Hi,
There was a discussion recently about the speak selected text when a
key is pressed option in the speech preferences pane versus the
"start speaking text" services menu option. Some folks had success
with the service menu and adding a keyboard short cut. While this
did work for me in some additional cases, I still got the menu item
name clobbering the actual start of the text quite frequently.
This was driving me mad to the point where the little white truck
with rubber walls was outside my house.
Unfortunately for the men in white, I think I stumbled across a great
work around that I'd like to share. This is only partially annoying
and can be scripted. Here's what you do:
1. Make sure you have either a keyboard shortcut to the services
menu or have start speaking selected text when a key is pressed
enabled.
2. Select all or whatever text you want to hear.
3. Turn voice over off with command-F5
4. Hit your hot key in step 1 that starts speaking text.
5. Turn voice over back on with command-F5.
Now here's the cool part. Even if VO is on, the start speaking text
command will not stop. VO will just play on top of it and you can
do other stuff while you listen. If you need to stop the text, hit
your hot key again.
It works like iTunes, it is as if the sound is in another channel
that VO can't clobber..
I'd love to know if this works for you too.
--Scott
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--Scott
