Hello, I am not sure if this is related to your situation but I sometimes have vo stop speech if skype announces somehting (for some reason it uses alex for this while I use peter). Then I have to mute/unmite speech to get it working again. Greetings, Anouk, On Dec 2, 2009, at 11:29 PM, 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.
