Hi, Besides the toggle feature of pausing/restarting VO speech, the double-press of the ctrl key usually "stops" the speech. At least, way back when VO was first implemented, that was the expected behaviour, this may have changed, I'm not sure either way though.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On May 12, 2014, at 9:36 AM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Also, as to the problem of the control key, remember that it is a > pause/resume switch, and that pressing it once is supposed to pause speech, > and pressing it again will resume speech. So, pressing it indiscriminately > will result in the situation you report. That is, if you press it a bunch of > times, you may be telling it to resume speech, depending on the number of the > last key press. . The other poster was right, it is not as responsive as it > should always be, and so sometimes we press it a bunch of times in > frustration. Hope this makes sense, I'm on my first cup of coffee. > > On May 12, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> For your first question, try renaming the file instead of letting the Mail >> app do it for you. If, for some reason, the filename is too long, it won't >> allow it to be saved. For your second question, it's likely a buffer issue, >> sometimes it will stop right away, sometimes it won't stop speaking until >> it's good and ready to stop speaking. Just press Control or double-press >> Control and try it a number of times, it will usually work sooner or later. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On May 12, 2014, at 8:49 AM, isaac <isaac.heb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi I was trying to help some one save a email as an rtf and save it to >>> there documents. One problem that we are running in to is when after we get >>> in to the save as dialog and choose documents and choose save it tells use >>> that it can't be saved to this path. Why is this happening? Now here is the >>> second problem every time she pressing her control key some times voiceover >>> won't stop talking. We tried having her turn off hints but even that didn't >>> help. How so we fix this issue?saac >>> isaac.heb...@gmail.com >>> Skype gold_wildcat >>> >>> -- >>> 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. -- 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.
