Following our conversation about the A lady today I just came across
something interesting when I was using my device. She told me that adaptive
volume is on. I asked her the time and she spoke really quietly. I stamped
my feet to create ambient noise and she answered really really loudly.
Wonder is it something like that affecting how muffled are clear it is. I
will mess around with it and see if I can notice any change. And Adrian
is right The command for treble and bass only affects the music not the
voice.
On Sat 16 Dec 2023 at 18:16, ANNE Marie Kearney <
annemariekearney952@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi guys thank you very much for wonderful meeting today. I’m pleased to
say that I have managed to update my iOS by deleting over 5GB of audiobooks
from my phone which was actually taking up a team GB in audible. Hope you
all have a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year
On Sat 16 Dec 2023 at 17:16, Cearbhall O'Meadhra <
cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Very glad, Ken, thanks for all you work.
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
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fb-exchange-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *On Behalf Of *Kenneth Walsh
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Cearbhall
An excellent job as always. You captured everything despite a busy
meeting.
All The Best,
Ken
On 16 Dec 2023, at 16:10, Cearbhall O'Meadhra <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
In attendance: 11.
Apologies: martin
Poor Jackie appealed to the group for a cure for her severe and painful
toothache without a dentist. Solutions rained down on her from whiskey,
bonjela, paracetamol to such older methods as a loop of thread and an open
door.
Jackie and Stuart reported a 3-hour outage of electricity in Sligo during
the week but, remarkably, there was no reference to the disruption in any
media .
The result was that Jackie's Sky box failed to work until the internet
was restored and the onboard screen reader was able to work again. In the
process of reconnecting, Jackie had to press the WPS button. Adrian warned
that pressing the WPS button leaves the network open to anyone else from
outside to log in to the network. The password would be needed to close out
this exposure.
Ken reported the establishment of a new Insight support group for people
with hearing loss and visual impairment. Meetings are expected to begin
early in the New Year.
The rebranding of NCBI has meant that the Smart Hub skill, available on
Amazon Echo devices, has to change. Although the functionality of the hub
will remain the same, there have been a few changes made. The first of
course being that the hub is no longer called NCBI. This has changed to the
Vision Ireland (VI) smart hub. Simply say “Alexa, launch My VI” to launch
this skill.
The changes made to the existing skill are set to be released in January
2024. It is important to note that existing users of the skill will be
required to re-link their Amazon account if they wish to continue having
access to talking newspapers and magazines. More information will be sent
out closer to the release date.
Jackie reported that registering to My VI involved so many commands that
she found it confusing. She also felt that an older person, not fully
versed in technology would be unable to manage the registration.
Joanne noticed that Siri is sending out her text messages automatically
without confirmation since a recent update. Various members explained that
this is controlled by a new setting under Siri which is activated by
default. To access this setting, go to settings>Siri & Search>
"Automatically send messages">on/off.
A brief discussion of Bing, Gemini and ChatGPT observed that Google's
Gemini is not very good and in no way competes with ChatGPT.
Ann Marie found that she had not enough memory to allow her to install
the latest update. On checking the memory usage of her apps in IOS
settings, she saw that IOS claimed that she was using 6GB storage for 1
book in Audible. One audio book could not occupy more than 600MB, Members
who had experienced that same issue advised that she remove Audible
altogether from the iPhone, after noting any passwords that were involved.
A fresh instal of Audible should reveal amore realistic account of
available storage.
Adrian has initiated a usage of Mastodon. Four members of the Cork club
are signed up to it as an experiment. Adrian is tracking some hashtags that
are of interest.
Mastodon has a section called Explore which shows trending posts,
trending hashtags and trending links. Here's how to see it: On your
server's website or the Mastodon web app, click on the # Explore link or
the # icon on the right of the screen.
Look at the local feed of postings that will show all the users on your
group.
It may be that you will need screen recognition to identify buttons.
Cearbhall was trying to find a way to lighten the sound of the Alexa
voice. He found it to be muffled with too much bass. The next ten minutes
were taken up listening to various voices that Alexa could deploy as the
Alexa voice. Various attempts were made to find a voice that matched the
lighter tone that was sought. However, even though the voice was selected,
Alexa seemed to return to the default voice every time. To experiment with
this, you can call Alexa to change voice" Alexa will then offer the first
voice to be selected or move on to the next offering. Everyone should try
this and see what they find.
The group discovered that Zoom would not let music be heard through the
microphone in the meeting. It seems that the sound is filtered, to allow
only the spoken voice to come through. Ken was able to share some music
from YouTube with Zoom and that was heard clearly in the meeting.
as the sounds of the "Fairytale of New York" rang out, The meeting ended
with Christmas greetings to all present and to all users of the Cork
Exchange Club
The next meeting will take place on the 6th of January 2024!
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
