Hi, I found out the hard way that a certain multi finger tap will mute speech. I think it was a 3 finger double tap. Anyway, I think it's similar to the turn screen curtain on/off command. HTH Marsh
On Nov 3, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Erik, > > The speech muting problem is the one I was asking about a couple of > weeks ago. I haven't got a recent machine with a multi-touch trackpad, > but several people on my French list have reported this problem. I > shall pass on your solution to them as it's much better than throwing > away a preference file. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > On Nov 3, 2009, at 2:31 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > >> >> Hi guys. I'm playing around with the track pad commander and I can't >> get it to do much. >> >> One of the things I have been able to do with it though is mute >> speech . Please don't ask me how I accomplish this. I' couldn't >> begin to tell you . Fortunately I have mmy braile display here and >> so >> all is not lost. In fact, muting speech is the ideal comfort zone >> for >> me when using the braille display. >> >> The thing is, I'm not muting the speech intentionally. I'm just >> cruzing arount the screen when VO says "speech muted and stops >> talking. When I go into voice over utility and look at the mute >> check >> box it is unchecked. If I check it and then uncheck it, I still get >> no speech. If I turn voiceover off then back on I get welcome to >> voiceover and then I get speech muted and then I get no speech. If I >> make a volume adjustment using command vo up and down then speech >> comes right back, even though neither the system volume or the vo >> volume are turned down. >> >> Has any one else seen this? It's happened to me twice in the last 3 >> days. I'd like to just ditch this trackpad commander. To me it is >> starting to look like more trouble than it's worth. Unfortunately I >> might have to teach it and so I need to hang in there for a while yet >> and see if I can make it happen. >> >> Best, >> >> erik burggraaf >> A+ certified technician and user support consultant. >> Phone: 888-255-5194 >> Email: [email protected] >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
