Introducing Roger, an accessible walkie-talkie style messaging app for iOS

Ah, Ok. Might I suggest that feature mysteriously go away in the public release? Lol!

Well, I decided to wipe my phone and reinstall iOS using iTunes. WHen I install Roger, I can't sign back into the app with my e-mail address. It wants access to my phone number which I really don't want to provide. I remember successfully entering just my e-mail address when I first installed the app. How do I get my old account info back with my e-mail?

Hello all,
I would like to make a suggestion for consideration in the next Roger update. This pertains to groups. Could we have a skip message button? While in a group one could double tap a skip message button, and the next message within that group would begin to play. Hopeing you will consider this. Thank you for a great app!

I actually suggested to them not a separate button but the holding of the fast forward button as that could make more sense. Same with the fast rewind button as well.

Hi all.
For those who have been wanting to try the Amazon Alexa with roger, and can't get passed the Captcha, I may have a possible workaround. I was trying this yesterday, and it seems to wkr on all my devices, not just for linking roger to Alexa, but to sign in to Amazon as well. Enter your password wrong the first time. Yes, I know this sounds a little crazy, but it really does seem to work for me. It seems to work better if you enter your password wrong with an extra letter, or number added in, or change one or two of them, just change your password up a little. For example if your password is, "HelloAmazon123" try something like, helloamazon123," or, "HelloAmazon122." I hoep this works for everyone else like it has for me.
Now, I'm off to buy stuff from Amazon!

A few things. First, if I have voicemail set up through Roger, does this prevent me from receiving my normal voicemail on my iPhone? Next, when I dial the code *286468876437 I am told that the feature code is invalid. I tried to disable the voicemail service by dialing *38, but this doesn't seem to work either. I tried to disable the service because I was afraid I didn't do it correctly. I have emailed Yushu about this, but any help I might receive in the meantime would be appreciated. My Roger handle is https://roger talk.com/hilaryreed :-)

You need an IFTTT account. This is a service called if this then that. Moe info can be found at this link I'm not sure though if you can do all of that once you have the account, set up the recipes on the computer or if you have to set up and turn on the recipees through roger itself.

hope that helps a bit.

I'd posted asking how to remove a conversation from the main screen. A double-tap and hold revealed the answer to my question, Lol. So I've edited this in order to avoid anyone wasting time answering the question. Thanks for an awesome app!

Hi folks Wow, I am way way behind on this thread, but I have a suggestion to the Roger team about groups. Yesterday, someone added me to a Roger group, and I started receiving all these messages and I had no earthly idea what in hell was going on until I went to investigate. Can we please, please have some control wether or not someone just adds us to a group? For example, have Roger send someone an invitation to join instead of just being added automaticly? Facebook does this and I can not stand it. I like to determine wether or not I'm added to a group. That's just my thing. So if you can do something about that, that would be great! Also, how on earth would you use dropbox and twitter and all these other services with Roger? I thought Roger was only a voice chat app. Maybe I need to get up to speed on things, it has been a while since I looked at this thread like I was saying. Thanks.

I use dropbox to send myself reminders or to upload recordings to let's say, audio boom for later. It's way neat and I love it. Plus I think the integration of all of these services make the app better then all the other ptt apps I've used in the past. The app really is the swiss army knife of ptt apps. I'll have to try the voicemail thing when I'm out of the country. I'll have to modify my greeting a bit but yeah. Lol!

I clearly have a lot to learn when it comes to using Roger. The one thing at the top of my request list though, is invitations to groups. I dunno, maybe I'm old-fashioned but I like receiving an invitation to join instead of receiving a whole bunch of messages.

Hi. I was just added to a group, no invitation or anything of the sort. I looked through my messages and saw something new, it looked like a group name and the person that added me sent a message to the group. I was successfully able to leave the group by double-tapping and holding on the group name, and then a list of options became available, one of them being leave group, so I double-tapped on that one. Hope that helps.

Yeah, I was actually going to suggest an invite alert should be in that group's place so the user can say yes or no. This way they are not added with out their permission. Can this be looked into?

Thanks.

Hey there,

It's Joseph. I have a couple of suggestions for other survices. I know e already hae one from from starwarr, that's chubaka. but I wonder, what would it be like to have one from, say, scarface, lord of the rings or something similar? Could be interesting and quite ausing.

Star Wars and Lord of the rings are not services you can add, they are movies and in some cases, books.

I would also like a way to receive an invite to a group, and have the option to accept or decline it. One thing that bothers me the most about Facebook is that people have the ability to add you to groups without your permission. I'd prefer a setup where the system sends me a notification saying that a member has invited me to a group, and then gives me the options to accept the invitation or decline it.

I agree. I can leave the group, but yeah the invite system would be nice. We don't want a bunch of pissed off people. Lol!

Perhaps I should've been clearer. You know how you can add chubaka to your roger contact list from the list of survices? I'm trying to think of other things of this type that would be amusing and useful at the same time.

Don't give them any ideas. They might just do it. I know i would. I'd also like to see one that spouts quotes from random movies after you send a message to it. That'd be cool.

Lol! I think we're having a bit too much fun here, but you never know eh? I'm just impressed by the app over all. Now let's see what else they have in store for us shall we?

Blessings all.

Inded. I use both this one and whatsapp, and used to use haytell for a bit, that and voxer, but this beats them all. Even talko. wish that wouldn't have shut down though.

Agreed. And now that I have some of my sighted friends using roger it works well, very very well. It appears though that the invite to a group is broken right now. You click for example twitter and it kicks you back to the app. Hope this gets fixed, or at least, looked into.

I really wish I had more luck convincing my sighted friends and family to try Roger. Most of them don't seem interested.

Just show them how good it sounds. My family and I used it to communicate when it's time for me to cook dinner, or when dinner is ready. Lol! It's grate.

If there's one thing I wish you could do, it would be to listen to not only the mesages you receive from others, but your own messages as well. Would certainly help if you need to restart a convo, but can't remember where you left off.

Not everyone, myself included, loves hearing thir voice, so for me I'd still say make it a toggle. I'd personally leave it off. However that's just me.

Blessings and happy Sunday

Being able to hear your own messages was one of my very first requests to the Roger team. As far as the idea of sighted friends enjoying this app, unfortunately that's not likely. Thanks to Facebook and other social networks, faces have become more important than voices, at least in my experience. Since a vast majority of us who use the app are blind, it just makes more sense to use an app such as this. The sound quality is unreal, but that doesn't seem to matter. Also, think about FaceTime calls. When you can see the person you're talking to, why go back to the old way of just hearing someone? Sure, people still make phone calls, but they don't want to have to wait for a message to come back to them, whereas for us this isn't an issue since we've made use of these walky-talky style apps for a while now. Remember, these are only my ideas about how sighted folks may feel about apps like this, these aren't my opinions at all. I absolutely love Roger and will continue to use it.

I finally got it yesterday. I deleted Whatsapp, Zello and Heytell because this app is so easy to use.
And as others have said, the audio quality is just amazing!

Hi again,
What does chubaka do?
Echo isn't available in Australia hence, I didn't know if it would work, but I was able to successfully create an account from the Roger screen, and then add alexia; It works for me. :)
But voicemail doesn't; my provider isn't supported.

Yes, so I'm one of those rare people that don't like push notifications on any apps except for Messages.
Can I therefore, please please please request of the developpers that you stop the message coming through prompting us to turn our push notifications on for this app every time we open the app and send someone a message?

Thank you. :)

I'm not a fan of push notifications either, and I tend to disable them on most apps. So I agree with Rdfreak. When I did have notifications on, I noticed it would send 1 when I got a new message, and then another one a few minutes later reminding me I had that message. As someone who isn't a fan of lots of notifications, that got old quickly.

I also cannot get voicemail to work. I hit the copy button but it never forwarded my voicemail over to roger. Did I brake it?

I copied the number, but where do I paste it at? The instructions are ot that clear actually

Update: I dialed the number by hand after pasting it into command c, sharing it with my computer then I got this.

http://pasted.co/4969b0bb

So what did I just do? That message looks very long. Lol! Also what greeding will they get when they call my nuber? I want to be as professional as I can as I will often get business calls as well.

My sighted friends and family only seem to be interested in typing out a quick message. The consensus seems to be that they don't have the time to spend recording audio messages to people because they're either working, driving, or just around people in general where they're not in a position to record. I understand that to a point, because I only tend to use Roger when I'm on my own and have some time on my hands. I don't do voice messages when I'm out and around other people.

I do voice messages even when I'm out and about. My mom sent me some when she was driving to work today to let me know of some stuff. She loves it.