Re: speech muting

2009-11-05 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi, Well, after being off this list for almost 2 months, I'm finally back on through a G Mail account. I had similar problems with the inadvertent muting of speech, and Erik's tiup abouyt adjusting volume with VO Command arrows is really useful. Had no idea about that one. Within the pa

Re: speech muting

2009-11-04 Thread peter apgar
this switch changes the three finger tripple tap from muteing to turning off vo. this allows sighted users to use the phone as normal. it also allows a blind user to turn vo back on with the three finger tripple tap Pete On Nov 4, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hi Erik, > > O

Re: speech muting

2009-11-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I definitely like it. If you're not familiar with an iphone, the trackpad is definitely a good assistant if you're planning to obtain one. It's probably just the positioning of your fingers, really. I haven't had an issue, but you have to be rather accurate with the gestures. Doesn't

Re: speech muting

2009-11-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, You know what is totally cool about the trackpad? I'm sure the iPhone can do the same, since it's the same technology. I accidentally laid the length of my entire finger across the trackpad, and I got a triple finger tap. It was difficult to duplicate, though, since my fingers are sle

Re: speech muting

2009-11-04 Thread erik burggraaf
Yeh, I'm so fast with the keyboard that it is really chafing me to relearn on the track pad. It seems to me that there's an accuracey or sensativity level that's not quite right. It mistakes a router turn for a pinch closed sometimes and makes other mistakes as we... So, I'm getting the

Re: speech muting

2009-11-04 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Erik, Odd that the checkbox doesn't change. I don't turn speech off on my iphone much, so have never checked that out. Anyway, glad this helped. You know, it's funny. When SL came out, I was really excited about the trackpad commander. But I stopped using it almost immediately, becau

Re: speech muting

2009-11-04 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Donna, I just did the double tap 3 and yes it muted and unmuted my speech. The odd thing is, when I checked the mute speech setting in voiceover utility it was unchecked even though the speech was muted. Checking and unchecking the box does nothing if yu mute speech using the trackpad

Re: speech muting

2009-11-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Just a tip. Turn keyboard help on when the trackpad is on, and try out different gestures to get feedback on their functionality if you haven't tried it. Also, the standard gestures are documented in the VoiceOver help. Keep in mind, of course, that you can also assign new gestures wi

Re: speech muting

2009-11-03 Thread peter apgar
Good evening, The following is a little information for clarification. a. Three finger double tap mutes and unmutes VO. b Three finger tripple tap turns the screen curtin on or off. c. a three finger single tap will tel you what page number you are on and the number of available pages. Tha

Re: speech muting

2009-11-03 Thread peter apgar
a three finger double tap will mute VO. if you turn BO off and on again it will react exactly as you posted. the way to solve this is to again three finger double tap. this feature works great especialy when you don't want VO to read information every so many minutes. On Nov 3, 2009, at

Re: speech muting

2009-11-03 Thread Marshall Scott
Hi, I found out the hard way that a certain multi finger tap will mute speech. I think it was a 3 finger double tap. Anyway, I think it's similar to the turn screen curtain on/off command. HTH Marsh On Nov 3, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Erik, > > The speech muting pr

Re: speech muting

2009-11-03 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Erik, The speech muting problem is the one I was asking about a couple of weeks ago. I haven't got a recent machine with a multi-touch trackpad, but several people on my French list have reported this problem. I shall pass on your solution to them as it's much better than throwing a

Re: speech muting

2009-11-03 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Erik, The gesture that turns off speech on the iphone is a double-tap with three fingers. I know it seems unlikely, but is it possible you did this by accident? It's a toggle, so the next time it happens, try doing a three-finger double-tap, and see if speech starts up again. If it