OK, as a last resort, try completely removing that Activity and carefully 
set it up again from scratch.  I just changed my Safari Activity to using 
Daniel and it works as it should.

Take Care

John Panarese
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On Aug 2, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:

> Activities is now doing my head in.  Selected new voice Emily and still the 
> activity does not work.
> On 2 Aug 2011, at 20:31, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
> 
>> I will try that and let you know.
>> On 2 Aug 2011, at 20:16, John Panarese wrote:
>> 
>>>   Have you tried using a different voice for the Activity just to see if 
>>> the Daniel voice isn't the problem?  Again, just thinking out loud here.  I 
>>> know when I used Daniel for an audio demo I did on the new voices, I 
>>> initially had trouble getting him to stick in my activity.  I had to keep 
>>> setting it the first few times before I got him to stick.
>>> 
>>> Take Care
>>> 
>>> John Panarese
>>> [email protected]
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Aug 2, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I did all of these things so now I do not understand.
>>>> On 2 Aug 2011, at 20:00, John Panarese wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> OK, I'm coming in here late, so forgive me if these questions have 
>>>>> already been asked.  Did you check the box for voices in the Activities 
>>>>> pane in VO Utility.  Also, did you select the voice you want to use for 
>>>>> the activity in the Activities pane.  You must set that there in order 
>>>>> for the activity to use it.  
>>>>> 
>>>>> Take Care
>>>>> 
>>>>> John Panarese
>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Aug 2, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> No Ricardo this is not working, meaning that I can select Daniel for 
>>>>>> Safari but when I quit safari and go back to finder, and change the 
>>>>>> voice back to Alex, open safari, Alex is then the default voice.
>>>>>> On 2 Aug 2011, at 16:29, Ricardo Walker wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi Kawal,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I think changing the voice manually when you open safari should do it.  
>>>>>>> Go to Safari and press VO command Left Or  right arrow until you reach 
>>>>>>> the voices category then, press VO command down arrow to select Daniel. 
>>>>>>>  He should be the default voice for Safari now.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> hth
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Ricardo Walker
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>>>>>>> Twitter & Skype: rwalker296
>>>>>>> www.mobileaccess.org
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Aug 2, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hello Teresa.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I did as you have described, but when I opened Safari after turning 
>>>>>>> Voice Over Off and on, I expected to hear Daniel but Alex was still 
>>>>>>> speaking so what is wrong?  I even restarted the Mac just in case.  
>>>>>>> What do you and others think?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Kawal.
>>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 2 Aug 2011, at 02:24 PM, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hello, Kawal,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I'll see if I can spell the steps out both thoroughly and concisely.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Open VO Utility and choose Activities from the categories list.  Then 
>>>>>>>> go to the add button and press it. Follow all of the controls on the 
>>>>>>>> new activity screen. You must name your activity by choosing a running 
>>>>>>>> application from the popup menu. There will be checkboxes 
>>>>>>>> corresponding to each VO-utility category. Make sure all the 
>>>>>>>> categories you want to adjust are checked. Then close the window for 
>>>>>>>> the activity settings.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I will say that I used one of the Nuance voices in Safari and 
>>>>>>>> sometimes it was not responsive, so I took that setting out of my 
>>>>>>>> safari activity.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> HTH,
>>>>>>>> Teresa
>>>>>>>> On Aug 2, 2011, at 1:02 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Hello All.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I listened to Ricardo's podcast re activities and tried setting a 
>>>>>>>>> safari activity changing the voice too.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I turned Voice over off before loading Safari and turned Voice Over 
>>>>>>>>> back on.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> The voice did not change so I assume the activity did not work.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I wish to know what I am doing wrong as I followed Ricardo's 
>>>>>>>>> instructions.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Thank you all for any replies I might get.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Kawal.
>>>>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
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