Hello Anouk, On my MacBook the mute/unmute key is (Fn)+F10. If you have installed Snow Leopard, I think that whether you press the Fn key along with the F10 key depends on whether you have set up System Preferences for the "Keyboard & Mouse" (VO-M to menu bar, arrow down into Apple menu, press "s y" to navigate to System Preferences, press enter to select option, then navigate with tab or item chooser menu to the "Keyboard & Mouse" button and press with VO-Space to bring up this window) so that you check the box "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" on the Keyboard tab).
If the sound is not muted when you press the F10 key, it is likely being used as an Exposé key -- a kind of visual analog to VoiceOver's window chooser menu where all windows on the Desktop are displayed in a kind of icon view for selection/switching. Press F10 again to switch out of Exposé mode if this happens, then try Fn+F10 to mute and then unmute your sound. The F11 and F12 keys on recent Mac keyboards are used to decrease or increase volume. The F1 and F2 keys are used to decrease or increase screen brightness. In Leopard, switching VoiceOver on by default meant that you need to press the Fn key, too, to adjust brightness or volume, but this wasn't true in Tiger. HTH Cheers, Esther a radix wrote: > > Hi, yes but i actually meant like permanent, i think control only > mutes till > you move the cursor, i will try it though (still doing mail on the > windows > machine till i have time to read the switching to apple book). > Greetings, Anouk, > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Woody Anna Dresner" <wadres...@att.net> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 1:58 PM > Subject: Re: muting voice with a key? > > >> >> Hi Anou, >> >> Press Control to mute speech. >> >> best, >> Anna >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
