I would like to thank both of you for your feedback which, by the way, was helpful.
I would have gotten back to you earlier, but after updating my MacBook to the latest OS, I was surprised when I discovered that I was not receiving any messages in my Gmail account. Apparently, lots of people who use Gmail had this problem. Now that things are back to normal, I just wanted to thank you both for your feedback. Mike > On 04.04.2019, at 16:55, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > The basic answer is "Yes". What exactly do you do to manually change it to > Alex? There are normally three places to check. VO Utility under Speech, > the VO rotor and System Preferences under Accessibility, Speech. Fore the VO > rotor, press VO-cmd-shift-left or right to the Voices item, then > VO-cmd-shift-up or down through the choices. In the VO rotor, if > Automatically switch is enable, the voice will switch depending on what > accent the Mac feels that is required for the specific word. > > All that said, if you do wish to get rid of Daniel, go to System, Library, > Speech, Voices, and locate Daniel. Get rid of both Daniel and Daniel Compact > speech folders. It will require your finger-print or Admin password > depending on your Mac model. The caution is to not get rid of the stock > voices. So, if you wish to get rid of Daniel, only get rid of Daniel and > Daniel Compact. don't forget to empty your Trash. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Apple Teacher > (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Apr 4, 2019, at 06:51, Michael Busboom <mbusb...@gmail.com > <mailto:mbusb...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I just updated my MacBook Pro to version 10.14.4 today and encountered a > problem I had several updates ago. Although my preferred English voice is > Alex, Daniel keeps inserting itself into my work. Even when I manually > switch to Alex, my MacBook reverts to Daniel. > > Since I have had this problem before and find it particularly annoying, I am > wondering what would happen if I erased Daniel, a stock voice of the > operating system and any other English languages for that matter from my Mac. > Obviously, I wouldn’t attempt to erase Alex. > > I would appreciate feedback from others. > > Thank you. > > Mike > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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