I was quite surprised but happy with the voice for the ipod 16gig 4th gen nano. and so far I have found most if not all features to be accessible.
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pierre Heim Sent: Friday, 10 April 2009 6:55 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Changing voice of login window Ok, so I'm waiting for Snow Leopard where we may find the voices of the new iPod Shuffle. The German voice sounds great. Pierre ----- Original Message ----- From: Anne <mailto:[email protected]> Robertson To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 2:53 PM Subject: Re: Changing voice of login window Hello Søren and Pierre, Yes, you're right. No one has a choice of voice at login. I tried all possibilities this morning on a computer which I set up from scratch in French and the voice was still Alex. This would change if Apple provided a basic voice in every language into which VoiceOver is localised. Cheers, Anne On Apr 9, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: This is weird. It doesn't work for me either. I think this is because the changes in VO and the changes in the System Preferences are only made for each user on the computer. When you are on the login screen, you aren't logged in to any users yet. I don't have any clue about how to change the voice on the login screen. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: [email protected] Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 08/04/2009, at 20.24, Pierre Heim wrote: Good evening folks, I understood the last post of Anne this way that the system voice you set in speech preverences is also active for the login window. In order to check if the problem is the Infovox voice I set Bruce to test this. So I restarted VO and logout/login and restarted but always the same result: Alex is still present and after login hte voices from the VO utility settings became active. Is this the correct behaviour or is something wrong here? Pierre ----- Original Message ----- From: Pierre Heim <mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 9:13 PM Subject: Re: Changing voice of login window Hi, the system voice is set to Klaus (my iPod syncs the menus with it) and the Leopard installation is with German localization. I think I will write a mail to Assistiveware the next days... Thanks so far. Greetings, Pierre ----- Original Message ----- From: Esther <mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 10:39 PM Subject: Re: Changing voice of login window Hi Scott and Pierre, I remember that with the Leopard upgrade the default voice (until you actually finished the upgrade) was Fred. I've only used the different voice options earlier with VisioVoice (in French) and Tiger, and I don't run my Leopard account with a different language localization. Tiger's support was more restrictive. I thought that you could boot up your system in Leopard starting with another voice, but I haven't tried this myself. I guess my question to Pierre would first be whether the computer was set up with a default localization in German (for the system, not just his account)? Anne would probably know whether a startup from scratch works with a voice other than Alex based on her experience with the French VoiceOver mailing list that she moderates. Other than that, David Niemeijer at Assistiveware could probably tell you whether this is possible for a German login voice. You could send a query to: [email protected] or else send a post to the Assistiveware forums. David reads this list, but a direct email will be faster. HTH On Apr 6, 2009, at 10:07 AM, Scott Howell wrote: I'm not sure you can change it. that is a problem unless Apple makes different languages a part of the VO package. Of course I could be wrong as well. On Apr 6, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Pierre Heim wrote: Hi Esther, I know this already (all voices are set to "Klaus" from the iVox package) but the problem is that these settings become only active after user login. I can activate VO for the login window but I cannot find an option to change the voice used for this window. After login everything works fine. Pierre ----- Original Message ----- From: Esther <mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 9:13 PM Subject: Re: Changing voice of login window Hello Pierre, Pierre Heim wrote: is it possible to change the voice for the login window? Alex sounds fine but not for German localization *g* To change the voice (for example, to Klaus or Sarah from the Infovox iVox German voices), bring up the VoiceOver utility with VO-F8, press 's' to select "Speech" in the table of utility categories, then tab to the pane for setting voices. You'll hear "Voices, selected tab 1 of 2". You can select and choose settings for the Voice you use for Default Voice, Content, Status, Type, Attributes, and VoiceOver menu announcements. VO-Right arrow to the pop up buttons beside each category and press (VO-Space), then use arrow keys and letters to select your voice from all the available options. VO-Right arrow to set default rate, pitch, and volume for each voice. You can do this either by typing a number between 1 and 100 in the text field or by using your up and down arrow keys on the adjusters when you VO-Right arrow past the text field inputs. You can also edit pronunciation by choosing the Pronunciation tab of the Speech options in VoiceOver Utility. Use either VO-Right Arrow from the Voices tab or item chooser menu (VO-I) and type "t a b" to navigate to the Pronunciation tab, then return. VO-Space on the tab to select it. VO-Right arrow and interact with the table for examples of text words or phrases and the substituted pronunciation. To add a pronunciation fix, stop interacting with the table and VO-Right to the "Add" button and press (VO-Space). A pronunciation dialog window will come up, with prompts for you to enter the text you wish to edit and the new pronunciation, along with the group categories/applications in which you wish this to be used. There are buttons to "play", "cancel" or "save" that will close the dialog window. When you're finished, use Command-W to close the VoiceOver Utility window. Cheers, Esther --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" 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/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
