Hi Cheryl, sounds like he sound card turned off. Had several
incidents of that happen with my G4 Imac here. Usually when vo and
something else would sound off at same time. In fact most of the
occurances happened at times when my system would anounce the time
while I was executing something with vo at same time. Would have to
go back into system preferences and turn it back on. Never had that
kind of trouble when Itunes owas running. One other time I was
messing around with Audio Highjack, and the clock anounced, and Vo
was talking and it shut down. Needless to say since that was the
first time it happened, it gave me a mild panic.
I think only one time I got lucky enough by tabbing and arrowing
exactly to the spot where the cursor needed to be for it to come back
on, but usually would have to wait till I could get some sighted help.
Nowadays, I don't have a bunch of automatic things running. And
since doing my reeinstall in August, and not archiving, I haven't
had the sound drop out on me.
I'm not sure that is the problem you are having, but the results sure
sound the same. It's like it shuts all the output sounds off except
the system "bonk" and the modem which I would use to tell me that the
computer was ready to run normaly and wasn't in the boot up or
installing phase.
I also haven't specifically isolated the actual problem to know if
it's a conflict within the system itself, or vo. Or the combination
of both. I don't realy want to try to replicate that when I am here
by myself because I haven't found a consistant and easy way to get
back to the soundcard when it is off. And I just don't like not
being able to not work with my machine for hours at a time, and
that's always when it seemed to go out on me, when I was here, and my
wife was at work of course.
I know I am being as clear as mud with this e-mail, but realy, I
thought I was the only person who had this problem in the past, and
since thinking that way, didn't post anything into the list. So my
simple solution was to turn off the anouncement of the time every
half hour because that seemed to be the most common times of it
happening.
Don't think this probably helps much, but perhaps we all can figure
out why this is happening.
On Oct 7, 2006, at 7:56 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
hi Scott.
1. No sound from voiceover.
2. No sound from audio applications such as itunes, vlc, etc. etc.
3. No sounds from any of the scripts I have set to do bible verse,
weather, time announcements at intervals, etc. through the say
command mostly.
4. You know how you get a bong when vo is off and you try to do
vokeys and arrows in some windows or you hit a key that has no
function? I get that sound from the internal speaker or whatever
speakers I hook up to it.
5. I don't know if I get the bong for having new mail because mail
isn't turned on and i don't want to turn it on to find out because
I won't be able to read the messages.
6. I don't get system alerts when an app needs attention that you
can set in speech.
In other words, I get nothing but the bongs that you get when you
hit a key combination that you can't use.
--
Cheryl
