[Njtechdiv] Verizon Text To Speech.

[Eileen Scrivani]

Hi All, 

I wanted to give you an update. I have called verizon about their recently announced Text To Speech option. Text-to-speech is now set up and running on both of my tv sets.

While I was not able to enable it on my own because I don’t have sighted assistance around, I was able to have Verizon send a technician to the house to enable it.  

Its very cool! Now, it will speak out loud, when I do a channel up/down or punch in a direct station number and it will speak out loud to me the number I’m going to, that stations name like cbs, pbs, qvc, tcm, etc, along with the program that is on and the time it runs from/too.

I can also navigate the menus once I press the menu button and then right/left arrow & up/down arrows.

Getting the Descriptive Video service (DVS) to broadcast still requires that both DVS is either set to on/yes and also requires Spanish as the preferred language. Since I can continue navigating the menus with Spanish on at least now I can turn it back to English if I know there is a show on a station that is broadcasting with the Spanish language option.  I have yet to try using the on Demand, DVS & Pay-Per View options but I have come across them in the menus and are there waiting for further exploration.

Additionally, Verizon sent me aBraille manual on how the Text To Speech works which honestly, doesn’t say that much. Once someone initially enables text-to-speech and walks you through it its very easy and the instruction manual doesn’t tell very much at all. And, they also sent me the TV lineup in Braille of the tv stations I have with my package. 

So between this and the ability to also view TV listings using the NFB Newsline app I’m in TV heaven! Finally I have access to my television and programming. 

Eileen 
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