In the voices pane of the Speech window of Voice Over Utility, there are several categories of speech that can be tailored with different voices, speech rates, pitch etc. The various categories are: Default, Context, Status, Type, Attributes, and finally, Voice over menu. The VO command arrow hotkeys for changing rate, pitch, voice, volume etc now only affect the “default” voice category. I know this because when I press those hotkeys, I hear “default Voice”, “default rate” etc, and that tells me only the default category is being changed. Default handles things like header row labels in Mail’s message table and so forth, Whereas the Content category handles actual data. For example, in textedit, the actual text of a file is considered “content” and the VoiceOver settings for content affect how text is read. But, the speaking of menus and toolbar items are controlled by the Default category of voice options. So, if you use the VO command arrow keys to change speech rate, only the menus and toolblbar items will speak at the slower rate, and the actual text, or content, will continue along at its original rate. The only way to change the rate of “content” is to go into VO Utility and change the content rate. The VO command hotkeys won’t change that category of voice options, as they now only affect “default” category. Try checking the box for “additional voice Options” after the default options and you’ll see all the other categories of speakable items and their voice settings. They’re mostly all set to use the same settings as the default category, but the VO command hotkeys won’t affect them. I don’t ever remember seeing the “category” field in this window under mavericks. Hope I’ve made the problem clear. Is anyone else encountering this, and how have you gotten around it? How do you change the rate of speech when reading a textedit file, or any content for that matter?
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