The voice you are hearing can be eliminated by going to System Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content, navigating to the Speaking Volume slider, and reducing the volume to Zero.
HTH. - Brad - On Apr 7, 2023, at 16:43, radiof...@gmail.com <radiofore...@gmail.com> wrote: Well I guess I am happy to finally know I am not the only one who is fed up with this. I have a meeting with Zoom next week where this issue will be front and center. As for separate audio sources, I have tried all kinds of experiments with using additional sound cards etc and no luck. I have now reduced the volume on the system voice but that means it isn't available when I do want it. You are correct, the control key does nothing to stop this. Jean On Friday, April 7, 2023 at 1:30:41 AM UTC-7 jan...@rednote.net wrote: > I'm also hearing the announcements Catherine mentions. I don't believe > they're coming through VoiceOver, however. Two observations: > > 1.) For me they come through a different audio device than VoiceOver > uses. > > 2.) Tapping Ctrl while a name is being announced has no effect > whatsoever. It does not silence speech. > > So, I'm surmissing these are somehow being generated outside of > VoiceOver itself. Am I wrong? Might this be a feature/bug request to > Zoom? > > Disabling Chat isn't going to be an option in many of my Zoom calls. > It's a feature heavily used. > > Janina > > > Herbie Allen writes: > > Two things. First, make sure you are updated to the latest Zoom as that > > seems to have finally stopped the problem for me at least. The only other > > work around I have found is to turn off VO for a couple minutes and then > > turn it back on. You will hear announcements while it is off, but they > > should go away once back on. Also, unless your group uses it,, if you can > > get the admin to disable the chat feature in meetings, that will make all > > those announcements go away. They will find that option in the advanced > > meeting settings. > > > > > On Apr 5, 2023, at 13:18, 'Catherine Turner' via MacVisionaries > > > <macvisi...@googlegroups.com <>> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Please does anyone know whether/how it's possible to stop the system > > > voice on Mac announcing things like "Catherine has joined this > > > channel" when using zoom? I've gone into the preferences in zoom, > > > accessibility, screenreader and unticked everything, quit and > > > re-opened zoom and I'm still getting announcements all the time about > > > people having "joined this channel". It's really annoying and makes > > > zoom basically unusable on large group calls. 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