Hello Andrew, Although I was able to download German and it initially worked perfectly, I blew something else, and German has disappeared.
When I tried to add a German keyboard in the Mac preferences, I did something (I don’t know what) and I not only lost German speech, but I did not install the German keyboard either. I feel like such a Klutz! I made my mistakes in the Apple preferences menu, language and Regional settings pane. Although I can currently only choose between English voices, it takes my Mac at least five seconds to switch from one to the other, something which occurred instantaneously prior to my flub-up. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Mike > On 17 Feb 2017, at 20:17, Andrew Lamanche <ioani...@me.com> wrote: > > Dear Michael, > > Go to Voiceover utility, speech category and select Voice tab. Then activate > the default voice button and from the menu choose customise. You will find a > table of all the possible voices that Apple can offer us on the mac. Choose > the voices you want from the table and press ok. It will take some time for > them to download, so go and have a cup of coffee. Then restart Voiceover. > Your default voice won't change but now you should be able to switch your > chosen voices on the fly by using the shortcut key combination > control+option+command+down arrow. > > Hope this will help > > Andrew >> On 17 Feb 2017, at 18:16, Michael Busboom <mbusb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> I am very embarrassed to be asking this question, because I have been using >> a MacBook for over eight years. My only defence is that the Mac has worked >> so well for me that I have not needed to change things, once they were set >> up properly. >> >> It became necessary to retire my 2009 MacBook. I have now been using the >> latest 13 inch MacBook for three days. >> >> Here’s my problem: >> >> My system is configured to use the US language operating system, but I live >> in Austria, so much of my work is done in German. Consequently, I need to >> regularly switch between German and English. My new MacBook is speaking >> English without any problems. However, I am unable to figure out how to add >> German without making it my default language. If I go into the VoiceOver >> utility menu by pressing VO-F8, I can’t find any option to let me download >> additional languages. Besides not being able to find where to download >> additional languages, I am unable to change my default voice in English, >> because VO isn’t downloading my preferred voice. The message I have been >> getting for the past two days when trying to download a different default >> voice for English is: “Waiting for download.” >> >> So in a nutshell, here are my questions: >> >> 1. Where can I go to grab German to be used as my secondary language? >> >> 2. What can I do to initiate downloading of a default English language >> voice that is currently not on my system? >> >> Thanks so much in advance, >> >> Mike >> >> I recently retired my 2009 >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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