cheryl, what do you have your system voice set to? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Homiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 5:33 PM Subject: Firevox works with leopard and apple voices
I just installed firevox successfully and it now works with Apple voices and also infovox voices. It isn't nearly as difficult as it used to be in that there are no longer permissions to change or a .jar file to download and install or any commands to be run from terminal. a few warnings: 1. Make sure when you download that you end up with a .xpi extention file. You can't download it by using the context menu as I believe we sometimes did before; if in doubt, turn off the "open safe files" in safari prefs and you may get a .zip file which when opened will definitely show a .xpi file. 2. When downloading the xpi file, don't go down further on the web page and get the one that's for the freetts interface; you don't need it. 3. When opening the .xpi file in firefox, to avoid busy signals in the open dialog you may want to make sure you use list mode rather than browser mode. 4. I still can't definitely tell you how to do the part in firefox where you install the file; you have no voiceover help there and there is an "install now" button to hit.; I hit enter but couldn't tell if this worked. I ended up opening and closing firefox a couple of times and then suddenly realized that Ryan (my ivox voice) was saying slash slash and that it was speaking as the voice for firevox instead of the voice for voiceover. It would be nice if you could configure so that a different voice was used for firevox than for voiceover but I happened explored whether or not that's possible. Hth. Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
