Alex, I've had that sort of thing happen on one of my older XServe's at work. They don't have built-in sound so I use either USB speakers or USB headset. I've just tried it in the first state, whether VO was on or off I wouldn't know. If it didn't work, then I just pressed cmd-w a few times, Escape a few times for good measure, then VO-f5 to hopefully turn VO on, went through the steps again and it usually worked. If you get sighted assistance, that's great, but if you get tired of waiting, just try again after attempting to turn VO on. You really can't hurt anything.
By the way, you said something in your original post about hearing noise out of the internal speakers. Is that VO noise that you're hearing, but just no speech? If so, you may just have muted VO speech instead. To turn that back on, you can press VO-f8 to open the VO Utility, cmd-3 to go to the Speech options, tab twice then press the space bar and it should turn back on. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-10-03, at 4:47 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I can't even tell if VO is on, since I toggled a few times hoping it > would return to normal before I asked the list what I should do. I can't get > the system preferences suggestion to work either way. Hopefully a sighted > family member will come home soon. Oh, and as to shutting down, I'd really > rather not do a hard shut down and pressing the power button does not work. > Thanks anyway all. > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 3, 2013, at 17:08, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes, a few more steps. >> >> • VO-m to go up to the Apple menu. >> • Down arrow once to open the menu and press "s" "y" to go to System Prefs. >> • Press tab once. >> • Press "s" "o" "u" to move to the Sound Pref button then press VO-space to >> activate the pane. >> >> The rest should work like Ricardo mentioned: >> >> • VO-right twice to land on the Output tab. >> • VO-space to Activate. >> • VO-cmd-t to go to the Table of devices. >> • Up arrow lots of times to get to the top of the list. >> >> The first one in the list should be the built-in sound. >> >> HTH. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On 2013-10-03, at 2:30 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Unfortunately, I don't have a function key on my keyboard. Is this possible >>> to do without that key? >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On Oct 3, 2013, at 14:50, Ricardo Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> press FN option f12 and press VO right arrow twice, and press VO space. >>>> Now, press VO command T. Now press your up arrow like 5 times. Let me >>>> know if you get VO back. >>>> >>>> hth >>>> >>>> Ricardo Walker >>>> [email protected] >>>> Twitter:@apple2thecore >>>> www.appletothecore.info >>>> >>>>> On Oct 3, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> 'Hi all, >>>>> I was playing with a bluetooth headset today. Now, I can hear system >>>>> sounds through my regular speakers, but Voiceover is totally silent. What >>>>> did I do, and more importantly, how do I fix it? The headset is off, so >>>>> why would vo not return to my speakers if system sounds have? 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