I missed the thread but probably through growl. I don't do that though as I don't like to be disturbed but to each his or her own. On Jun 17, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Michael Thurman wrote:
> how do you get adium to read the incoming 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 messages read 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. > -- 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.
