I have an update on this problem. I don’t know what I did, but now the speech attribute hotkeys (VO command arrows) are working normally. Now when I VO command arrow right and left I only hear the attribute name and not the category as well. for example voice, rate, pitch, volume etc, and the changes are applied globally to all categoriees. Before, when I was hearing “default voice, default rate” etc, the changes would only be applied to that category. It bugs me that I don’t know how I corrected this. I went into commands help (VO +HH and looked around a bit, then went into keyboard help and pressed those hotkeys , and then things started working normally.
> On Jan 18, 2015, at 3:31 PM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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? > -- 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.
