Hi Eric,
Your memory is correct. Pressing the CTRL key while VO is speaking will
silence speech, and pressing it again will resume speech.
This has not changed in recent and current versions of the macOS.
Sometimes VO misbehaves and it is necessary to toggle VO off and back on to
correct its behavior.
When silencing speech with the CTRL key, be sure you press and release the CTRL
key and do not continue to hold the CTRL down. This makes it clear what
command you are giving to VO.
HTH
- Brad -
On Mar 15, 2020, at 21:38, Eric Caron <eric.caro...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi listers,
I remember in the past using the control key to stop VO from talking.
Than a second press to start speech again.
In the last two operating systems I don’t seem to be able to do this any
longer. Am I missing something?
In most cases when I press the control key VO just keeps talking and than at
the end says control. This is because I have the modifier keys set to speak
when pressed.
So, for example in mail I may press down arrow to hear a message and then want
to stop speech with control. I press it and it just keeps talking.
Is there another key now to obtain silence and then return to speech?
A little more experimentation is indicating to me that if I turn VO off and on
again the function seems to work again for a time.
Are others experiencing the same?
I find I have to toggle VO off and on a lot lately to get it to work correctly.
This happens a lot when editing text in mail.
Eric Caron
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