Hello James, On Sep 12, 2009, at 7:25 PM, James & Nash wrote: > > Is there no way of disabling the system voice and just use VO? This can be done but it would be a very bad idea since you would no longer get the system alerts, and the Speak Selected Text command wouldn't work either.
> Also, where > would the crash logs be stored please? There are two levels of crash logs: one in your Home folder and the other at root level. In each case, you open either your Home folder or your HD, then go to Library, then Logs. In Logs, you'll find Crash Reporter. If all else fails, you can open the Console utility and hunt through that. > Would you recommend upgrading to Snow > Leopard? Without a doubt! There are minor irritations with it, but on the whole, it's much more flexible. For instance, you can now set a hot key to switch between DOM and Groups mode on the fly. There's Quick Nav which allows you to operate your Mac one-handed. There's the ability to switch voices on the fly which I use constantly to switch between French and English. I used to have to use VisioVoice to read my messages in French, but now I just use VO-Command-Down Arrow and Margaux starts reading. Then I repeat the command and Fred is back. There's lots more but I think these are things you'll use a lot. Cheers, Anne > From: "Anne Robertson" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 6:21 PM > Subject: Re: speech cutting out > > >> >> Hello Anna, >> >> I've noticed this problem, too, since doing the update to 10.6.1. For >> me, it seems to be completely random. I'll have a look at the crash >> logs and see what's going on. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >> On Sep 12, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Sometimes if I use one of the built-in Keyboard Commander commands, >>> such as Option-T to read the time or Option-U to read the number of >>> unread messages, VO stops talking for up to 30 seconds afterward. >>> The >>> VO sounds are still there, so I know my sound card is still engaged >>> and VO is running, but there's no speech. Going to the dock seems to >>> help, but only after I try the command a few times. So maybe it's >>> simply that the problem fixes itself at about the time I go there. >>> The >>> same thing happened today when I switched my computer's output from >>> the default Headphones setting to a USB headset and when a Syrynx >>> New >>> Tweet sound played just as an e-mail message began to read. I'm >>> running the latest version of Snow Leopard. Has anyone else >>> experienced this? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Anna >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
