Hello Shawn, The French voice I use is one of the standard voices from Apple, called Thomas. I have no Acapela voices on my Mac.
Cheers, Anne > On 15 Feb 2016, at 21:45, BBS <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Hi Anne. Are these French voices you have made by Acapela? I’m about to write > a report to Assistiveware about this because the voice I was using when the > hacker attacked the list was an Acapela voice and my Mac was unusable when it > encountered the message. > Stacy, what happened was somebody typed in the letters E and R in a single > word. He did this for the entire email and that’s how Voiceover crashed. > > > Shawn > Sent from my White MacBook > Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs > Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk > Skype Username: bbstheblindrapper > Facetime Username: bbssh...@icloud.com <mailto:bbssh...@icloud.com> > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson > Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 8:30 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Re: To The List About The Recent Spam > > Hello George, > > First of all, the command to open the VO utility is VO-F8. Then, it is not > only the Alex voice that is affected. I do not have Alex on my Mac! I use > Fred and quite a few other voices in Various languages. Switching to a French > voice did not work for me. I had to do a restart to get speech back. > Cheers, > > Anne > > >> On 15 Feb 2016, at 15:25, Basioli George <gbma...@gmail.com >> <mailto:gbma...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> do the following >> >> command f8 to open the voice over utilities >> in the table inter act and arrow down to speech and stop interactting >> v o right errow to the defalt voice pup up menu and it will read alix since >> this is your defalt set voice >> v o spacebar on this and arrow down to a new voice and do v o spacebar and >> the defalt voice will change and it will speak in the new choice >> >> close the voice over utility >> >> how’s that >>> On Feb 15, 2016, at 6:21 AM, Caitlyn F <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi how do you fix this problem doesn't only affect the Alex screenreader my >>> mac is completely useless right now and all I have to work with is my >>> iPhone thanks a lot Caitlyn >>> >>> Sent from Caitlyn's I phone >>> >>> On Feb 15, 2016, at 9:11 AM, Andrew <ioani...@me.com >>> <mailto:ioani...@me.com>> wrote: >>> >>>> y screen reader stopped talking and I had to force shut the ocmputer. >>>> Yes, we are grateful for helping us with this unacdceptale action. >>>> Andrews problem. >>>> >>>> On Monday, February 15, 2016 at 4:05:24 AM UTC, Chris Gilland wrote: >>>> Mark, >>>> >>>> Don't beat yourself up over this. >>>> >>>> You're doing the best you can, and that is all anyone ever could ask of >>>> you. >>>> >>>> On behalf of the whole list, we thank you very very greatly for all you're >>>> doing! >>>> >>>> Chris. >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "M. Taylor" <mk...@ <>ucla.edu <http://ucla.edu/>> >>>> To: <macvisi...@ <>googlegroups.com <http://googlegroups.com/>> >>>> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 10:55 PM >>>> Subject: To The List About The Recent Spam >>>> >>>> >>>> > Hello Everyone, >>>> > >>>> > I became aware of the offensive emails and the deliberate string to shut >>>> > down the Alex screen reader this morning. >>>> > >>>> > At that time, I looked at the email address of the sender and recognized >>>> > it >>>> > as one that I had just banned, last night, from the V iPhone list, for >>>> > posting offensive language. >>>> > >>>> > For whatever reason, when I attempted to locate her/his address in the >>>> > members list of this group, I could not find it. Yet, the posts >>>> > continued >>>> > to come to the list. >>>> > >>>> > I was away from my computer for most of the day but, upon returning home >>>> > about an hour or so ago, I managed to locate the user and first, change >>>> > his/her posting privileges and then remove him from the list. >>>> > >>>> > To be quite honest, the account I located was unlike any I've seen in >>>> > any >>>> > groups. So, it is possible, more messages will come through but I think >>>> > I >>>> > located the right address. Only time will tell. >>>> > >>>> > Please know that I, on behalf of Cara, am paying close attention and am >>>> > doing all I can to rid the list of such nuisances. >>>> > >>>> > For the record, the malicious string shut down my speech synthesizer, as >>>> > well. Very, very annoying. Like others in this groups, I had to use my >>>> > Windows computer with a non-mac screen reader to discover the source of >>>> > the >>>> > problem. >>>> > >>>> > Please know that we are in this together and, together, we'll get >>>> > through >>>> > it. >>>> > >>>> > Mark >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > The following information is important for all members of the Mac >>>> > Visionaries list. >>>> > >>>> > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or >>>> > if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the >>>> > owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >>>> > >>>> > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is >>>> > Cara >>>> > Quinn - you can reach Cara at cara...@ <>caraquinn.com >>>> > <http://caraquinn.com/> >>>> > >>>> > The archives for this list can be searched at: >>>> > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ >>>> > <http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/> >>>> > --- >>>> > 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 macvisionarie...@ <>googlegroups.com >>>> > <http://googlegroups.com/>. >>>> > To post to this group, send email to macvisi...@ <>googlegroups.com >>>> > <http://googlegroups.com/>. >>>> > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >>>> > <https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >>>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >>>> > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >>>> Visionaries list. >>>> >>>> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or >>>> if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the >>>> owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >>>> >>>> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara >>>> Quinn - 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