hw do you get addoum to read the incomming chats automatically I must have missed that
On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Chris Westbrook wrote: > adium doesn't seem to have the problem of crashing vo when interacting > with chat areas. It also doesn't separate accounts into multiple > windows like ichat does. You can also get messagesread allowed in > adium too. Might want to try it out. > > On 6/17/10, Chris Moore <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. >> >> > > -- > 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.
