[Njtechdiv] Verizon Text To Speech.

[Janie Degenshein]

Wowee
You were sure busy
Glad for this post and keep on advancing there Eileen!

From: Eileen Scrivani via Njtechdiv
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 8:16 PM
To: New Jersey Technology Division List
Cc: Eileen Scrivani
Subject: [Njtechdiv] Verizon Text To Speech.

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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