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  • Open Per Voice Settings
  • Text Detection
  • Point and Speak
  • Sound Curtain
  • Fast long-press speed option
  • Siri (Voices sound natural and expressive)
  • Listen to Page
  • React with your Hands in FaceTime
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  • Audio Transcription in Messages




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What's New in iOS 18 for Accessibility

In this episode, Thomas Domville gives us an overview of new accessibility features for blind, DeafBlind, and visually impaired users in iOS 18. Topics covered include:

  • Live Recognition Comes to the Rotor
  • Voices Rotor
  • Improvements to Audio Ducking
  • VoiceOver Tutorial
  • VoiceOver Startup Haptic Feedback
  • Delay Before Selection
  • New languages for Lithuanian and Kazak
  • Using Personal Voice with VoiceOver
  • Equalizer and Other New Customization Options for VoiceOver Voices
  • Voice Presets for Siri Voices
  • A New VoiceOver Gesture for Accessing Siri Text Input
  • Braille Screen Input Improvements
  • Motion Queues
  • New Sound Actions
  • Assistive Touch Improvements
  • Eye Tracking
  • New Background Sounds and Controls
  • Music Haptics
  • Live Speech Improvements
  • Voice Control Improvements
  • Vocal Shortcuts
  • Hover Typing
  • Car Play Improvements: Voice Control, Color Filters, and Sound Recognition
  • Magnifier Improvements: Assign Action Button to Magnifier Mode and New Reader Mode
  • Improvements to Accessing Reader Mode in Safari

Transcript

Disclaimer: This transcript is generated by AIKO, an automated transcription service. It is not edited or formatted, and it may not accurately capture the speakers’ names, voices, or content.

An Apple Vis Original What's new in iOS 18 for accessibility?

Hello and welcome.

My name is Thomas Donville, also known as Anonymous, as like every year, a new iOS comes in play and Apple brings out new features for us to enjoy.

So with no exception, this year we got a slew of new features for voiceover users, braille users, and other accessibility features that you might find of interest.

There's a lot in here to pack, so let's go ahead and jump right into it and you can hear for yourself what is new in iOS 18 for accessibility.

Live recognition is now an option within your rotor if you include it.

To include it, you just go to your accessibility and head over to rotors and include the live recognition.

This allows you to access live recognition quickly and easily by simply going to your rotor.

Once enabled, we'll just head over to live recognition within our rotor, where you are able to select one or more of the various detections you would like to be enabled.

As you swipe down or up within the rotor, you get the various detection.

To enable a particular detection, just simply do one finger double tap, double tap again and that'll disable it.

If you dismiss the rotor and keep the detection on, it will now live in with your dynamic island towards the top of your device or you can dismiss it from there as well.

Apple has now enhanced the voice over voice option within rotors, which used to be called language.

This rotor allows you to access the various voices that you have defined within speech under accessibility, but that itself has completely been revamped, which you can find within the voice over in the accessibility.

Double tap on this now.

You now have two section in here, first is your primary voice, which can be in any language, doesn't have to be necessarily English and they can…




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Enhance Accessibility: Adding Voices to VoiceOver Rotor Voices on iOS

In this podcast, Thomas Domville reviews and demonstrates the Voices feature, which allows you to customize multiple VoiceOver voices to suit your needs. You can quickly access these voices using the Rotor Actions or the VoiceOver Quick Settings.

How to Add VoiceOver Voices to the Voices Feature on iOS

  1. Open Settings: Start by opening the Settings app with a double tap on your iOS device.
  2. Go to Accessibility: Scroll down and double tap on "Accessibility."
  3. Select VoiceOver: Under the Vision section, double tap on "VoiceOver."
  4. Tap on Speech: In the VoiceOver settings, double tap on "Speech."
  5. Add a New Voice: double Tap on "Add Rotor Voice..." to see a list of available voices.
  6. Choose a Voice: Browse through the list and select the voice you want to add. You can swipe up on a voice to hear a sample.
  7. Download the Voice: After selecting a voice, double tap "Download" to add it to your device.
  8. Set Up Rotor Actions: Go back to the VoiceOver settings and double tap on "Rotor." Ensure that "Voices" is selected so you can quickly switch between voices using the Rotor.
  9. Quick Settings Access: You can also access the new voices through the VoiceOver Quick Settings by two finger quadruple tap and selecting "Voice."

Now, you can easily switch between your customized VoiceOver voices to enhance your accessibility experience on iOS 18.

Transcript

Disclaimer: This transcript is generated by AIKO, an automated transcription service. It is not edited or formatted, and it may not accurately capture the speakers’ names, voices, or content.

Hello and welcome.

My name is Thomas Domville, also known as Anonymouse.

I'm going to be talking about a feature called Voices.

So as you know, we have our primary voice over voice that we use each and every day on our device.

Wouldn't it be great that you are able to access various voices more than just one voice over on the fly?

Yep, you can do that.

It lives right in your rotor, if that's where you would like it to be.

In my case, I have it in my rotor itself.

You can also put that in the voice over quick settings if you wish to.

And I'll be showing you how to add that to your rotor and quick setting if that's something you want to do.

But in my case, whenever I do a podcast, you probably always hear that I use Siri number 4 voice, in short is Noel.

And this is what I use when I do podcasting, but every so often I like to change things up and here's some other voice and that would be Tom and Hans.

So those are my top two voices.

And so in order to access it so quickly and easily, I place the voices in within my rotor.

So let me give you an example of what it sounds like and what it looks like.

So I'm going to access my rotor and I'm going to go to Voices.

Voices, Siri voice 4, default, selected.

So if I swipe up, Tom, primary voice.

I have the Tom primary voice.

Or if I could just swipe up again, Siri voice 4, default.

I'm back to Siri voice number 4.

So this is when I'm talking about how you are able to access voices so easily from your rotor or your quick settings, if that's what you choose to do.

So let me show you how I got that set up.

But before we can do anything, we need to add voices so you can…




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