RE: Alexa, Play Some Music: All the Alexa Music Commands

pretty nice stuff! Best, Leo Bado "Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." – Elbert Hubbard From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Brett Lewis Sent: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 8:41 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject:

Re: google meet invitation link not working

well, definitely it's possible, I'll see during my next meeting how it goes Leo Bado “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” ― haruki murakami, On 9/23/2020 1:56 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Can it be that Safari has been updated? I guess that might be something to consider

Re: google meet invitation link not working

yeah, next time I'll do it and see how that goes... but still, this is pretty weird because I had a meeting last saturday and everything went OK, this problem started yesterday... Leo Bado “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” ― haruki murakami, On 9/22/2020 7:30 AM, Anders Hol

google meet invitation link not working

and my windows pc computer, I tried opening the link from those devices and for my surprise, I didn’t experience any problem. I don’t want this happening to me since I love to be able to connect to these meetings from my mac. Has someone had this happening and how you solve it? -- Leo Bado

Re: Microsoft Edge on the Mac

typing. Fully respecting individual choices, speaking personally, why should I apply  one voice for banking and another for reading e-mail? Kare On Sat, 27 Jun 2020, Leo Bado wrote: I find neural voices far more natural when reading large articles. For me everything is better, intonation

Re: Microsoft Edge on the Mac

Brad - On Jun 27, 2020, at 13:15, Leo Bado wrote:  well, yes, I tried it out some weeks ago and it worked just fine; however, I was expecting that the neural voices worked on the mac as well, but sadly, they don't... and for me this feature it's very important since I usually read

Re: Microsoft Edge on the Mac

well, yes, I tried it out some weeks ago and it worked just fine; however, I was expecting that the neural voices worked on the mac as well, but sadly, they don't... and for me this feature it's very important since I usually read articles on internet. I don't know if those voices are working o

Re: Pages and custom template

eopen Pages and all should be well. This works for me under Mojave, and for my husband under Catalina. Cheers, Anne On 19 May 2020, at 12:54, Leo Bado <mailto:leobado1...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi everyone, For some time I haven’t used pages, but I noticed it got updated several wee

Pages and custom template

Hi everyone, For some time I haven’t used pages, but I noticed it got updated several weeks ago. During these days I opened the app to jot down a few instructions, and I came across with a pesky issue. Pages doesn’t open the custom template that I’ve been using for long time as my default tem

Re: What's App on the Mac.

Hi, I've never used Whatsapp on the mac, however, some weeks ago I decided to give it a try but the experience was more than an inconvenience. Today, jus about an hour ago, I heard someone on a Whatsapp group that the latest  update has just come out, and it'has been to some degree enhanced fro

Bibliography on pages, accesible?

27;ve seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All these moments will be lost in time. Like tears in rain." Leo Bado -- The following information is important for all members of

keyboard shorcut to add and list bookmarks on pages

Gate. All these moments will be lost in time. Like tears in rain." Leo Bado -- 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 inapprop

Re: Voice Over and annotations in pages.

Gate. All these moments will be lost in time. Like tears in rain." Leo Bado El 03/06/2019 a las 2:16, Julie Rattray escribió: Hi, Never tried turning them off because I was so glad when they started to be read out On 1 Jun 2019, at 15:23, Leo Bado <mailto:leobado1...@gmail.com>

Re: Voice Over and annotations in pages.

All these moments will be lost in time. Like tears in rain." Leo Bado El 03/06/2019 a las 2:33, Anne Robertson escribió: Hello Leo, What I do when reading through a translation with change tracking on, is to select all and paste into a TextEdit document. That way, I can read through the

Voice Over and annotations in pages.

eams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All these moments will be lost in time. Like tears in rain." Leo Bado -- 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

Re: autocorrection on pages?

ok thanks for your feedback Julie. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All these moments will be lost in time. Like tears in rain." Leo Bado El 16

autocorrection on pages?

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Re: Text and source code editors for Mac OS - again

Hi, have yu haird about Byword? I don't know      if it would work for you though... but it claims to - have Extensive VoiceOver  api support for visual impaired users, you can have a look on this link> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/byword/id420212497?mt=12 Leo Bado El 09/05/2019

Re: Mac OS Manuals

I would suggest to read the entire section about voice over on apple support web site.  Just google it. Leo Bado El 08/05/2019 a las 9:33, B G escribió: While I scour the web for books and articles on Mac OS, was wondering if the list had any good urls and or titles to recommend. I am a total

Re: Switching among documents on pages?

Guys, actually I got this problem solved yesterday, and yes,  command plus accent switches between documents, however, in my case accent key is exactly above of tab key, so I don't know exactly what is my keyboard distribution. Leo Bado El 02/05/2019 a las 11:58, 'Andrew Lam

Re: Switching among documents on pages?

Hi, no... I just wanted to change from one document to another  when I'm working on pages. but thanks. Leo Bado El 02/05/2019 a las 2:48, Simon Fogarty escribió: I Eo, You don’t mean the ctrl tab keypress which would normally move between different tabs for something like a web br

Re: Switching among documents on pages?

I found the problem, it Doesn't work when window is in full-screen.  So, now is working perfectly as it should, what can I say, my mistake. thank you Tim. thank you Tim. Leo Bado El 01/05/2019 a las 14:32, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries escribió: Hi, I just tested it w

Re: Switching among documents on pages?

other. Leo Bado El 01/05/2019 a las 13:34, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries escribió: Hi, On North American keyboards, the tilde is to the left of the number 1 in the number row.  Like Julie mentioned, you would need to press shift to get it when typing.  For the change window comma

Switching among documents on pages?

ard. So, what should I do to do what I want?  create a shorcut? modify a particular shorcut? I'm using a macbook pro late 2013. Thanks for any help. -- Leo Bado -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns

Reading punctuation with a different voice in pages?

precise information or or any information closely related to my question. -- Leo Bado -- 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 po

Re: mars edit app?

hi again, for further information visit the developer's official web site at https://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/ hth Leo Bado El 27/12/2018 a las 18:25, Shirley Healy escribió: Ok thanks! I'll have a look! How much does it cost after the trial period? shirley - Origin

Re: mars edit app?

there is a trial period, you can look for a podcast on applevis as well so you can get an idea, some shortcuts have changed since the podcast version was released though. Leo Bado El 27/12/2018 a las 18:05, Shirley Healy escribió: Is it free or payed? I will download it then! I dont have my

Re: anyone who had already tryed word 2019?

hum, thanks for your opinion. Leo Bado El 16/11/2018 a las 0:36, Simon Fogarty escribió: Honestly, All they have done is change the version number, There is bugger all difference between 2016 and 2019 Infact if you have both check the version num ers and they really aren't that diff

anyone who had already tryed word 2019?

Hi everyone, I'm just wondering if there are some improvements when it comes of accesibility for word 2019? anyone who had try it out? thoughts? -- Leo Bado -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns

Re: Launching apps via spotlight on Mac has stopped working in High Sierra

same, jus letting you know. Leo Bado El 04/11/2018 a las 12:09, Andrew Lamanche escribió: Ah, Thanks, Eric, very kind, I shall try this out immediately. Very grateful. Andrew On Nov 4, 2018, at 5:19 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: Andrew, Given the hit or miss nature of the crashes, it’s most likely in

Re: System voice doesn't say current time anymore...

to do. thanks. Leo Bado El 03/10/2018 a las 22:18, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries escribió: Hi, Your reasoning for the lack of speech sounds right to me.  From what I understand, there's no way of individually fixing that issue.  I believe that you need to reset the list of even

Re: System voice doesn't say current time anymore...

Hi, following your instructions is working again.  Thank you Tim. Leo Bado El 03/10/2018 a las 22:18, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries escribió: Hi, Your reasoning for the lack of speech sounds right to me.  From what I understand, there's no way of individually fixing

System voice doesn't say current time anymore...

to Mojave, and I believe it might be because when a window notification prompted me asking to allow some scrypt or something like that I didn’t allow the action.I totally misunderstood the message. How can I fix this? Thank you guys! -- Leo Bado -- The following information is important for

Re: How To Set a VoiceOver Activity for The Notification Center In Mac OS Mojave

awesome! I just did it and totally love it. thanks for sharing... Leo Bado El 27/09/2018 a las 19:29, M. Taylor escribió: Hello Everyone, As the following information works beautifully in Mac OS Mojave, I thought I would post it, yet again, this year. The purpose of the steps, below, is so

Re: Voiceover freezing in Mojave

hum, it doesn't happen to me either... Leo Bado El 27/09/2018 a las 23:54, 'Shawn Krasniuk' via MacVisionaries escribió: I'm not getting that here and I've been beta testing mojave ever since it came out for developers. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 28, 2018

I love Mojave, Alex is back!

hey listers, I stested Alex voice for making an audiobook, is working again with send tu iTunes as a spoken track, I only converted a 2 page document but it is perfect, it didn't crash out as it used to do before Mojave and after Sierra. -- Leo Bado -- The following informati

ADD to iTunes as a spoken track and Alex voice.

Hi everyone, Now that the update to mohave  is getting closer and closer I wonder if the Alex voice can be use with the service send to iTunes as a spoken track? did anyone try this out? -- Leo Bado -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If

Re: Reading.

format though.Epub, mobi, docx, rtf and txt are perfectly readable. Leo Bado El 09/09/2018 a las 12:52, 'Devin Prater' via MacVisionaries escribió: If you've successfully read more than a few pages, on iBooks for Mac, at a time, as in continuous reading of a whole novel, or at le

Re: Reading.

eader Leo Bado El 08/09/2018 a las 13:00, 'Devin Prater' via MacVisionaries escribió: Look into DocuScan, a Serotech product, the same folks that made System Access on Windows. Docuscan is for Windows and Mac. The link is: http://www.serotek.com/docuscanplus Devin Prater Assis

shortcut key to go to a specific page?

Hello, what would be the shorcut key to go to a specific page on pages? or a any other similar option...   I don't find too much handy to surf through thumbnail bar navigation or going forward page by page using voice over commands. Thanks for any help. -- Leo Bado -- The foll

Re: Mac OS Start up Chimes

really curious to find tweaks and tricks that are not in any written manual. Just my thoughts. Leo Bado El 01/09/2018 a las 19:21, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries escribió: Hi Andrew, I'll be curious about your experiences. I think I'll start taking a more serious lo

Re: Mac OS Start up Chimes

I don't need a big screen either, and surely I don't need three cameras... Leo Bado El 31/08/2018 a las 19:46, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries escribió: You know, I don't know about anyone else, but I'm feeling frustrated with Apple. I was really hoping th

spotlight doesn't work!

apparently works in association with spotlight and again, nothing. any idea? -- Leo Bado -- 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 inappr

Re: Read comments and tracking changes in a word document

Thank you Donna it was driving me crazy. Leo Bado El 10/08/2018 a las 6:46, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries escribió: Here is Anne Robertson's description of how to do this. Takes some getting used to, but it works once you get it sorted out. When reading through the docu

Read comments and tracking changes in a word document

Hi again listers, How do I read comments and track changes in office 2016 with voice over? I'm on high sierra here. thanks for any info. -- Leo Bado -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns abou

Re: A problem downloading a voice.

exactly! Leo Bado El 07/08/2018 a las 5:17, Jonathan C. Cohn escribió: So, specifically Susan that you’re having problems with, and not voices in general? Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn On Aug 6, 2018, at 9:04 PM, Leo Bado <mailto:leobado1...@gmail.com>> wrote: Yes, I’m perfectl

Re: A problem downloading a voice.

successed. I select the check box for Susan and no matter what I do it always says; Will be downloaded but nothing happens. pretty weird huh? Leo Bado El 06/08/2018 a las 14:31, Jonathan Cohn escribió: Are you able to successfully download apps in the Mac App store? If I remember correctly

Re: A problem downloading a voice.

you are right, I had tryed many things and nothing. I wonder is may be a terminal command could help... Leo Bado El 06/08/2018 a las 3:56, 'Shawn Krasniuk' via MacVisionaries escribió: Hi. Closing the Voiceover utility or turning it off makes no difference. These voices aren'

Re: A problem downloading a voice.

no, My mac is connected to internet.  I have a good connection but for some reason I just cann't download this voice. Leo Bado El 02/08/2018 a las 9:54, Pavel Yefetov escribió: you can connect mac to internet and,trai agaien среда, 1 августа 2018 г., 2:52:15 UTC+3 пользователь Leo

A problem downloading a voice.

specific voice. What can I do? -- Leo Bado -- 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 moder

Radio app on mac?

Hi, I'm searching for a radio app to use on my mac. It does not matter   how much does it cost but I want it to be accesible and with a bonch of radio stations easy to surface through. -- Leo Bado -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list

Re: audiobooks? best player for Mac.

yeah just what I needed, many thanks Jeff Leo Bado El 10/07/2018 a las 7:11, jeff `greene escribió: Hi Leo, Try VLC Media player, you can get it from videolan.org. It has a percentage slider that is accessible with voiceover. HTH Jeff On 7/10/18, Oriol Gómez wrote: Hi. Why don't yo

Re: audiobooks? best player for Mac.

because I didn't know vlc allowed this feature... lol now I know, thank you. Leo Bado El 10/07/2018 a las 6:36, Oriol Gómez escribió: Hi. Why don't you use vlc or cog? VLC saves the playback position if you quit the program so it resumes whenn you open the file again from finder e

Re: audiobooks? best player for Mac.

I read 10 12 or 15 hours audiobooks, doesn't seem like a very good option. is unbelieveable, the most simple things to do in windows are really complicated on Mac. Leo Bado El 10/07/2018 a las 3:37, Nektarios Mallas escribió: Hi there. I haven’ t done this for quite some time, bu

audiobooks? best player for Mac.

hi, how do you guys listen to audiobooks on Mac? itunes is ok but I can not figure out how to rewind or forward using the percentage slider, it seems inaccesible. is this happenning just to me? suggestions about this regard or info about  any other app will be appreciated. -- Leo Bado

Re: About Speech Central for Mac

thank you Chuck, very helpful indeed. Leo Bado El 05/07/2018 a las 13:41, CHUCK REICHEL escribió: Hi guys, Heres how to change the rate for send to itunes as a spoken track, on the mac; To change the reading rate you need to insert an embedded command specifying the rate at the beginning

Re: About Speech Central for Mac

very instructive Jonathan thanks for replying. Leo Bado El 05/07/2018 a las 9:36, Jonathan Cohn escribió: The add selected text to iTunes as a spoken track is a Automator service located in: /System/Library/services/ You could copy that file to your Library/services folder and adjust some

About Speech Central for Mac

to control the file size when using speech central? -- Leo Bado -- 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 contac

Re: Asking for audio recorders.

hi Jürgen, I guess you are right.  I only need to rècord and cut and paste. Nothng fanzy.  That particular app you recommended is not in the appstore for my country. Leo Bado El 21/06/2018 a las 6:53, Jürgen Fleger escribió: Hi Leo, „easy to use“ seems to me to be a matter of

Asking for audio recorders.

hi listers, what do you guys use for audio recording? I am looking for a simple audio recorder, easy to use audioclips and may be with few options to editing sound. -- Leo Bado -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any

Re: Siri voices for voice over on Mac?

ok thank you both. Leo Bado El 13/05/2018 a las 21:50, Shawn Krasniuk escribió: Yeah as Matt said there's no way to use the new Siri voices on the Mac. Although I'm really looking forward to WWDC on June 4. Hopefully one of the new features of the next macOS whether it be 10

Siri voices for voice over on Mac?

this even possible? using Macbook pro with High Sierra. Thanks guys for any info. -- Leo Bado -- 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'

key strockes for mail app on Mac?

hi, does someone can be very kind and let me know of all the useful key strokes for the mail app? I'm really struggleing here and I need to know all related to the mail app for college. thanks to any kind soul. -- Leo Bado -- The following information is important for all members o

Re: Does prolong use of the screen curtain have negative effects?

I've been using this feature for years and always take photos and even videos and never noticed a thing, nobody had told me they notice anything weird with my videos and photos. Leo Bado El 2/5/2018 a las 03:29, Simon Fogarty escribió: I have the curtain on all the time and I can'

Re: OCR app for mac?

ok thank you both for replying. Leo Bado El 26/4/2018 a las 13:31, E.T. escribió:    We all were at some point, Leo.    Free? No. Paid? Yes. Abbyy FineReader Pro. That is, if you want a good app. From E.T.'s Keyboard...    ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been vi

OCR app for mac?

hi, please whatever your answer might be take this in count, I am a new mac user. ok, having said that, does anyone know about an good OCR program accesible and free? thanks. -- Leo Bado -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have

Best ebook reader app and question about ibooks.

macbook? epub, pdf txt, etc. thanks for any suggestion or tip. Leo Bado -- 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, p

Re: add to itunes as a spoken track

ok thanks. Leo Bado El 8/4/2018 a las 14:04, Jonathan Cohn escribió: Hello Leo, I have rarely used this functionality I do know that it is just an AppleScript that essentially uses the "speak" command which is also available in the UNIX shell I suggest you try it in the term

add to itunes as a spoken track

ntire book, however I red somewhere this is a bug hapenning on high sierra with Alex's voice. I'd want some clarification here and thanks for any info. -- Leo Bado -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns

Re: Export a pages document to another format

laughing out loud laughing out loud, thank you Alex and Tim, what a fool, I had seen that menu before but never occured to me, in fact, that it  worked for any app. so all I can do if making fun of me, lol Leo Bado El 5/4/2018 a las 08:56, Tim Kilburn escribió: Leo, To add to Alex&#

Export a pages document to another format

r menu. I need help here please. I'm using latest version of macos high sierra and just downloaded pages few days ago. -- Leo Bado -- 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

Re: Word Processing on the mac

yes, is me, Leo. Thank you Jonathan, I think I'm going to make a new thread asking and specifying my question. Leo Bado El 4/4/2018 a las 16:04, Jonathan Cohn escribió: Hello Leo, I believe you are the one who just introduced yourself? The Macintosh has several commands in the file

Re: Word Processing on the mac

hi, this topic interests me, I really want to know how to use pages and for this matter I want to create a document and then export it to .doc but I can’t find the file tab to do this, most likely I’m going on the wrong way and need some help here. Leo Bado El 4/4/2018 a las 06:36, Caitlyn

Introducing to myself

s talk on here and ask in case I'd need to fill the blanks, of course. oh yes, my name is Leo. nice to meet you all of you guys. -- Leo Bado -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running o