Hi Dane, I haven’t really been able to measure the delay accurately. However, the 0.25 that you mention seems to be about right. Maybe it’s that I’m not used to words being missed as I arrow around quickly through a text.
I have been able to fix the issues a bit by switching to Vocalizer voices. At least, I’m not missing any text while I’m moving quickly around. What I’m not understanding is why there is a delay after the voice tones and before VO speaks; is this intentional? Is it possible to turn it off? Thanks.On Oct 25, 2013, at 3:57 PM, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: > Your observations are quite interesting. > > I have observed a slight delay between the time a key is pressed and the time > Voiceover responds but its nowhere near 0.5 seconds, about 0.25 seconds would > be far more accurate in my case. > > I'm using an iMac Quad Core I5 machine but I'm not using any of the built-in > voices that come with Voiceover, I'm using Peter Infovox. > > I have a Mac Mini 2 Dio Core 1.66GHZ machine in the lounge using Kare - high > quality voice -, on that machine Voiceover is behaving as expected and I > haven't seen any sluggishness or delays whatever and that does surprise me > when I think it over now, if any such problems were to occur or make > themselves heard then surely the Mac Mini machine I have would be it given > its an older technology, the display doesn't quite match the machine more > than likely and so on. > > Anyway, point being there's a little delay but its not enough to cause any > major issues here. > > > On 25 Oct 2013, at 10:05 pm, Parham Doustdar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I had spoken to a friend regarding the sluggishness I’m experiencing with my >> Mac Mini, even though its processor is core I7 and it has 4 GB of DDR3 ram. >> He had guessed that it may be related to the lack of displays. However, >> right now I’m finding that it is, in fact, not. >> >> Yesterday when listening to the mac basics podcasts on AppleVis, I thought I >> could hear the same delay in that user’s VO as well; there is about a 0.5 >> seconds delay before VO responds to a key press. I’ve experimented with this >> and I’m guessing the issue is not VO’s fault but Alex’s; VO plays the voice >> tones instantly but it takes a while for the speech to come in. >> >> Do any of you have this issue? If so and if my analysis is right, what voice >> do you use? 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