For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?
--
³Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive,
but what they conceal is vital.²
‹ Aaron Levenstein

On 1/2/2015 8:05 AM, Kurt Ullman wrote:
For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?

Check the remote and see if you can find any buttons that you
Normally don't use. One of those might be the reason it got
turned on. Beyond that if you can't find it in the instructions
try going to the menu and going through it item by item to see
if you can find the setting.

Bill

"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
...

For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?

My LG TV's remote control has a dedicated button for CAPTION,
documented in the manual. E.g. "Service 1-5 . . . is only available
for the digital broadcasting system."
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

In article , Bill Gill
wrote:

On 1/2/2015 8:05 AM, Kurt Ullman wrote:
For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?

Check the remote and see if you can find any buttons that you
Normally don't use. One of those might be the reason it got
turned on. Beyond that if you can't find it in the instructions
try going to the menu and going through it item by item to see
if you can find the setting.


Already tried both. The various sound menus don't tell me anything.
Would this be on the TV or on Infinity side?
--
€œStatistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive,
but what they conceal is vital.€�
€” Aaron Levenstein

On Friday, January 2, 2015 9:30:45 AM UTC-5, Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article , Bill Gill
wrote:

On 1/2/2015 8:05 AM, Kurt Ullman wrote:
For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?

Check the remote and see if you can find any buttons that you
Normally don't use. One of those might be the reason it got
turned on. Beyond that if you can't find it in the instructions
try going to the menu and going through it item by item to see
if you can find the setting.


Already tried both. The various sound menus don't tell me anything.
Would this be on the TV or on Infinity side?
--


IDK, but this suggests it might be on the cable box side. Not exactly what
you're talking about, but it's similar and recent:

http://articles.philly.com/2014-11-1...-cable-set-top



If the link doesn't work, just google "talking tv for blind".

On Friday, January 2, 2015 8:05:46 AM UTC-6, Kurt Ullman wrote:
For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?
--
³Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive,
but what they conceal is vital.²
€¹ Aaron Levenstein

SAP? http://myfox8.com/contact/sap-progra...blemsconcerns/

"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
...
For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?

Yeah, quit buyin' that Jap scrap, dummy.
LOL

"bob_villa" wrote in message
...
I don't know my ass from a hole in the ground.

In article ,
"Don Phillipson" wrote:

"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
...

For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?

My LG TV's remote control has a dedicated button for CAPTION,
documented in the manual. E.g. "Service 1-5 . . . is only available
for the digital broadcasting system."

Caption is off. But thanks for the attempt.
--
³Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive,
but what they conceal is vital.²
‹ Aaron Levenstein

On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 09:05:44 -0500, Kurt Ullman wrote:

For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?

Look for audio description.

On Friday, January 2, 2015 10:44:16 AM UTC-6, Col. Edmund Burke wrote:

I don't know my ass from a hole in the ground.

Most of us know that about you already.

On 1/2/15 9:05 AM, Kurt Ullman wrote:
For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?


Here is what one LG owner posted in a A/V forum.

"We have an LG 32LD490. This afternoon for no apparent reason the
voice over, disability function, audio description came on. Took a
while but worked out what to do. It comes on when volume turned down
to zero. How to stop it; go to Menu, Option, Disability Assistance,
select Hard of Hearing to "OFF", down to Audio Description and select
to "ON", ( here's the important bit) , down to Volume and set to -1,
back up to Audio Description and set to "OFF", then Exit. That'll do
it. I can't see why it has a -1 and lower but luckily I don't have a
disability. Hope it works for you."

Good Luck.........

On 1/2/2015 9:42 AM, Col. Edmund Burke wrote:
"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
...
For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?

Yeah, quit buyin' that Jap scrap, dummy.
LOL
Snakebite Love
--
Punk
--
great and Perfect machinen
'uch greater than any man
A force to be of destruction to be desireden
thirst Power to be reckoned withen

In article ,
Retired wrote:

On 1/2/15 9:05 AM, Kurt Ullman wrote:
For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?


Here is what one LG owner posted in a A/V forum.

"We have an LG 32LD490. This afternoon for no apparent reason the
voice over, disability function, audio description came on. Took a
while but worked out what to do. It comes on when volume turned down
to zero. How to stop it; go to Menu, Option, Disability Assistance,
select Hard of Hearing to "OFF", down to Audio Description and select
to "ON", ( here's the important bit) , down to Volume and set to -1,
back up to Audio Description and set to "OFF", then Exit. That'll do
it. I can't see why it has a -1 and lower but luckily I don't have a
disability. Hope it works for you."

Good Luck.........

I don't have that Disability Assistance as an option. played with the
spa or whatever that was for the spanish choice, see if that maybe did
it.
Thanks.
Kurt
--
"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive,
but what they conceal is vital."
-- Aaron Levenstein

On 1/2/2015 2:00 PM, Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article ,
Retired wrote:

On 1/2/15 9:05 AM, Kurt Ullman wrote:
For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?


Here is what one LG owner posted in a A/V forum.

"We have an LG 32LD490. This afternoon for no apparent reason the
voice over, disability function, audio description came on. Took a
while but worked out what to do. It comes on when volume turned down
to zero. How to stop it; go to Menu, Option, Disability Assistance,
select Hard of Hearing to "OFF", down to Audio Description and select
to "ON", ( here's the important bit) , down to Volume and set to -1,
back up to Audio Description and set to "OFF", then Exit. That'll do
it. I can't see why it has a -1 and lower but luckily I don't have a
disability. Hope it works for you."

Good Luck.........

I don't have that Disability Assistance as an option. played with the
spa or whatever that was for the spanish choice, see if that maybe did
it.
Thanks.
Kurt

It's SAP, I think that means Secondary Audio Program.
It's closed captioning with voice instead of text.
When my computer comes up in that mode, the initial
voice-over tells you, in generic terms, how to turn it off.
I time shift all my TV and play them thru VLC.
I noticed that some programs have SAP, some don't, some
have multiple language streams. And they shift around
in the menu sequence, so I often have to switch audio
streams when I play a different program just to get
back to English. And which language comes up and whether
it has SAP enabled seems to be random.

"mike" wrote in message
...
It's SAP, I think that means Secondary Audio Program.
It's closed captioning with voice instead of text.
When my computer comes up in that mode, the initial
voice-over tells you, in generic terms, how to turn it off.
I time shift all my TV and play them thru VLC.
I noticed that some programs have SAP, some don't, some
have multiple language streams. And they shift around
in the menu sequence, so I often have to switch audio
streams when I play a different program just to get
back to English. And which language comes up and whether
it has SAP enabled seems to be random.

My dad bought a TV years ago that had something like that. Somehow he got
it in that mode and while the screen show regular programming , the sound
was the weather chanel.



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On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 09:05:44 -0500, Kurt Ullman
wrote:

For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?

Yiou drank Wayyyyyyy too much on New Years.....
Quit drinking for a week!

If course, if your tv starts to WATCH you, and follows you around the
house, you have a REALLY BIG PROBLEM

I hate it when my TV watches me!!!! lol

---
Some years ago, there was a website that had a picture of a tv screen,
with a moving eyeball on the screen. The eye was supposed to follow you
if you moved. I'll admit, I tried it. It almost looked like it did
follow me, but I watched it for awhile and it's just random movements.
Kind of funny though. I'm not sure if I could find that website
again...

wrote in message
...
On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 08:42:49 -0800, "Col. Edmund Burke"
wrote:

"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
...
For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?

Yeah, quit buyin' that Jap scrap, dummy.
LOL

The japs haven't been in Korea since WWII


Go ta hell.

On Friday, January 2, 2015 7:26:01 PM UTC-5, mike wrote:
On 1/2/2015 2:00 PM, Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article ,
Retired wrote:

On 1/2/15 9:05 AM, Kurt Ullman wrote:
For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?


Here is what one LG owner posted in a A/V forum.

"We have an LG 32LD490. This afternoon for no apparent reason the
voice over, disability function, audio description came on. Took a
while but worked out what to do. It comes on when volume turned down
to zero. How to stop it; go to Menu, Option, Disability Assistance,
select Hard of Hearing to "OFF", down to Audio Description and select
to "ON", ( here's the important bit) , down to Volume and set to -1,
back up to Audio Description and set to "OFF", then Exit. That'll do
it. I can't see why it has a -1 and lower but luckily I don't have a
disability. Hope it works for you."

Good Luck.........

I don't have that Disability Assistance as an option. played with the
spa or whatever that was for the spanish choice, see if that maybe did
it.
Thanks.
Kurt

It's SAP, I think that means Secondary Audio Program.
It's closed captioning with voice instead of text.

That would seem to be an oxymoron of some kind.....

On 1/3/2015 6:10 AM, trader_4 wrote:

It's SAP, I think that means Secondary Audio Program.
It's closed captioning with voice instead of text.

That would seem to be an oxymoron of some kind.....

Tell that to a blind person.

On Saturday, January 3, 2015 11:42:06 AM UTC-5, mike wrote:
On 1/3/2015 6:10 AM, trader_4 wrote:

It's SAP, I think that means Secondary Audio Program.
It's closed captioning with voice instead of text.

That would seem to be an oxymoron of some kind.....

Tell that to a blind person.

Try reading. He said it's SAP, "closed captioning with voice instead of text".

First, what Kurt has isn't SAP. And SAP is voice converted to text. If
you had SAP and converted it to voice, you'd be back where you started.
Got it now?

mike wrote in :

On 1/3/2015 6:10 AM, trader_4 wrote:

It's SAP, I think that means Secondary Audio Program.
It's closed captioning with voice instead of text.

That would seem to be an oxymoron of some kind.....

Tell that to a blind person.

What, you think a blind person needs some sort of assistive technology to hear the audio
portion of a normal television broadcast?

In article ,
Doug Miller wrote:

mike wrote in :

On 1/3/2015 6:10 AM, trader_4 wrote:

It's SAP, I think that means Secondary Audio Program.
It's closed captioning with voice instead of text.

That would seem to be an oxymoron of some kind.....

Tell that to a blind person.

What, you think a blind person needs some sort of assistive technology to
hear the audio
portion of a normal television broadcast?

In this case, the vocal closed captioning does thing like (for Bones)
"Cam enters the room and approaches the autopsy table." or "Dr. Hodgins
pulls on the lever with a big grin on his face". F
--
³Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive,
but what they conceal is vital.²
‹ Aaron Levenstein

On 1/3/15 1:33 PM, Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article ,
Doug Miller wrote:

mike wrote in :

On 1/3/2015 6:10 AM, trader_4 wrote:

It's SAP, I think that means Secondary Audio Program.
It's closed captioning with voice instead of text.

That would seem to be an oxymoron of some kind.....

Tell that to a blind person.

What, you think a blind person needs some sort of assistive technology to
hear the audio
portion of a normal television broadcast?

In this case, the vocal closed captioning does thing like (for Bones)
"Cam enters the room and approaches the autopsy table." or "Dr. Hodgins
pulls on the lever with a big grin on his face". F


What Kurt seems to be hearing is called "Descriptive Video Service"

It uses the SAP channel to deliver an audio description of the video
image as an assist to blind people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_Video_Service

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_audio_program

His issue is figuring out how to turn it off.

On Saturday, January 3, 2015 1:33:58 PM UTC-5, Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article ,
Doug Miller wrote:

mike wrote in :

On 1/3/2015 6:10 AM, trader_4 wrote:

It's SAP, I think that means Secondary Audio Program.
It's closed captioning with voice instead of text.

That would seem to be an oxymoron of some kind.....

Tell that to a blind person.

What, you think a blind person needs some sort of assistive technology to
hear the audio
portion of a normal television broadcast?

In this case, the vocal closed captioning does thing like (for Bones)
"Cam enters the room and approaches the autopsy table." or "Dr. Hodgins
pulls on the lever with a big grin on his face". F
--

Did you see my post, where I referred you to the Xfinity press release?

On Saturday, January 3, 2015 12:33:58 PM UTC-6, Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article ,
Doug Miller wrote:

mike wrote in :

On 1/3/2015 6:10 AM, trader_4 wrote:

It's SAP, I think that means Secondary Audio Program.
It's closed captioning with voice instead of text.

That would seem to be an oxymoron of some kind.....

Tell that to a blind person.

What, you think a blind person needs some sort of assistive technology to
hear the audio
portion of a normal television broadcast?

In this case, the vocal closed captioning does thing like (for Bones)
"Cam enters the room and approaches the autopsy table." or "Dr. Hodgins
pulls on the lever with a big grin on his face". F
--
³Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive,
but what they conceal is vital.²
€¹ Aaron Levenstein

I think the confusion lies in terminology: captioning is text and Second Audio Program is just that, audio. And it has little (if any) to do with "speech to text" technology.

bob_villa wrote:
On Saturday, January 3, 2015 12:33:58 PM UTC-6, Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article ,
Doug Miller wrote:

mike wrote in :

On 1/3/2015 6:10 AM, trader_4 wrote:

It's SAP, I think that means Secondary Audio Program.
It's closed captioning with voice instead of text.

That would seem to be an oxymoron of some kind.....

Tell that to a blind person.

What, you think a blind person needs some sort of assistive technology to
hear the audio
portion of a normal television broadcast?

In this case, the vocal closed captioning does thing like (for Bones)
"Cam enters the room and approaches the autopsy table." or "Dr. Hodgins
pulls on the lever with a big grin on his face". F
--
³Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive,
but what they conceal is vital.²
€¹ Aaron Levenstein

I think the confusion lies in terminology: captioning is text and Second Audio Program is just that, audio. And it has little (if any) to do with "speech to text" technology.

Hi,
In my case the voice seems over riding my setting in the Motorola STB.
TV set is Panasonic HD plasma. Depending on program voice is coming
through even if CC is disabled. Only text gets always disabled.

Kurt Ullman wrote:
For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?

Hi,
When I Googled "direct vent 2 stage natural gas furnace" I got many hits.

On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 16:08:44 -0500, Retired wrote:

On 1/2/15 9:05 AM, Kurt Ullman wrote:
For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?


Here is what one LG owner posted in a A/V forum.

"We have an LG 32LD490. This afternoon for no apparent reason the
voice over, disability function, audio description came on. Took a
while but worked out what to do. It comes on when volume turned down
to zero.

This is a good idea. I'm tired of doctors' waiting rooms, tire stores,
restaurants, where the tv is on but you don't know what they're saying.
Though I think they keep the volume one notch above zero just to tease
people.

How to stop it; go to Menu, Option, Disability Assistance,
select Hard of Hearing to "OFF", down to Audio Description and select
to "ON", ( here's the important bit) , down to Volume and set to -1,
back up to Audio Description and set to "OFF", then Exit. That'll do
it. I can't see why it has a -1 and lower

Isn't that for when viewers yell at the tv?

but luckily I don't have a
disability. Hope it works for you."

Good Luck.........

On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 09:05:44 -0500, Kurt Ullman
wrote:

For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?

There was a special version of Sound of Music broadcast a couple weeks
ago. A narrator read the captions, produced by, starrring.. etc. and
also described what was happening on the screen, as if the show was for
adapted for blind people. She had a soft, distinctive, that is,
recognizeale voice.

At the same time, for the songs, it was like Mitch Miller. The lyrics
of the song came on as subtitles one line at a time, with the word being
sung in a different color. (No bouncing ball.) Obviously not for
blind people. The did hoopla in advance and I ony heard the tail end but
I think you were supposed to invite a bunch of people over and sing
along with the movie.


Is there much singing in Bones? Did the narrative describe each
incision?

On Sat, 03 Jan 2015 12:05:09 -0700, Tony Hwang wrote:

Kurt Ullman wrote:
For some reason my LG TV connected to Xfinity has started talking to me.
It is obviously some for blind people who can still here because it does
play-by-play of the shows. Last night's Bones for instance, it said Cam
enters the room and goes to the autopsy table.
Looked through the LG and couldn't find anything that looks like it
would take it away. Any suggestions?

Hi,
When I Googled "direct vent 2 stage natural gas furnace" I got many hits.

I think you replied to the wrong posting!!!