Hi, There are two places for voices. The System and VoiceOver. Setting the System voice deals with automatic announcing of System dialogs, Speak Selected Text features and other global system related announcements. Setting the System voice is handled in System Preferences, Accessibility, under the Speech category. You can set the default voice and rate and what you wish to be announced. VoiceOver default voice settings are set in the VoiceOver Utility under the Speech category as well. One thing to note is that you can have duplicate announcements of dialogs when you have both VO and the System set to announce text in dialogs. As mentioned, the System configuration of this is found in System Prefs, Accessibility in the Speech category whereas in the VO Utility, this announcement setting is configured in the Verbosity category under the Announcements tab.
HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Dec 10, 2019, at 22:07, Angus MacKinnon <thedog...@gmail.com> wrote: I just upgraded my iMac to Mac OS 10.15.2 and Choose my default Voice. I am getting Alex when I type, in the Message Window and for any Hints. . How do I turn off Alex? Thank you. Angus MacKinnon, Personalism Student Ghandi said, “ It is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” -- 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. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/36B5AC1A-B1AC-430C-A208-318B0F32D49C%40gmail.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/36B5AC1A-B1AC-430C-A208-318B0F32D49C%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/CBCDB657-7E2D-42B2-AF7B-6C26C328187B%40me.com.
