This is very useful, thank you Mary. I also stumbled across this when I looked in the VO help area getting started, using os x applications. There is a very useful section on using iChat. I forgot how useful pressing VO+H is for help is lol. On 17 Jun 2010, at 16:51, Mary Otten wrote:
> There has been some talk about IM clients lately and I thought folks might be > interested in something I just learned about yesterday on another Mac-related > list. You can get your incoming IChat messages read out to you by opening the > Ichat preferences (command comma when in Ichat. There is an events pop up > button which you activate with the space bar and then arrow down the list of > events until you hear message received and press enter. There is a series of > choices found by vo right arrowing. One of those options, the last one in the > group is speak an announcement. that's a misleading label, because what this > actually does is to read the incoming message. check that check box and your > incoming messages will be read automatically. You can apparently adjust the > speed of the reading by the system preferences, speech area, but I haven't > looked for that yet so can't report. By default, at least on my system, the > voice used was Alex, but the speech rate was really slow. Since I have had > the problem with VO crashing in the Ichat html area, I was very glad to hear > about this method of hearing incoming messages. there appears to be a lot of > customization that you can do in Ichat. there are several events in that > events pop up menu, and you dcan assign sounds to them or speak announcements > etc. Hope that helps somebody. > > mary > > -- > 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.
