Hi, Yes. I get this from time to time. When it happens, press command F5 4 times. This will bring speech back up.
hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 20, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Kerri <shalo...@shaw.ca> wrote: > I have this issue as well and it seems to be worsening, Phil. Sometimes > Braille works but not speech. > On 2013-02-20, at 7:24 AM, Phil Halton <philh...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> upon waking from sleep mode, often VO will not speak. I have to mess around >> with the volume keys to get some system sounds going, then turn VO off and >> back on a few times before it will finally come up talking. It takes about >> two or three minutes to do all this and get VO talking again. >> >> it doesn't happen consistently, but more often than not, VO will go silent >> after sleep mode, or a prolonged period of computer inactivity. >> >> Actually, it seems to be tied into system sounds, since I won't get any of >> the thunking, beeping, quacking sounds that occur when you do something to >> invoke a system sound, whether VO is turned on or not. So, maybe it's not a >> VO problem but a system problem? >> >> Any ideas suggestions or advice are welcome - it's getting a little annoying. >> >> >> -- >> 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 tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > > -- > 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?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
