Victor and Talkback devs: so there you have a feature that I'd like to
someday see incorporated into Talkback! the two-finger double-tap to
pause playing media on our Androids!
El 12/01/2017 a las 10:02 p.m., Christopher Chaltain escribió:
Yes, I just tested this with Voice Assistant and Talk Back, and it's true. With Voice Assistant, I could start something playing in the Samsung Music app and use the two finger double tap to pause the music from any screen. When I switched to Talk Back, this didn't work. I assumed this was a Samsung thing and not a Voice Assistant specific feature, so I was surprised when it didn't work when I was running Talk Back.
On 12/01/17 21:53, Gerardo Corripio wrote:
Regarding the Voice Assistant versus Talkback topic, is it true that
with Voice Assistant, like on the competition, during playback of music,
Youtube etc., one can double-tap twice to pause, versus with Talkback
this can't be accomplished yet?
El 12/01/2017 a las 09:42 p.m., Christopher Chaltain escribió:
Talk Back supports custom actions, which is a definite advantage for
Talk Back. You have the context menus in Talk Back, so you can get to
more features and options that way. You can interact with the
developers on the Eyes-Free list and participate in the Talk Back
betas, which is another point in Talk Back's favor. Some people will
say that Talk Back is more responsive, is updated more frequently and
is part of pure Android so it was the way Google meant for you to
interact with your phone. I haven't noticed that it's more responsive
than Voice Assistant, and I can't tell how often Voice Assistant is
updated, so I don't know if Talk Back is more up to date or not. I
don't have a problem using software from companies other than Google,
so the fact that Samsung made some changes to Talk Back's source code
isn't an issue for me.
Voice Assistant uses some different gestures, so people that don't
like the angle gestures in Talk Back may prefer Voice Assistant. You
don't have the context menus in Voice Assistant, and it supports more
than two finger gestures, so you get more shortcuts to change things
like screen dimming, voice rate, ..., or check the status of things
like the time, battery charge and so on.
Right now I'm using Voice Assistant, but in general I prefer Talk Back
a bit, mostly because of the custom actions support. I'd suggest you
try each of them and decide for yourself which you prefer.
I'm not sure about the notifications, but this is how notifications
work on my S7, so there has to be a setting to accomplish this. Maybe
someone else will know which settings to tweak to accomplish this or
maybe you'll stumble across it yourself. Sorry, but I've looked
around, and I just can't remember what I might have done to set this
behavior.
You can configure the triple click of the home button to toggle any
accessibility service, including Talk Back. You can also have it
present a dialog of services to start. If you want it to just toggle
Talk Back on and off then go into Settings -> Accessibility -> Direct
Access and make sure Talk Back is the only service that's toggled on.
On 12/01/17 13:52, Matthew Chao wrote:
Hi, Folks. Can someone on this list tell me the advantages and
disadvantages of TalkBack and VoiceAssistant? I'm using a Galaxy S7.
Also, how do I get the Notifications to give me an audible, but not
bring up the screen. This is very distracting.
Finally, is there a quick way to turn TalkBack off and on so I can have
a sighted person be able to use this phone? VoiceAssistant has the
Apple-like tripple-click which I like, but saw nothing like that with
TalkBack. Thanks in advance for your info.
Matthew Chao
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