Thanks John, I'll try this. TC James On 2 Dec 2009, at 22:46, John André Netland wrote:
> 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. > > -- 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.
