I should really have said, the way I did it on Windows was to use a small application called Smart Butler. It cost $15 or so and it monitored all instances of chat in Skype, MSN, IRC and Yahoo. If a new message dropped in to either it would read it out loud with whichever TTS engine you specified. I would love a version of this for mac but haven't managed to find one. Also I guess it may have sounded like I was saying I liked windows more but that is not the case at all. I love the Mac and voiceover is superior in almost every way to Zoomtext which I was using on Windows. There are just things I haven't worked out yet.
On May 21, 7:19 pm, Andy Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am relatively new to Mac and occasionally I just can't find a way of > doing things that is as good as the way I did it on Windows. Chat is > the main issue at the moment. If I want to use Skype chat for example > the way I do it is to start the chat window then move the mouse > pointer up a little to read the message that has just dropped in then > down a little again to go back to the edit box. This is hardly > ideal. I thought hotspots and watch hotspots would help but > unfortunately they don't work as I imagined. I thought i'd just mark > a hotspot then tell voiceover to watch it then if the text on that > line changed it would announce it. No such luck. Am I doing it > wrong??? or is that not what it is intended for? If not how do you > all use chat? Skype Facebook and MSN are what i'd like to use. I > can't imagine the way i'm doing it at present is the best way. > Another thing i'd really like help with is IRC chat. I am using the > exact same method to read chat frames. Nudge the pointer up into the > window to read the posts then back down to type my own message. There > must be a better way. :) Thanks very much for any help anyone can > give. > > -- > 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 > athttp://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.
