Recent content by BlindSurvivor

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    Okay Google verbal command not functioning

    Ever since my Samsung Galaxy S7 active received the push install of Google Assistant, my Google Now OK Google verbal command no longer functions. I can access it with the long home button push, but being blind, that does not help me very much. Even though shiny, and supposedly more advanced... I...
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    Please review some wireless running earphones

    I am more than quite pleased with my Power Beats headsets. It will hang around your neck and has both a microphone volume controls and start and the stop controls that also operate as an answer and hang up function. They sound awesome and stay out of my way. I am blind, so that is very important...
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    Are you working on a TTS-based app? I am volunteering...

    ...to beta-test your app from a blind person's point of view. Any TTS-base thapp that is designed to make a smart phone hands-free for the visually impaired, for driving safety or just for user convenience could use this unique point of view. I could bring things to your attention that you...
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    Please help a blind man

    As the title says, I am blind. I want to get back into coding. For that, I need a keyboard with good speech-to-text functionality, a way to easily copy and paste and computer function keys. I have tried all the keyboards that were specifically designed for blind people, but all of them missing...
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    Help me keep my sanity

    Hello Jim, You are 100% correct on the steps you took. I have taken them many times on many phones. I found the voice pack but in comparison to the voice I am talking about, they are terrible. Nahoku... Thank you very much for those links. Unfortunately, my screen reader cannot separate them...
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    Help me keep my sanity

    Greetings all, I am new here, and mostly a newb when it comes to Android. I am blind so I use my S7 active with text to speech and the voice assistant on. This may seem minor to most of you, but for someone like myself who uses it all day... the Stock voices are Timmy and seriously...
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    Don't laugh please...

    I guess this Blind Man's question was too busy for all of you experts... I'm out here.
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    Don't laugh please...

    As my nickname suggests, I am blind. I do not have much experience with smartphones, as I have never really seen one with my own eyes. I need help! A very simple thing, but very challenging without your eyes and only a screen reader. How in the devil do you add bookmarks in the Android Chrome...