Re: stopping speech on the Mac?

2017-06-02 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Helo Donna and all, I experience the same issue. Mostly pressing Capslock ones works better if this is set as the VO key. All the best Jürgen > Am 02.06.2017 um 14:37 schrieb Stan ZA : > > Hi Donna, > I also found it a little annoying, but just, by repeatedly hitting

Re: stopping speech on the Mac?

2017-06-02 Thread Stan ZA
Hi Donna, I also found it a little annoying, but just, by repeatedly hitting "control" twice or thrice, it starts to work normally again. God Bless. Stan ZA amista...@gmail.com Mobile;+27824952094. Home;+27145945119. > On 02 Jun 2017, at 14:07, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hi

Re: stopping speech on the Mac?

2017-06-02 Thread Donna Goodin
Hey, good idea. Thanks! Donna > On Jun 2, 2017, at 7:21 AM, Larry Thacker Jr. > wrote: > > It doesn’t always work though. The fallback is to do something that causes > VO to interrupt itself. I usually turn caps lock on and off. > >> On Jun 2, 2017, at 7:17 AM,

Re: stopping speech on the Mac?

2017-06-02 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Matthew, Yeah, that's how it used to work. But it doesn't any more. When I press it, my Mac just goes right on blabbing. Cheers, Donna > On Jun 2, 2017, at 7:17 AM, Matthew Dierckens wrote: > > Hello Donna, > The way the control key works for speech is, when you

Re: stopping speech on the Mac?

2017-06-02 Thread Larry Thacker Jr.
It doesn’t always work though. The fallback is to do something that causes VO to interrupt itself. I usually turn caps lock on and off. > On Jun 2, 2017, at 7:17 AM, Matthew Dierckens wrote: > > Hello Donna, > The way the control key works for speech is, when you press

Re: stopping speech on the Mac?

2017-06-02 Thread Matthew Dierckens
Hello Donna, The way the control key works for speech is, when you press it once it will pause, when you press it it can it will resume speaking. God bless. Matt Dierckens, Certified assistive technology specialist Macintosh, iOS, and windows Trainor Canadian phone: 519-962-9140 US phone:

stopping speech on the Mac?

2017-06-02 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Time was when pressing the control key would stop speech on the Mac, but that hasn't worked for a long time. I assume this has to do with the way speech is buffered, but it's very annoying, especially when I need to stop speech quickly. Anyone know of another way to do this, or a