Hello Mike, If you have access to another Mac, you should download Mavericks to that one without installing it, then make a bootable USB key with which to reinstall Mavericks on your own machine.
When you get Mavericks installed cleanly on your machine, do not copy over the Infovox iVox voices. Wait until you've got everything else sorted out then redownload the Infovox iVox voice manager and get the latest versions of the voices. You can download the Mac voices for German from VoiceOver Utility under Speech. Click the Default voice pop up button and go down to Customize and press Return. You'll find a table with all the available voices. Just check the ones you want and download them. Cheers, Anne On 9 Apr 2014, at 10:02, Mike Busboom <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Anne, > > Sorry for not getting back to you in a more expeditious manner. VoiceOver is > barely working, but as a very helpful friend on this list has encouraged me > to do, I will try to remain relaxed and focused. > > The German voices I have are from Infovox. I never used the German VoiceOver > voices. how would I get them, and what do I need to do to get the Infovox > voices to "speak" German again? > > Secondly and unfortunately, I just installed the upgrade over what I was > previously, which was Mountain Lion. I can't repair permissions because I > get no response from VO when I click on a lot of the buttons, even when they > are the default selection. I may just bring my Mac to the Apple store, along > with my Time Machine Capsule. > > It took me a very long time to even write this simple note, because VO > frequently just stops talking for several minutes at a time. However, > stopping, and then re-starting VO works some of the time, when VO isn't > turning itself off while I write. It's odd. Sometimes when I am writing, > the Mac suddenly says: "VoiceOver off." I have a feeling that the problems > will go away, once permissions have been repaired. > > Kindest regards, and please excuse the typos and mistakes! > > Mike > On 7,Apr,2014, at 15:41, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Mike, >> >> First of all, are you using the German voices provided by Apple or the >> Infovox iVox voices? >> >> How did you do your upgrade. Did you do a clean install and import your data >> from a Time Machine back up or did you just install Mavericks on top of >> Mountain Lion? >> >> I think there's a lot to be said for doing a clean install and importing >> your data from a back up and of course, you need to repair permissions after >> that. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >> On 7 Apr 2014, at 15:09, Mike Busboom <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello Everyone, >>> >>> I just upgraded to Mavericks and I am experiencing some of the same things >>> that others have encountered and mentioned on the list. VoiceOver is very >>> choppy, and I really hope that this problem doesn't stick with me forever. >>> >>> I am having another problem, however, where I could use some insight. I am >>> unable to switch between German and English though when I cycle through the >>> voice options using the Control-Option-Command combination, along with the >>> arrow keys, the German voices are there. However, when their names are >>> announced, they are done so using Alex and his American pronunciation. I >>> am unable to get my Mac to speak German with the proper German >>> pronunciation. >>> >>> Does anyone have any ideas about how to address this issue? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
