Hi Anne, I've never been able to get your method to work. Some people said hitting Command-F5 once, then Command-Tab, then Command-F5 five times within thirty seconds works, too.
However, since none of this works for me, I've found it safer in my case to hit Command-Space for Spotlight, type Terminal, hit enter and type killall -9 VoiceOver to ensure VoiceOver restarts. That's another way to do it, and it works if all else does not. I have experienced that sometimes, I am also unable to use keyboard shortcuts but that has only happened once. Regards, Nic GoogleTalk: [email protected] Facebook Twitter Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: [email protected] Yahoo! Messenger: cin368 AIM: cincinster On Nov 22, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Eric, > > This is a very common problem at the moment. You just press Cmd-F5 four times > and VoiceOver starts speaking again. > > There is no crash log because VoiceOver isn't crashing, it's just going > silent. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 22 Nov 2010, at 12:16, Eric Oyen wrote: > >> ok, ever since I tried, and failed to update to 10.6.5, my machine has been >> displaying some weird problems. >> the top most one is that voiceover will freeze at random in the middle of >> reading a web page, writing an e-mail, or something else requiring its >> output. >> I have done the repair permissions bit and culled unused programs and their >> various spawnage. so what gives? VO will not respond to its CMD+F5 command >> to quit/restart. I actually have to get someone in here and tell me the >> process ID of the app so I can kill it directly. >> >> the malfunction doesn't seem to be making it into the logs either. I am >> really at my whits end here. >> >> HELP! >> >> -- >> 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. >
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