Okay, it is now back to normal. Found an option in the general verbosity settings under text. It was speak numbers as digits. Chaning this to words also, for some reason, fixed my terminal issue.
Thanks to all! Jeff On 2010-11-06, at 8:20 AM, Jeff Berwick wrote: > Actually, upon further inspection, it would appear that I've changed some > setting that makes numbers, and possibly capital words, spell individually. > So, in my inbox, I get a message like 8 8 5 messages 5 1 unread instead of > 886 messages and 51 unread. > > There must be a setting to fix this, right? > > Jeff > > On 2010-11-05, at 7:47 PM, Esther wrote: > >> Hi Jeff, >> >> I'm not sure this will help, but it sounds as though your shell is set to >> give a prompt with your machine name, and that this is written in caps. >> This is not the default setting, so I don't know how this might have >> happened. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On Nov 05, 2010, at 01:37 PM, Jeff Berwick wrote: >> >>> This was it. Thank you so much. >>> >>> Unfortunately, when I was trying to go to the application list I was in >>> Terminal and a strange sentence was spoken. I think this is what happened >>> but, now in Terminal, it spells out the name of my computer instead of >>> saying it. As this seems to appear on every line, it makes working in >>> Terminal almost unbearable. Has anybody heard of this and can you offer any >>> solutions? >>> >>> Thx, >>> Jeff >>> >>> On 2010-11-05, at 10:56 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: >>> >>>> Sounds like you might have the option to speak text under the mouse >>>> after a delay. I can't remember if this is in the Universal Access >>>> setting, or Voice Over settings or both. >>>> >>>> This can be a nice feature won for partially sighted folks as when >>>> they hover the mouse over a specific paragraph, the computer will >>>> speak that text. >>>> Jon >>>> >>>> >>>> On 31/10/2010, Colin M <velocity.focu...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>>> Hi Jeff and Louie! >>>>> I have also experienced this as well! >>>>> I'm using a Imac, what I've found is when I'm changing a file name and >>>>> just >>>>> pressed the return key to select edit the name and start typing the new >>>>> name >>>>> it says apple in a few letters like you've said! >>>>> However when i've let vo say [1-01 abba .m4a edit text] >>>>> That apple thing does not happen so I presume that typing before it's >>>>> ready >>>>> will cause this but what it means by saying apple I do not know! >>>>> So just try slowing down a few seconds to see if that helps[ can be a bit >>>>> annoying] >>>>> hth Colin >>>>> On 31 Oct 2010, at 02:40, louie wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Jeff, >>>>>> I have had the same problem. I hear app in other applications. >>>>>> I have a Mac mini. >>>>>> Hope some one can help us. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Oct 30, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Jeff Berwick wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have a Macbook Pro and, from time to time, especially in terminal, it >>>>>>> says "apple" when I am typing. As a result, I only hear 4 out of five >>>>>>> characters I type. The others are replaced by "Apple". >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Can anybody help me to solve this issue? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thx, >>>>>>> Jeff >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
