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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=4>Wowee</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>You were sure busy</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Glad for this post and keep on advancing there
Eileen!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=njtechdiv@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:njtechdiv@nfbnet.org">Eileen Scrivani via Njtechdiv</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 06, 2017 8:16 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=etscrivani@verizon.net
href="mailto:etscrivani@verizon.net">Eileen Scrivani</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Njtechdiv] Verizon Text To Speech.</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Hi All, </DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>I can also navigate the menus once I press the menu button and then
right/left arrow & up/down arrows.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>Eileen </DIV></DIV></DIV>
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