To switch voices press control option command left arrow and right arrow and use the up and arrows to to make ajustments. On Feb 26, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Zoe Fiogkos <fiog...@rogers.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone, so I finally took the big dive and got my new iMac and of course > coming from the world of windows I'm totally lost. However I am also excited > to learn something new. I did purchase apple care and I also belong to this > great list so these options should help, and even though I feel like I'm at > the bottom of a huge mountain with the peak no where in sight I'm looking > forward to climbing and exploring this new mountain. > The first thing I did is the voiceover tutorial and that helped a little. My > first questions that I need help with is as follows. > One of the reasons I went with Mac is because apple offers voiceover in other > languages and one of those languages is my native tongue. I've downloaded > the voice that is assigned to my native tongue which is Greek. I have also > added the keyboard input source of Greek, up until this point everything is > okay. > I figured out that to change the keyboard layout from Canadian English to > Greek the hotkey is command spacebar, again great it works. Heres where the > first problem comes in. when I open the notes from the doc and I start typing > everything is okay, but when I press command spacebar to switch to the Greek > voiceover says spot light search, it types in Greek but not in the body of > the document and of course when I press enter it takes me to the internet. > Can anyone help. I thought about trying it out on pages which is listed in > the doc but I don't think I have pages even though its listed in the doc. > The second problem is I can't find a hotkey for switching voices/languages > with a hotkey. > Does anyone know how I can do this using the keyboard? I don't want to > always want to half to open the voiceover utility or system preferences just > to switch voices or languages, I'm assuming and hoping there is a hotkey for > this action. > Of course I have a thousand more questions but let's start with these, and > hopefully someone can help me with this before I move to something else. > I would appreciate any help and advice. > Thanks in advance, > Your friendly neighbourhood lister and new Mac user, > Zoe > > -- > 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. > 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.