Hello Brandon, Sometimes, there is an alert for a software update that doesn't speak but stops VoiceOver in its tracks. Try doing VO-F1-F1 to find the Notification centre and closing the alert.
Cheers, Anne On 3 Sep 2014, at 22:45, Brandon A. Olivares <programmer2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I just got a new computer about two months ago. Lately I've been noticing > that Voiceover will randomly stop talking, and I have to restart the computer > to get it back on. I'll just be in the middle of something, generally editing > text in textedit or working in Terminal. I don't think it's happened to me in > Safari yet. > > Any idea why this might be happening? It's quite annoying. > > I'm using Mavericks. > > Thanks, > Brandon > > -- > 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.