Hi, Oops, sorry, maybe I said things in a confusing manner.
1. In the Speech pane of VO Utility, in the Voices tab, activate the Default Voice pop-up. 2. Choose the Customize option. 3. Interact (VO-shift-down arrow) with the table of voices. 4. Navigate through the list pressing VO-space to check the voices you wish to download. If the voice is already available to you, it will already say “So and so, Checked”. 5. After you have all the voices you wish checked, stop interacting with the table (VO-shift-up arrow) then navigate right to the OK button. 6. If you go back to the Default Voice pop-up, activate it, then arrow through or VO-up or VO-down arrow through. The one that is presently downloading should say “Downloading” and the ones that are in the Queue will say “Waiting” after announcing the name. 7. Just leave your computer open and they will download. They might take quite a while as the voices seem to come from a slower server. As a matter of interest, I started some downloading at work this afternoon, did some other things, closed my MBP and came home. I checked on them while writing this message and they seem to have finished downloading. I now have them all in my list of available voices from the Default Voices pop-up. You may also like to note that there is a quick method of changing the voice on the fly. Press VO-cmd-left or right arrow. As you go left or right, you’ll hear “Intonation, Rate, Pitch, Volume and Voice” from which you can hold the same keys down then use the up and down arrows to change things. Later… Side-note: I noticed that when I chose a few of these new voices, they played for the demo but did not actually work properly for other tasks. I’ll have to dig a little deeper to see what’s going on. Maybe it had something to do with stopping and starting of the download process, or maybe I just need to restart my beast. 5. Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Dec 5, 2013, at 5:30 PM, Lee Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Tim thanks for the info. I activated the OK default button for Karen > and when software update didn’t come upI went back to the voice list. > Abovecompact Daniel was downloading Karen dimmed,I waited for a while but in > the end the downloading Karen option disappeared all together. When you say > you can download multiple voices using the default voice pop up and ok > default button is this not mislabelled because they can’t all be defaults? > > Best Wishes, Lee > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn > Sent: 05 December 2013 22:43 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: MBA Help > > Hi Lee, > > It appears that Software Update no longer pops up when downloading voices. > If you press VO-space (VO means ctrl-optio) on the Default Voice pop-up then > arrow down through the list, after Customize, VO will read more voices and > will say “So and so Downloading” if a voice is being downloaded at that time. > I believe that it only downloads one voice at a time and will continue > downloading voices even when the VO Utility is not open. Once the voice has > completed downloading, you are able to choose it as your default. > > When you choose Customize and navigate through the table of additional > voices, you can press VO-space to check as many voices as you wish to add to > your system. Once you’ve got all the voices checked that you want, stop > interacting with the table and navigate to the OK button then press it. As I > mentioned above, you can use that process to determine which voices are > downloading and, eventually, they should all be added to your system. > > Regarding how to wake your MBA, just open the lid and it awakens. You’ll > likely need to press return or tap once on the trackpad to bring focus to the > authentication window where you can enter your password. > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Dec 5, 2013, at 8:31 AM, Lee Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear List, thanks for the helpI have made some slight progress. setting my > function keys to software control,and setting the tab key to all controls, > although I haven't seen as much benefit as I thought I would from the latter. > My main problem now is I can't install an enhanced voice. When I first > activated voice over it seemed to be using an enhanced voice, and then when I > registered my apple ID it went back to compact, and this was before I had > been anywhere near the voice over utility. I have listened to the podcast on > applevis about installing an enhanced voice,but I can't get it to work. It > is probably something silly that I am not doing. I have been able to play > the enhanced quality voice for Karen twice, and then moved to the right both > times, the first time it said OK default dimmed,and the second time it said > Ok default implying that it could be activated,but then control option space > just results in"closing dialog" and does not launch software update as per > the podcast. Can some kind soul give me a list of every keypress after > loading the vo utility to downloding the voice,baring in mind that I have > been in there and it seems to remember where I was. When you select to > change the default voice does that mean you can only download one voice > because only one can be the default? Would it not be better to be able to > download the voices you want, and then select the default from those? At a > tangent how do you wake a macbook from sleep? > > Many Thanks and apologies for Rambling Lee > ----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Georgina Joyce > Sent: 04 December 2013 22:44 > To: AppleVis List > Subject: Re: MBA Help > > Hello, > > I’m a new Mac user but feel it’s worth it. What is happening here is that > there are 2 levels of function keys. By default they are hardware controls > i.e. volume and brightness. So by pressing Function key + VO + F8 will get > you there. The Function is next to the VO keys. Thus you just need to hold > the bottom left-hand 3 keys and then press F8 and let go. > > HTH > > Gena > > > On 4 Dec 2013, at 21:55, Lee Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear List,I got my macbook air today. I hav found it a very tough learning > curve. I can't get control option f8 to bring up the voice over utility no > matter how many times I try,, a sighted person has also tried and it does not > work. Does the focus have to be somewhere special to make this work?How do > you turn off the macbook do you use the on off button or is there a way in > OSX itself, a shut down button? Can Someone explain very simply the > difference between the functions of control option and the arrow keys, > control option command and the arrow keys,control option shift and the arrow > keys because maybe I'm thick but I don't get it! > is it possible to download voices without using the voice over utility? I am > suddenly not hating freedom scientific quite so much. > > Many Thanks, Lee -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brandon Olivares > Sent: 04 December 2013 15:18 > To: “Mac Visionaries“ > Subject: Re: Option Key Not Working > > Nope it doesn't matter if keyboard commander is on or off. > > On Dec 4, 2013, at 3:59 AM, "Red.Falcon" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi! > OK just a couple of ideas! > 1, do you have both option keys set to use with keyboard commander! > 2, Just try switching off keyboard commander with VO+shift+k and see if the > option key things like € • and others! > I've found if you need to use those items it is best to toggle on or off > keyboard commander when needed! > HTH Colin > > On 4 Dec 2013, at 07:25, Brandon Olivares <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > My option key works technically, as if I press ctrl-option-space it works > just fine. > > However, if I try to navigate by word with option left or right arrow, it > doesn't work. The cursor just doesn't move and voiceover doesn't say > anything. I can use command arrow to navigate, or just the arrow keys > themselves, but not using option. > > i also can't use it to enter special characters, like accents and such. > > But it does work when I use it for keyboard commander to open certain > applications. So it seems very selective about when it works or not. 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