blindGram 15.1 Beta 3: read Telegram messages word by word
blindGram 15.1 Beta 3 lets a screen reader read a message by character, word or paragraph, keeps the keyboard down until you ask, and fixes the first-call busy tone.
Beta 3 was posted in the beta channel on September 4, 2026, on Telegram 12.10.1. Unlike Beta 2, it comes with a long list of changes, and most of them are about how a message sounds and how you move through it with TalkBack or another Android screen reader.
Reading a message piece by piece
- A message can be read by character, word or paragraph with your screen reader's own reading control, instead of the whole message in one breath.
- Your screen reader's long-press gesture now opens the message menu, on ordinary messages and on service messages.
- A playing voice message no longer turns the message itself into a slider. While something plays, the playback position is its own stop beside the message, and it says the position in words. The row behind it is Voice message slider accessibility under Media.
- An empty chat is no longer one unlabeled stop covering the whole screen.
- In a channel, the pinned message bar is read after the last message instead of beside the chat title.
- The Update Reactions button in channel and group settings keeps its label after you change a reaction, as does every button of that kind in the app.
- A community's Search and Settings buttons are named, and the decorative avatar and gradient behind them are skipped.
Keyboard and message box options
- Don't open the keyboard automatically, under General, keeps the keyboard down when you reply, edit, open a search box or open a sheet. Tapping the text field, or a control that asks for the keyboard, still opens it. #
- Four new switches under General remove controls you may never use: Hide the emoji, stickers, and GIFs button, Hide the send notifications button, Hide the attach media button, and Hide the mute button in channels. All of them are described in the General settings guide.
- Every blindGram Area screen now has a Help button in its header. It opens that screen's documentation in Persian or English, according to your phone number.
Calls and the audio player
- The first incoming call after the app has been in the background is no longer answered into a busy tone, and one missed call no longer makes every later call busy until you restart the app.
- The audio player is shown above a channel's live stream banner, so pause, seek, speed, elapsed time and close stay reachable while music or a round video plays.
- Download and upload percentages are no longer read over playing music, and only for the item you are standing on.
Channels, topics and forwarding
- At the end of a channel or topic, a forward flick moves to the next unread one and says its name, instead of bouncing back with a tick and a vibration. When nothing is left, it says so.
- Reaching the end of a long forum topic list no longer hangs the screen reader.
- Forwarding to a topic keeps every other chat you selected, and an unedited forward keeps albums and videos intact.
- Dictation no longer overwrites what is already written, and the caption is kept when you forward a photo or video with Advanced Forward.
Crash fixes
Eleven reported crashes are fixed, including restoring a settings backup, creating a poll while scrolling, spoiler effects, dictation, and removing a forward or reply from the send preview, along with other reported bugs.
This is a beta. The APK is in the @blindGram_BETA2 channel, and if you would rather wait for the final, blindGram 15.0 is the current stable release.