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Setting Up VoiceOver

Important: VoiceOver changes the gestures used to control iPod touch. Once VoiceOver is turned on, you have to use VoiceOver gestures to operate iPod touch— even to turn VoiceOver off again to resume standard operation.

The tasks in this section describe how to change VoiceOver settings when VoiceOver is turned off. To learn how to select items, tap, adjust sliders, and perform other actions when VoiceOver is turned on, see “Using VoiceOver” on page 195.

Turn VoiceOver on or off: In Settings, choose General > Accessibility > VoiceOver and tap the VoiceOver On/Off switch.

You can also set Triple-click Home to turn VoiceOver on or off. See “Triple-click Home” on page 203.

Note: You cannot use VoiceOver and Zoom at the same time.

Turn spoken hints on or off: In Settings, choose General > Accessibility > VoiceOver, and tap the Speak Hints On/Off switch. When Speak Hints is turned on, VoiceOver may tell you the action of the item or provide instructions for you—for example, “double- tap to open.” Speak Hints is turned on by default.

Set the VoiceOver speaking rate: In Settings, choose General > Accessibility > VoiceOver, and adjust the Speaking Rate slider.

You can choose what kind of feedback you get when you type. You can set VoiceOver to speak characters, words, both, or nothing. If you choose to hear both characters and words, VoiceOver speaks each character as you type it, then speaks the whole word when you finish it by entering a space or punctuation.

Choose typing feedback: In Settings, choose General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Typing Feedback, then choose Characters, Words, Characters and Words, or Nothing.

Use phonetics	In Settings, choose General > Accessibility > VoiceOver, then
	tap the Use Phonetics switch to turn it on.
	Use this feature when you type or read character-by-character,
	to help make clear which characters were spoken. When Use
	Phonetics is turned on, Voiceover first speaks the character,
	then speaks a word beginning with the character. For
	example, if you type the character “f,” VoiceOver speaks “f,” and
	then a moment later, “foxtrot.”
Use pitch change	In Settings, choose General > Accessibility > VoiceOver, then
	tap the Use Pitch Change switch to turn it on.
	VoiceOver uses a higher pitch when entering a letter, and
	a lower pitch when deleting a letter. VoiceOver also uses a
	higher pitch when speaking the first item of a group (such as
	a list or table) and a lower pitch when speaking the last item
	of a group.

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