Thanks cearbhall for the notes
Regards
Stuart
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On 11 Jun 2022, at 17:38, Cearbhall O'Meadhra <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
participants:9
The meeting opened with a discussion of the demonstration of Apple’s 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 setting’s.
Ken and Cearbhall had a long session on Thursday night trying to persuade
Windows Live Mail that Ken’s password was valid. Ken called up Google under
“Be My Eyes” 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 “Be my
Eyes” 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 €7 per month or €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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