To turn off the quack, go into the VoiceOver utility, and select verbosity in the utility table. Then select the text tab and as you go through, you'll find a button where you choose what happens when a misspelled word is encountered. I just set mine to do nothing. Hope this is what you were looking for.
Veronica Watch and hear The Guide Dog Glee Club sing the Star-spangled Banner at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQNLclisGqQ Then find more music from The Guide Dog Glee Club and Veronica Elsea at http://www.laurelcreekmusic.com Veronica Elsea, Owner Laurel Creek Music Designs Santa Cruz, California Phone: 831-429-6407 On Jul 29, 2012, at 8:56 PM, Christopher-Mark gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > how in the world did you turn it off? > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Veronica Elsea" > <veron...@laurelcreekmusic.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 11:54 PM > Subject: Re: Loud Beeping Noise > > > Those spelling typo quacks sounded like a good idea to me till I started > typing. It drives me crazy that when I type a word like didn't, it > quacks as soon as I hit the apostrophe. It usually jars me enough that I > actually make a typo. <grin.> But I do agree, I've caught some things > early. But yesterday I went in and turned that off so I'll see what life > is like without it. Always fun to experiment, eh? > > Veronica > > > Watch and hear Veronica Elsea's Prayer for a Soldier at > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFoIhWrBHFI > Then find more music from Veronica Elsea and The Guide Dog Glee Club at: > http://www.laurelcreekmusic.com > Veronica Elsea, Owner > Laurel Creek Music Designs > Santa Cruz, California > Phone: 831-429-6407 > > > On 7/29/2012 8:19 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: >> Heh. I actually rather love that noise, and in fact I love the blooping >> noise that the auto-correct thing makes, specifically because it's loud >> enough that I can hear it and realize I've made a typo, go back and fix it >> before auto-whatever could. The whole process is speeded up considerably by >> those noises. It does it in TextEdit when you're reading over text, and >> it's supposed to do it as you type; I haven't tried that in new kitty yet, >> and in fact I do hope it works the way it does in Mail, as it would speed my >> writing up immensely to be notified of most typos immediately upon making >> them. YAY little weird blooping noises! >> >> >> • Mark BurningHawk Baxter >> • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 >> • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com >> • My home page: >> • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.