Is there a way to sleed up Adium notifications and when people send
you messages? Because, on skype, when other people use it, their
speech is faster than mine and they always say they forgot how to do
it. I'd really love to have my adium notifications speak faster, it's
annoying at the rate it's at now. And that includes chat messages.
Also, is there a way for skype to speak incoming chats?
On Aug 27, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Doug Lee wrote:
I stumbled on this accidentally no idea who already knows it. This
applies to Mac Skype, not Windows Skype, for those on SkypeEnglish who
may be reading this.
Mac Skype allows you to modify the announcements it makes when various
things happen, like incoming calls, contacts coming online, etc. Each
one has an edit box containing the text. All these announcements tend
to come out with default parameters though, which includes a pretty
slow speech rate.If you want to change the speech rate for a specific
announcement, you can do it by prefixing the text with an embedded
command. In the following example, make sure to observe punctuation
marks:
The default announcement text for an incoming call is
You have an incoming call from "@"!
To make this speak at 300 words per minute, add [[rate 300]] to the
beginning like this:
[[rate 300]]You have an incoming call from "@"!
Note the double square brackets around the "rate 300" there.
That's all there is to it. The embedded speech commands should work
across several Mac OS versions. Technically, they are deprecated as
of Mac OS 10.5, but they still work. For anyone interested in what
else is possible, the whole command set is documented at the following
URL:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/Sound/Sound-190.html
Most Mac Skype users probably know this part, but for anyone who
doesn't, here's how to get to the text messages I'm referring to:
1. Go to the Skype menu by using VO+M and arrowing right once,
then go down to Preferences and press Enter.
2. Tab to find the Notifications button and press Space to open
that page.
3. Tab to the pop-up button of notification choices, which directly
follows the "Advanced" button.
4. Press Space to open the notification list, arrow to the one you
want, and press Enter to select it.
5. Tab a few times to the text box containing the announcement. Note
that you will also pass a check box that enables or disables the voice
announcement, along with other controls for governing how the
notification is handled visually.
6. When done making changes, close the Preferences window with
Command+W.
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