Hello,
I wonder if you have an open dialog that might be causing your issues. When 
your mac is on the desktop press voiceover plus F1 twice to bring up the 
application chooser. If you have a dialog box that is causing the issue this 
should let you get to it to close it.

Greg Wocher


> On Jan 7, 2025, at 10:18 AM, Bradford Snyder <wb...@swbell.net> wrote:
> 
> That’s interesting.
> I have 2 Macs, and neither one speaks anything when locked.
> I will keep thinking on this one.
> 
> - Brad -
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 7, 2025, at 08:25, joseph hodge <josephlho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This didn’t work. I still am hearing a sound like a bloop and Voiceover 
> saying activation every minute or so once it locks.
> 
>> On Jan 6, 2025, at 10:53 PM, Bradford Snyder <wb...@swbell.net> wrote:
>> 
>> This is an easy fix.
>> First, go to System Settings > Notifications.
>> Here you will find the following settings that you want to make sure are 
>> switched to Off.
>> 
>> 1.  Allow notifications when the display is sleeping.
>> 2.  Allow notifications when the screen is locked.
>> 
>> HTH.
>> 
>> - Brad -
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 6, 2025, at 20:02, joseph hodge <josephlho...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> This has happened for me for quite some time now. When on the lock screen or 
>> once the computer kind of is sleeping, but still playing audio voiceover 
>> continues to randomly wake up and say something. I've heard it too many 
>> times I should know what it says but honestly, I can't remember now. Is 
>> there a way to stop this so that when the computer locks voiceover stops 
>> saying anything until I hit a key?
>> 
>> Joe
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