I will try this option and let you all know how it works. Also you mentioned the quickstart voiceover tutorial and yes I did this and it has helped a little. Of course I have a lot of knew keyboard commands to memorize and it will take a while. Thank you for your help. Will try your recommendation soon. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of isaac Sent: February-26-14 9:56 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: new mac user please help 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 to <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit <https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> 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. -- 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.
