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 voices. how would I get them, and what do I need to do to get the Infovox voices to "speak" German again? Secondly and unfortunately, I just installed the upgrade over what I was previously, which was Mountain Lion. I can't repair permissions because I get no response from VO when I click on a lot of the buttons, even when they are the default selection. I may just bring my Mac to the Apple store, along with my Time Machine Capsule. It took me a very long time to even write this simple note, because VO frequently just stops talking for several minutes at a time. However, stopping, and then re-starting VO works some of the time, when VO isn't turning itself off while I write. It's odd. Sometimes when I am writing, the Mac suddenly says: "VoiceOver off." I have a feeling that the problems will go away, once permissions have been repaired. Kindest regards, and please excuse the typos and mistakes! Mike On 7,Apr,2014, at 15:41, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: > 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 be said for doing a clean install and importing your > data from a back up and of course, you need to repair permissions after that. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 7 Apr 2014, at 15:09, Mike Busboom <mbusb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 use some insight. I am >> unable to switch between German and English though when I cycle through the >> voice options using the Control-Option-Command combination, along with the >> arrow keys, the German voices are there. However, when their names are >> announced, they are done so using Alex and his American pronunciation. I am >> unable to get my Mac to speak German with the proper German pronunciation. >> >> Does anyone have any ideas about how to address this issue? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Mike >> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. > > -- > 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/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout.
