[nfbcs] Setting Voiceover Speech Rate

[Jim Barbour]

Ah, indeed you can. That will bring you right to the page that has the speech rate slider on it.

Thanks Sabra,

Jim

Written While on the Move

> On Nov 22, 2016, at 9:11 AM, Sabra Ewing <sabra1023 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>>> To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'
>>>> 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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