2017-03-29 23:45:37

Anyone had a chance to play around with it yet?

2017-03-29 23:48:26

yeah a little bit. narrator has improved a lot. to go into narrator mode, hit the home button twice. to scroll word by word hit the triggers

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2017-03-30 01:55:04

does it read the game menus?

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2017-03-30 06:56:00

flame_elchemist that isn't something that Xbox can patch in themselves, as games don't have anything in a former that narrator can read.

However this update does add the ability for game developers to send menu text out to narrator. So individual game developers now have the ability to choose to make their game menus spoken by narrator if they want to and can justify the cost of doing so.

So, so long as blind gamers keep asking for it, over the next year or two we should start to see some mainstream games with narrator-voiced menus.


It would be great to see game engines - Unity, Unreal, Frostbite etc - do that automatically. That way the choice/cost barrier would be reduced significantly.

2017-03-30 07:50:42

Wow. I'll update my XBox as soon as possible, and hopefully, I can now purchase games without turning Narrator off because it didn't supported my language, and stopped working then I switched to danish. smile My feedback and thoughts will come as soon as possible.

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2017-03-30 14:27:03

I don't know if the've added danish or not though.

2017-03-30 14:39:43

No word on extra languages as far as I know.  But the new update seems to work well enough, given that I've been on the preview program testing features etc for a while now.  Beam Broadcasting, once set up, is easy enough though I can't speak for the account setup from the console as I originally had an account on the site before I had access to the feature and subsequently linked my accounts together.

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2017-03-30 14:59:33

I'm also in the preview program.

Yep. Beam setup on console is still not accessible to set up.

Good thing Sightless set it up as he pointed out. I just haven't bothered since I stream on Twitch and Stream.me. Guess I'll do so just to test it out.

Otherwise, yes, Narrator feels more responsive. I love how the dashboard is more organized now.

I sent an email to a dev at NRS, but still haven't gotten a response. My next try will be to dm him on Twitter in regards to adding Narrator to Injustice 2.

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2017-03-30 17:36:55

@8
Just letting you know that I'm trying to do what I can as well with regards to getting devs to add Narrator  to I2 and other titles.  You're not alone in this endeavour, as much as you might feel like it at times.

In case you don't know, Beam works at near 0 latency and Narrator reads the chat via Narrator on Xbox One.  Curious to see what happens on Windows 10, but we'll find out when that part of the update launches on, if memory serves, April 11th.

Apparently setup is pretty simple on console though, according to a discussion I had the other day about it, you just enter your tag when prompted and Beam does the work behind the scenes to "create a temporary account that you can finish off later".   Don't think it's as temporary as that wording implies though.

Hope it works well for you though, regardless.

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2017-03-30 19:10:11

I still don't know how to finish off m account, so in the end I just went to the website and logged in with my microsoft account, which worked. It showed I had two views and 8 xp. via the site.
I did, however, encounter a strange bug. When I wanted to stop the broadcast, nothing seemed to happen. IT just said stop broadcast, without changing the window, until I restarted my console. I hope this is a temporary glitch.

2017-03-31 01:53:25 (edited by cj89 2017-03-31 01:55:52)

If there's anything at all we can do to spread the word further about things like the Narrator API or just console access in general, I'm getting back into console stuff, and I feel the importance to push this stuff just as much. I know a lot of this won't happened over night or even in the next week, but I'm Optimistic for the future. Currently downloading the new xbox update as I write this big_smile

2017-03-31 04:51:38

I didn't even get a notification or anything about the new update.

2017-03-31 05:38:14

I didn't either, I found out through twitter and stuff. If you go to settings>system/console info and updates you can update from there

2017-03-31 09:40:08

Hi.
Here are my first impressions on the new update:
First the big disappointment: Narrator doesn't support my language or region, so I can't purchase anything from the store. I haven't figured out how to do that from the website yet, since I find no way of accessing the danish store, and no way to add my credit card. So yeah, I'm still having an accessible console with demo games. Yay for that...
The positive and great surprises: Now we have a controller mode and Narrator mode. Press the XBox button twice to switch between those modes. I'm not totally sure on how exactly the Narrator mode works, but you can read more about this in the Narrator options. You can navigate the screen character by character, word by word, line by line, heading by heading etc. It's quite cool. So yeah, things has improved a lot. I even got Narrator to read the battery level on my controller which came as a big surprise for me. So the Narrator mode is worth it to try to see what information we can read.

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2017-03-31 10:46:28

@10
Hopefully now that you've linked your accounts together it should work correctly.

@14
Hope your language issue gets sorted soon.   Have you fed it back via xbox.uservoice.com?

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2017-03-31 13:04:05

How do I check controller battery life? I'll try this anyway soon as I have an idea, but I'm asking the question here so if someone else answers, there's a reference.

2017-03-31 21:12:50

Hi.
@Aaron: On the home screen I think, go into the Narrator mode and press the up arrow and there you might find it. I find this window very confusing, and sometimes it's difficult to find the battery level of the controller.
@Sightless kombat: Thanks for the link. No I haven't posted there, but I'll do that as soon as possible and hope the best.

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