hello I am in communication with one of the folks at the company I made him aware of the problems as far as a demo I just emailed him told him I was a blind mac user and used voice over he emailed me a coupon fore a trial and I got the sarah voice let me know if you want his email ----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 3:33 PM Subject: Re: uninstalling cereproc and openoffice
> > Hi Anouk, > > You asked: > >> >> Hello, Until now most programs I seem to be able to deinstall by >> just deleting the .app files but openoffice and cereproc (the >> voices) which I both dont use seem to bemore difficult. I think i >> can deactivate voices in the system pref/speech menu but then they >> are still not deleted I think. > > I googled "uninstalling cereproc voices" and got their FAQ page, with > these instructions: > > CereProc voices installed on Macs can be uninstalled by going to > System Preferences/CereProc Voices, clicking the voice to uninstall > and then clicking the Uninstall button. > > I probably won't uninstall this voice right away -- I got the Cereproc > Heather voice, and rather like the accent. I don't think it > mispronounces words particularly, as Yuma noted. It's probably just > the Edinburgh accent. It was useful to find out that others found the > voice unstable with VoiceOver, since at one point VoiceOver stopped > speaking entirely for me (as well as some problems with performance > using the voice), and I had to restart everything. I wasn't sure > whether it was the voice or another related trial software that I'd > installed called Claroread for Mac. There were similar VoiceOver > performance issues with the Cepstral voices early on in Tiger, so the > feedback from you, Nicolai, and others will probably help. I notice > that the FAQ page also gives a link for reporting bugs in the voices: > > http://www.cereproc.com/support/support_request > > I've never had a problem with the InfoVox iVox voices. > >> Openoffice consists of a directory and I guess it registered stuff >> with os x. Does mac have a general add/remove software function like >> windows? > > In most cases simply moving the application bundle to the trash is > sufficient to uninstall the app. There may also be a small plist > (property list) file for the application in the Library/Preferences > folder for your user account, or in the system's /Library/Preferences > folder, that keeps track of the preferences you've set up. The few > apps that actually need uninstallers will come with uninstallers. > > Again, googling about uninstalling Open Office provided the > information that you can just move this to the trash: > > To uninstall applications on a Mac just drag them to trash. OO.o also > has a user profile you should delete. It is located at: > /Users/'your user name'/Library/Application Support/OpenOffice.org/2 > > HTH > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
