The problem with Nuance voices seems to be a lot better in Mountain Lion. When you press backspace to delete something it talks lower,, but I think this must be intentional. I've also found the Mac to be working a lot better since upgrading to Mountain Lion. I've never had a safari busy message since upgrading.
On 30/07/2012, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com> wrote: > Hi, > Go to program uppdate under the Apple menu. Hit vo+space bar on that choise. > Now, the app store will launch giving you the page with updates of apps on. > Go to the button that says "update all" and hit vo+space bar on it now a > dialog should pop up asking for apple id and password. The Apple id text box > is usually pre populated with your email address so go to the password field > and type in your password and hit the button that says "log in". Now the > download should begin. > If you want to know what things you will be updated, before doing the above > steps, vo+right arrow a couple times until you encounter a list where the > apps to be update are stored. Here you can see the new versions of the apps > and if you arrow further right with vo+right arrow, you will find > descriptions of what's new in this version. > HTH > /Krister > > 29 jul 2012 kl. 13:32 skrev Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com>: > >> Hi, >> The nuance issues are indeed fixed, keep in mind though that after >> installing Mountain Lion, you have to go to the program update and look >> for new updates. When you do, you will find a bunch of new voices amongst >> other things. Just update everything and you'll be good to go. All the >> bugs in the Swedish voice, including issues with how it pronounced certain >> characters when typing with typing echo set to characters or when reading >> character by character are gone and so are the pitch issues. Only time the >> voices actually change pitch is when you delete a character or when you >> press a character with the shift key helld down. >> Apple has indeed done a great job with this release. The one thing i wish >> for is for dictation to support scandinavian languages. I hope it will >> happen but i highly doubt it, just look at Siri on the IPhone which >> supports many languages just not Swedish, Norwegean and other scandinavian >> languages. >> /Krister >> >> 26 jul 2012 kl. 04:22 skrev Mike Arrigo <n0...@charter.net>: >> >>> I was hoping they fixed the nuance voice issues. Does anyone know if >>> there is a key stroke to access the notification center? For example, you >>> can press control+f8 for the status menus, control+F2 for the menu bar, >>> etc. Is there a keystroke for notifications? >>> On Jul 25, 2012, at 8:57 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: >>> >>>> Hey guys. I was thinking of using the Siri dictation feature to write >>>> this message, but after trying to send a message to Kimsan and seeing >>>> that it entered something that I didn't say, I figured I'd write this >>>> myself. So with that being said, I must say that Apple did a freaking >>>> awesome job with Mountain Lion. My favorite features so far have been >>>> the Siri dictation, even though it hears what it wants to hear >>>> sometimes, the ability to update more than one App in the App store, and >>>> yes, the ability to use some third party Apps that weren't accessible to >>>> us in the past. Now I can use Menuweather, the app that I complained >>>> that wasn't accessible a few months ago, and change whatever settings I >>>> need. Also, for Infovox Ivox 3 users, your voices will continue to work. >>>> You don't need to download any patches or anything. >>>> I did notice a couple of bugs though. The first one is something that >>>> this list has talked about when Lion first launched, and that is the >>>> booting up time. For me, when I came home from work and booted up my >>>> machine, I pretty much had to wait for about 2-3 minutes before >>>> Voiceover started talking. Also, in both Lion and Snow Leopard, both >>>> Adium and Skype launched right away after startup. In Mountain Lion, It >>>> takes a minute for both apps to launch. These aren't deal breakers >>>> though, just minor hinderances. As for the Nuance voices, I'm not gonna >>>> even bother using them with Voiceover if they're still making those >>>> stupid pitch changes. Why would I if I have Tracy from Acapela? >>>> Anyway, all in all, this is a fantastic upgrade, better than Lion in my >>>> opinion. 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