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The meeting opened with a discussion of the demonstration of Appleâs American
and other voices circulated by Stuart earlier in the week. Some are a bit
robotic. Others are very natural and still others are novelty voices with more
playful sounds. There is a remarkable number of child voices among them.
Paul wanted advice on how to transfer contacts from a Huawei phone to the
Samsung Galaxy. As no Android users were present, speculation was the only
option. Some suggested looking for Google transfer tools as being the most
likely option for a free android solution. Other possibilities were Google
Cloud for backing up Huawei and downloading saved data to the Galaxy. Vodafone
was available locally to complete the copying process but would charge for the
service.
Paul is to follow up and report.
Ken wanted to correct the iPhone voice, Moira, in her pronunciation of the
name "Sonia". Stuart guided him to the pronunciation tool under
setting>Accessibility>Voiceover>Speech. What appeared to be a simple question
turned out to be very complicated after all. Jackie kept jumping in and out of
the meeting with this and that suggestion but finally came up with the best
spelling: "SONIA". The "all caps" setting seemed to make all the difference!
Ken wants to sleep better and is wakened every night by announcements coming
through his iPhone. Happily various people had the solution: Turn on "do not
disturb" in the Focus section of settingâs.
Ken and Cearbhall had a long session on Thursday night trying to persuade
Windows Live Mail that Kenâs password was valid. Ken called up Google under
âBe My Eyesâ but found that they could only deal with his GMail problem.
Google helped to confirm that Ken's password was actually correct and proved
this by accessing the Mail function in Google.com. First of all, Ken wished to
use his Internet Explorer but this would not let him access the Google online
service. Ken then switched to Firefox and found that the online service is
available by using Firefox. Next, he called up Microsoft in âBe my Eyesâ to
find that Windows live Mail and Internet Explorer are both unsupported by
Microsoft in these days. The assistant could not attempt to give any
instructions because of this but did his best to suggest possible alternatives
that Ken could try. Ken needed to send the notification of the Cork meeting as
a matter of urgency and we tried doing so through Google's online Mail service.
This worked very well and the job was done.
Cearbhall followed up on the use of the Mail app on Google.com and found a very
useful podcast from freedom Scientific giving exactly the right instructions
for the
use of this feature with the JAWS screen reader. Here is a link to the podcast:
https://doccenter.freedomscientific.com/doccenter/archives/2021_03_18_JAWS_and_Gmail_Standard_View/Using_JAWS_with_Gmail_in_Standard_View.mp4
Martha remarked that she has switched to Office 365 to avoid these
difficulties. For â¬7 per month or â¬67 per annum, you get full access to
Outlook, Word Excel, etc.
Clare enjoyed the information reported to her by the Apple Watch throughout her
recent run in the Dublin Mini Marathon.
Cearbhall reported on his experience with Sound Scape compared with Blind
Square on the iPhone 7SE2. He found that Soundscape suited his needs best. It
reported each junction ahead when the intersection was approximately 15 strides
away. It also reported the distance from a selected marker which he had set on
his home. The app indicated unknown side lanes as "Service Road" and indicated
whether they were on the left or the right. Known streets were given their full
names. Switching to Blindsquare, and limiting it to report "Streets Only" he
found the guidance much too verbose. A disturbing feature was that Blindsquare
reported the nearest crossing even if it was behind him as he was moving away
from it. The app gives more detail than at more frequent intervals than
necessary.
It is possible that Blindsquare can be more finely adjusted and so it must be
noted that this is not a critical review and is a report of a single experience.
Paul is also enthusiastic about Soundscape and suggested that the accuracy goes
down if used offline as a means of saving data usage.
During the week, Dominique, ken, Jackie and others tried, unsuccessfully, to
connect Dominique's iPhone to the NCBI Smart hub on Alexa. So far, FB-Exchange
members have dedicated some 20 hours to this exercise without success in all
but 1 case. It is believed that users should complete their registration on the
NCBI Smart Hub online first. They should then find the "My NCBI" app on Alexa
and simply sign in rather than go near setup. However, the instructions issued
by NCBI direct the user to register in the iPhone Alexa app and there is now
total confusion for all! In all unsuccessful cases, the NCBI Smart Hub team
have personally corrected the fault and completed the registration and linkage
to Alexa. Nobody has yet explained why this is happening or precisely what
procedure can be followed without intervention by NCVI staff.
Joanne's Alexa has not yet been able to locate NCBI or My NCBI in the Alexa app
library.
The meeting ended.
All the best,
Cearbhall
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