Hi James, The reason for this might be that you have a spoken message triggered by the system voice coming in at the same time as you are using VO. The trick in this case will be to press the control extension key on your keyboard, and VO should be heard again.
HOpe this helps, John André On 2. des. 2009, at 23.29, James & Nash wrote: > Hi list, > > I just had a very strange experience with Voice Over. For no apparent reason, > it suddenly stopped speaking. I was forced to restart the machine as VO would > not restart itself. Just as an aside to this, I tried to reboot the system > from within Terminal and this did not work. I do not know why my > Administrative password did not trigger the shutdown, but there we are. I > also tried to do this with my standard account password and this did not work > either. I am assuming that the standard account is not in the sudoer's file > which is fine. But I am unclear as to why my Admin password did not trigger > the kill. > > Anyway, speech is back now - hence the E-Mail. Has anyone else experienced > this? Perhaps I will try repairing permissions Should I also try zapping the > PRAM? What is this and what will happen if I do this? > > Thanks > > TC > > James > > -- > > 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. > > -- 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.
