> refresher on how one can change the Voiceover speech rate is in order. If
>>> someone can send us a description of this procedure that will help a lot. It
>>> would also be nice if one could do this via Siri instead of going through
>>> the "Settings Menu." I went through the same thing when I upgraded my iPhone
>>> to iOS10 last summer and will need to look this trouble in the eye again
>>> when we upgrade to iOS 10.1 on my iPhone and our iPad Air 2.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>               It would be nice if one could save their Voiceover settings
>>> and have them imported whenever the iOS upgrades are installed to save one
>>> the trouble of having to always reset the speech rate whenever one upgrades
>>> the iOS or oSX operating system. This would allow one to save time and
>>> frustration whenever these upgrades are done.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>               Besides changing Voiceover settings via the "Settings Menu"
>>> isn't there a way to do this via the Roter? If so how does one do it? Help
>>> will be very much appreciated. All the best for a joyous and happy
>>> Thanksgiving from Mary and myself.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Peter Donahue
>>> 
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