Re: Getting multilingual voices back after upgrading to Mavericks

2014-04-09 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Mike, The idea of the bootable USB key is to ensure that whatever the situation, you can do a clean install of Mavericks without even needing an internet connection. In your current situation, you really need to do a clean install of Mavericks and retrieve your data using Time Machine. F

Re: Getting multilingual voices back after upgrading to Mavericks

2014-04-09 Thread Mike Busboom
Hello Anne, Thank you very much for your response. I have what might be a naive question, so please bare with me and be forgiving. You wrote: "If you have access to another Mac, you should download Mavericks to that one without installing it, then make a bootable USB key with which to reinsta

Re: Getting multilingual voices back after upgrading to Mavericks

2014-04-09 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Mike, If you have access to another Mac, you should download Mavericks to that one without installing it, then make a bootable USB key with which to reinstall Mavericks on your own machine. When you get Mavericks installed cleanly on your machine, do not copy over the Infovox iVox voices

Re: Getting multilingual voices back after upgrading to Mavericks

2014-04-09 Thread Mike Busboom
Hi, Anne, Sorry for not getting back to you in a more expeditious manner. VoiceOver is barely working, but as a very helpful friend on this list has encouraged me to do, I will try to remain relaxed and focused. The German voices I have are from Infovox. I never used the German VoiceOver voi

Re: Getting multilingual voices back after upgrading to Mavericks

2014-04-07 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Mike, First of all, are you using the German voices provided by Apple or the Infovox iVox voices? How did you do your upgrade. Did you do a clean install and import your data from a Time Machine back up or did you just install Mavericks on top of Mountain Lion? I think there's a lot to

Getting multilingual voices back after upgrading to Mavericks

2014-04-07 Thread Mike Busboom
Hello Everyone, I just upgraded to Mavericks and I am experiencing some of the same things that others have encountered and mentioned on the list. VoiceOver is very choppy, and I really hope that this problem doesn't stick with me forever. I am having another problem, however, where I could us