At least in my case, choppy doesn't mean the speech is stuttered or anything like that. The reading is just sort of broken up a bit with funny pauses that causes the reading to flow less smoothly. This only occurs when reading an actual email message. It is happening on both my mini and MBP.
Brett On Aug 30, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > > Well Fonzie, seems you have enough ram and horsepower, so that is not > your issue. I still have not encountered this problem, but I have > encountered certain times when apps become busy with no reason that I > can determine. I suspect there are some bumps to be worked out > despite all the testing that has been done. > > On Aug 30, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Fonzie wrote: > >> >> Hi there Scott, how are youd oing? >> >> Sorry for the late reply. >> >> I noticed that Mail added all my AIM iMap folders upon installing >> Snow >> Leopard, and I just saw them just now. >> >> I was only used to seeing "Inbox", and now it shows all my folders >> associated with AIM Mail, like Spam, and such. >> >> A lot of the message from the list went into the Spam folder, so I am >> fixing that just now. >> >> As for what kind of mac I have. >> >> I bought my mac in August of 2008 >> >> So I have the folllowing: >> >> iMac Core 2 Duo 2.66GHZ >> 4G Ram >> ATI HD2600 Pro >> >> If there is anything else, let me know. >> >> Again, I apologize for the delayed response. >> >> Take care >> >> Fonzie >> >> >> On Aug 30, 2009, at 4:57 AM, Scott Howell wrote: >> >>> >>> Fonzie, what type of Mac do you have? I'm not encountering this >>> issue, >>> but I am looking to see if there is any patterns perhaps. Did you >>> do >>> a clean install or upgrade? >>> On Aug 29, 2009, at 9:28 PM, Fonzie wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I second the no issue with choppy reading area. >>>> >>>> The sub menu thing? >>>> >>>> I have seen that happen once or twice. >>>> >>>> I mainly see it when I pull up the main menu bar though, where >>>> apple >>>> and program related menus are located. What seems to happen is, >>>> VoiceOver will stop speaking here and there, and only when >>>> scrolling. >>>> This only happens if I go into the menu bar, pull down any menu of >>>> my >>>> choosing, and read it's contents. Then, I leave the menu bar, and >>>> immediately pull it up once more, and pull down a menu of my >>>> choosing, >>>> VoiceOver begins the small silence issue, even when scrolling >>>> through >>>> the menu items. >>>> >>>> For now, I just solve this by doing the following. ONce I attempt >>>> to >>>> go into the menu bar the second time, I wait a couple of seconds, >>>> and >>>> pull down the menu of my choice. Either that, or I pull down the >>>> menu >>>> I want, and then wait a couple of seconds, and start scrolling >>>> afterwards. >>>> >>>> Take care. >>>> >>>> Fonzie >>>> On Aug 29, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Scott Howell wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Funny, I'm having no issues with submenus in Mail or any other >>>>> app I >>>>> have used so far. There seems to be some slightly roughness to >>>>> the >>>>> reading, but not sure what the cause is and I noticed it only as a >>>>> slight thing, but of course level of annoyance is subjective for >>>>> sure. >>>>> >>>>> On Aug 29, 2009, at 6:08 PM, Brett Campbell wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Yes, I'm glad you mentioned this. The mail is read choppy. Alex >>>>>> reads smooth as ever in Safari. I currently only have my rate at >>>>>> 50, >>>>>> so I don't think rate is causing it. I'm also having no luck >>>>>> getting >>>>>> sub menus to work, Such as when I try to move a message to >>>>>> another >>>>>> box. >>>>>> >>>>>> Brett >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Aug 29, 2009, at 10:50 AM, John J Herzog wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>>> I'm liking the snow leopard update so far, but I'm running into >>>>>>> an >>>>>>> annoyance with mail. Since the update, I noticed that voiceover >>>>>>> reads >>>>>>> messages much more choppy than before. Specifically, it pauses >>>>>>> too >>>>>>> long when it encounters a new line in the middle of text. Is >>>>>>> there >>>>>>> an >>>>>>> option to have voiceover keep speaking normally as if that new >>>>>>> line >>>>>>> did not occur in the middle of a sentence? >>>>>>> Thanks for your help, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> John >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
