[nfbcs] Setting Voiceover Speech Rate

[Sabra Ewing]

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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