Category: Cell Phone Talk
Hi. Firstly, I’d like to thank everyone for helping me out with the question in my previous thread about clearing out the text log. This time my question has to do with using blutooth and/or the speaker when I’m on the phone. When I try to use blutooth or even just want to talk using the speaker, voiceover keeps on reading out a call timer, which interferes with what I’m trying to hear. Does anyone know how to turn off the call timer so that I can actually hear a phone call through blutooth or the speaker?
I’m trying to find stuff in the manual, but I’m not sure if this is the best one available or not…
http://help.apple.com/iphone/5/voiceover/en/
Thanks in advance again.
It's a really simple fix for this, just tap someware else on the screen. it's not a timer for say that you're seeing but voiceover is designed to give updates on stuff that changes, call durations, percentage bars, that kind of thing. all you need do is flick off the elapsed time and you'll be set.
Also what I do is turn speech off, tap twice with 3 fingers at the same time. Just, after you end your call, do a 3 finger double tap again.
Yes the three fingers is good. I use the home button to turn speech off. The same press it 3 times, speech off, press it again 3 times, speech on.
I also use Rat's method mostly when using a headset or something. Because the same thing happens, and sometimes I want my speech on, so I can look at things as I talk to someone, so just touching the screen as he says works great.
I would really advise against turning speech or voiceover off, if you need speech quickly you don't want to mess with turning it back on, and disabling voiceover brings back the normal type of touch access, bump the screen and who knows what could happen.
Mine goes on and off smoothly. I've never had any issues with it.
When my sighted friend uses my phone, or I don't want it to speak alerts, I just turn it off.
didn't say you couldn't make it smooth to turn off voiceover, but while it is off the default gestures are back. those are useless to us, as just tapping anyware activates the option, so say you take the phone away from your face to go to speaker and brush the end button by mistake. The phone will hang up instantly as it thinks you can see the screen.
Well, I personally don't have that issue, voice off. I do have to turn it back on if I am not using a headset to hang up, but other then that, it works smoothly for me.
I've even turned it on during a conversation to look at something, then turned it back off.
Agreed with 8. I typically just double tap with three fingers, and the moment I'm done repeat and I'm back talking. I do this all the time especially when in studio and I need VO to stay quiet.