You have to go to preferences with command comma, interact with the toolbar, go to events, find the event you want to modify and click edit. One of the choices is to read incoming events. You might have to play with it for a while till you get it set up, but it's worth it. I'll see if there is a way I can export my preferences or something to share them with the list. Don't think there is but who knows. haha. Hope that helps. If you can't figure it out let me know. Maybe I'll do a podcast on it. On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:18 PM, Michael Thurman wrote:
> 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. > -- 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.
