Hi, I wonder if this has something to do with announcements. When using the voice Alex, if you switch in or out of the app that you have an Activity applied to, VO announces "VoiceOver Settings Activity along with a view other App notes. If you use a different voice, non-Apple, then this phrase is not announced but silence is not golden. Sometimes, if I press ctrl twice to make VO be quiet, then this announcement/pause is eliminated or decreased.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Aug 21, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > Most every voice is Nuance, yes. Alex is not, and the older voices (Fred, and > the other old-style synthesizers) are not, but any you have to download are. > Yes, the bug is present even if the activity does not change the voice in > use. No, there is no workaround I know of; keep emailing > accessibil...@apple.com and using www.apple.com/feedback. > On Aug 21, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Christina C. <blindmaclo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> How do I know if it's a Nuance voice that I am using? Are they all Nuance >> voices except for Alex and some of the low quality voices? I have surely >> noticed that when I want to change voices it is a very sluggish process. I >> usually just stick to Ava. I want to try activities. If I use the same voice >> for all apps, will performance still be sluggish? Is there a work around or >> do you just have to live with the sluggish behavior? >> >> Thanks, >> Christina >> >> On Aug 21, 2014, at 2:05 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> wrote: >> >>> Aha! Thanks Jonathan, I thought that performance bug with activities was >>> just me, but evidently not. Yes, very annoying; put a complete damper on >>> Nuance for me, since I have Safari automatically initiate my web activity, >>> and of course Safari is almost always open which means simply pressing Vo D >>> to get to the dock will produce an annoyingly long pause before I can do >>> anything else. Sincerely hope it gets fixed and I'll dash off a note to >>> Apple Accessibility about it now too. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > mehg...@icloud.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
