Speech display is designed to wait for other applications to finish speaking, however, the problem with this is several fold. Lion introduced sandboxing, we can't know when a sandboxed application is speaking, so TextEdit and any other app which is sandboxed we will speak over. Second, the method we were using for queuing notifications was sitting there spinning and waiting for other applications (ourselves included) to finish speaking, and eating CPU.
1.4 changes this, and we will no longer wait for other applications to finish speaking, since it was causing CPU usage issues, as well as not being uniform across all applications. We hope to improve this in the future, and we are looking at ways of improving it. 2.0 will bring with it the ability to use different voices for different notifications/applications, and possibly other improvements (speech rate, and possibly key bindings I believe have been requested) if time allows. I do not have experience with voice over, it is possible that voiceover never truly "finishes speaking" to satisfy the speech display's test, and it causes it to sit there waiting. 1.4 is in beta, and we are working to find the last couple of bugs in networking before releasing it. On Mar 21, 10:49 am, Elena Brescacin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > as I am totally blind, I use mac osx with its integrated screen > reader. Voiceover. > Installing growl (last october i had the free version) I was extremely > impressed by its speech capability, the possibility to make all my > notifications talk without performing any screen reader action. > But... but it never worked! I thought it was a matter of > compatibility, Growl not working with osx lion as it was older. Then I > bought the one coming from the app store, now I am running latest > version; but, the problem persists! > My last attempt was to turn voiceover off, pressing the normal hotkey > command+f5, and... that's it! growl started to make me crazy with > spoken notifications! It spoke all events incoming from a hour before! > So, there were about one hundred contacts coming on and off line, chat > messages, musicality notifications > the only way to read chats from skype or adium(another third-party > application) was to write a message, turn voiceover off, and then wait > for the answer! > This gives no comfort, as it would mean me to spend all my time on the > chat window as, without voiceover, I cannot do anything! The trouble > is, some other blind users I asked, Growl and voiceover work perfectly > together! > May it have inherited problems from the oldest free growl version? I > thought it was impossible as I uninstalled old growl with its proper > script, downloaded from growl's web site; it inherited preferences, I > am sure as they were as before, with new growl. But maybe it took > problems too! > Now I'd like to empty it, to uninstall growl completely. preferences, > database, and so on > I turned it off from settings, rebooted system and the problem > persists. Before thinking the trouble is outside of growl, I'd like to > remove Growl completely! > I just read the documentation on how to delete files manually, I'll > try it up; do you suggest me this too, then reinstall growl itself > from app store? I am not afraid to pay again, as it says "install" and > not buy, so, no fear. I'd like to understand why to other blind people > it works, to me it doesn't! > thanks for help! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
