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Third-party speech synthesizers coming to macOS, iOS, and tvOS.

Forum Topic by Zachary on Saturday, August 20, 2022
… on their platforms. Known as the Speech Synthesis Provider Audio Unit, this should be coming out in the initial releases … could do it. If the espeak-ng fork is used and the Sonic audio library is included, there is no maximum limit for … for use with AV Speech Synthesizer. This is based on audio unit extensions, which were originally designed to be …

Looking at Apple's Peek Performance Event (March 2022)

Blog Post by mehgcap on Tuesday, March 8, 2022
… connectivity options, such as USB, SD cards, professional audio jack, and more. At its heart is an M1 processor. The … thing when i wish they would be a little better in the audio department with phone speakers and Mac speakers. Yes, I … the Studio would be amazing! I use Logic Pro and different audio equipment for composing and arranging music. … I think …

#Ellume Covid-19 Test, and iOS app accessibility observations

Forum Topic by DrewWeber on Friday, August 5, 2022
… as the liquid drops in. It should sound similar to the audio below. See: … announced that the test had started. Now it’s a waiting game, for 15 minutes. It seams that touching the screen, …

What would you like in the next watchOS?

Forum Topic by Siobhan on Saturday, December 10, 2022
… what I do during a workout, focus jumps to page 3, the audio playback page, even though I have nothing playing. It's …

AppleVis Extra 87: a Conversation with Sarah Herrlinger and Dean Hudson of Apple's Accessibility Team

Podcast by AppleVis on Saturday, July 16, 2022
… a certified legal transcript and is not entirely verbatim. Audio: An AppleVis original. Dave: Hello and welcome to the … that's built on it for the apps and allows you to build a game for multiple platforms. Is that the idea, but typically … We did. And we want to continue to do more, but we added audio hints because when you're trying to follow along during …

Apple's Far Out Event: iPhone 14, new AirPods, new Apple Watches

Blog Post by mehgcap on Thursday, September 8, 2022
… are other changes that, as always, up the iPhone's camera game. That's basically it, though. It sounds like iPhone 13 … Pro received an even more impressive update. They can play audio for six hours, not five, and the stems now have a … the new extra small ear tips included in the box. Spacial Audio can now be customized to your ears and head shape, …

2022 WWDC Keynote: What's Coming This Fall

Blog Post by mehgcap on Tuesday, June 7, 2022
… display, such as something showing the scores of a game or the progress of an Uber ride. This way, you won't be … camera on iPhone can now be used to customize Spatial Audio. * iPhone can now track your activity using step … it has four speakers and three microphones, with Spatial Audio support; the screen has a peak brightness of 500 nids, …

The Accessibility Bugs Introduced and Resolved in iOS 16 for Blind and Low Vision Users

Blog Post by AppleVis on Friday, September 9, 2022
… VoiceOver rotor menu item does not work on the Lock screen audio … t-value-voiceover-rotor-menu-item-does-not-work-lock-screen-audio-scrubber) Specifically, when the Now Playing widget is … Note the “Describe chart” and “Play audio graph” menu items work as expected. * [In Settings, …

Sony LinkBuds Review: The Best Headphones Yet for Full Ambient Awareness Without Compromising on Performance or Features

Hardware or Accessory Review by David Goodwin on Tuesday, February 22, 2022
… maintain full environmental awareness whilst listening to audio. Sony aren't unaware of this potential added value of … you are facing. This can then be used to improve the audio experience, making it more natural as you move around. … of decent sound and ambient awareness. These things are a game changer, and I definitely feel much less self conscious …

Issues with virtual machines on Mac

Forum Topic by Blindly unstoppable on Sunday, March 27, 2022
… wine because I don’t want to be using savvy if I’m playing audio games and I just don’t know what to do at this point I … No need to deal with virtual machines! … I’ve tried an audio game on crossover the one issue that I’m having is that when …

Accessible wrestling fantasy leagues

Forum Topic by Astute Boss Visionary on Friday, August 5, 2022
… although if you're referring to something other than a game, you might be off topic. Anyway, here is the link. … … Hello, What about an accessable game for those players/want-to-be players of BJJ? Of course, … three-time black belt--can work for practice, and audio feedback (great, fair, or needs work), can be heard. …

I am switching to mac. any suggestions?

Forum Topic by Pax on Friday, March 18, 2022
… your question. … python and vs code and some MUD’s and audio games … There are plenty of guides, tutorials, and …

So Much Sound In A Small Form Factor: My Experience with the JBL Charge 4

Hardware or Accessory Review by tunmi13 on Saturday, December 31, 2022
… lets you link several JBL speakers together to play audio simultaneously. Pressing this button and then pressing … is the play/pause button, which will play or pause the audio that is currently in progress. Now, to the back of the … really be able to tell unless you are playing a timed game, or making a song which requires precise timing, but …

thoughts on the iPhone SE third gen?

Forum Topic by Troy on Tuesday, May 24, 2022
… it through the majority of a day if I was listening to audio with the screen mostly locked. Playing games and video … that's because it only has 4 GB of RAM. Also, VoiceOver's audio ducking was getting very laggy on the 8 in more recent … is still the case on the SE3. Whatever they have done to audio ducking in recent iOS updates has made it close to …

If you could, which would you choose? Monterey, Big Sur or Catalina?

Forum Topic by Bruce Harrell on Tuesday, March 22, 2022
… or the improved performance in Catalyst-based apps, the audio graphs, Live Text in photos (which works very well … screen curtin always on unless manually turned off is a game changer for me. …

Does anyone have thoughts/help on iPhone upgrade decision?

Forum Topic by Lee on Friday, March 18, 2022
… be done with the lidar sensor and it could be absolutely game changing for us blind folks. So far it hasn’t happened, … … When it comes to the use of LiDAR,, there's not enough audio demonstrations detailing its full potential. An outside …

I Am Back on iOS. What did I miss?

Forum Topic by Matt92Machine on Sunday, June 12, 2022
… series and I have one with 512 GB. Apple has added spatial audio and enabled it for app developers. The Clubhouse app … on Android. On the iPhone though, Clubhouse uses spatial audio so listeners using headphones feel the voices are in …

Apple Discontinues the iPod after 20 Years

Forum Topic by Jim D on Tuesday, May 10, 2022
… now to discontinue. Truth is I have been wanting a digital audio player (DAP) that is accessible. I was coming to the … stripper you take home late. apple needs to get it's game together and I for one and glad it's gone. so buy one, … that will be annoying without the headphone jack. The audio needs I have aren't currenly capable of reliably being …

mac users, have you considered switching back to windows/linux?

Forum Topic by Brad on Wednesday, October 26, 2022
… manager, etc. it's just awesome. There's nothing like audio hijack on windows and I just think for what the Mac … in Windows, especially when it comes to how it handles audio and external hardware. Bottom line is I dislike things … As far as tech support being out-sourced, I think it's a game of wait-and-see if that even happens at all. Somehow I …

iOS 16 bugs

Forum Topic by JJ2j on Saturday, October 8, 2022
… feature, yet no part of the made by Google event had any audio description. I would hope that if they're going to demo … made for the blind that Android would be stepping up its game with accessibility. The cynic in me thinks that as cool … section which I'm hoping will get some decent info in non-audio format the way I prefer it takes me into Onedrive with …

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