Re: Bluetooth Speakers Question

2013-12-16 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, No way that I am aware of. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Dec 15, 2013, at 6:06 PM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, is there any way to know if QuickNav is on or off if you can't hear VoiceOver, or

Re: Bluetooth Speakers Question

2013-12-15 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Ricardo, That's fantastic advice. I just tried it with VO on, and your directions got me to where I needed to be with a little practice should be able to remember it. Thanks, going to try it tomorrow with VO turned off, to see if I can do it. Thanks again. On Dec 15, 2013, at 1:40 AM,

Re: Bluetooth Speakers Question

2013-12-15 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hey, is there any way to know if QuickNav is on or off if you can't hear VoiceOver, or do you just use trial and error Cheers, Nic? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

Re: Bluetooth Speakers Question

2013-12-14 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, With a little practice, and memorization, you can fix this with out restarting your Mac. First, you can open the sounds preferences by pressing FN option F11 or F12. Note: FN depends on how you have function keys set up in your keyboard preferences. You might have to only press Option

Re: Bluetooth Speakers Question

2013-12-13 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Bryan, From my experience, VoiceOver by default doesn't play through AirPlay speakers. This has always been how I've wanted it, as I usually use AirPlay to play music or movies, and don't want VoiceOver blaring out at a billion decibels for all to hear. But this might not be what you want

Re: Bluetooth Speakers Question

2013-12-13 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Nicholas, Yes, David Woodbridge did do a podcast on that, but my question would be are the Air Play speakers more reliable than Bluetooth with VO? Since I got the Bluetooth speakers I have kind of enjoyed VO coming through them. My concern is when Bluetooth loses connectivity. I was

Re: Bluetooth Speakers Question

2013-12-13 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Bryan, Yes, AirPlay is much more reliable than bluetooth and works perfectly, assuming you can get VoiceOver to play via AirPlay in the first place. NO, unfortunately there's no way to get VoiceOver to default to the built in output if bluetooth fails. If there were, there wouldn't be a

Re: Bluetooth Speakers Question

2013-12-13 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Nick, We must think alike as as soon as I got the bluetooth speakers I went to keyboard to commander to see if I could set a toggle for my speaker output but couldn't find one. Yeah, the bluetooth speakers crapped out again today. I was on a long phone call and heard VO say there was a

Re: Bluetooth Speakers Question

2013-12-12 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Bryan, This is a known issue with VoiceOver and bluetooth sound output devices. The issue is so bad that I don't bother ever using bluetooth headsets, at least not for VoiceOver. It's a real shame, as the best wireless headsets are now all bluetooth. Not sure why this is either, as bluetooth

Re: Bluetooth Speakers Question

2013-12-12 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Nicholas, Thanks for letting me know. It all seems to be working for the last day. Any idea if Air Play speakers work better with the desktop than bluetooth? I didn't go Air Play because all the reviews claimed they weren't any better than bluetooth, and you are just paying more for

Bluetooth Speakers Question

2013-12-11 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I just recently connected a pair of bluetooth speakers to my mac, and twice I have completely lost VO, not sure if it has been a bluetooth pairing issue or me screwing up a setting. Both times I had to have someone who can see come in and fiddle around with my speaker output and VO

Re: Bluetooth Speakers Question

2013-12-11 Thread Teresa Cochran
Try VO utility, sound. There’s a set of options in there for VO output: system default and whatever devices you have. I have a USB headset and built-in audio, and when my Bluetooth device was connected, it showed that as well. Check your settings as they are now. For example, you might not want

Re: Bluetooth Speakers Question

2013-12-11 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Teresa, Yeah, that's what I thought the answer might be. I was really liking the VO going through the bluetooth speakers as VO was sounding a lot crisper, but with the bluetooth speakers having some issues I might have to stick to the old built in speakers or go through the 3.5 jack so as