Re: Never had so many problems with my Mac in almost 3 years

Hi Steve. Yes, I do have Mountain Lion installed but I don't have Growl use notification center instead of speaking because Voiceover reads only a part of what's going on with Facebook in terms of people changing status messages and stuff. I use Trillian which is the only app out there that read

Re: Never had so many problems with my Mac in almost 3 years

I don't know if you can upgrade your machine to Mountain Lion or not but with Mountain Lion, I just use the built-in system notification stuff and don't even have Growl installed. I have never used that app. As for Chrome vox, it may be the cdulprate here; it sounds like VO and the native Apple s

Re: Never had so many problems with my Mac in almost 3 years

Hi Wayne and Yuma. First, in the order of how my messages were read out to me, Wayne, I did the VO keys and hit plus and minus and nothing happens. I still hear punctuations like hyphens, quotes, and parentheses read out. Then I tried the chromevox keys, which are command and control, followed b

Re: Never had so many problems with my Mac in almost 3 years

Hi Shawn, I can't say anything for chromevox as i won't venture into having more than one screen reader on my mac. It guzzles ressources. Second, voice over tends to crash , freeze or get erratic when the system voice talks on top of the default voice. Say for instance you're reading a pdf, and

RE: Never had so many problems with my Mac in almost 3 years

s.com Subject: Re: Never had so many problems with my Mac in almost 3 years Hi Yuma. The punctuation issues aren't happening in Voiceover, they're happening in Chromevox, the screen reader for the Google Chrome browser. Also, my whole computer isn't crashing, it's just Voic

Re: Never had so many problems with my Mac in almost 3 years

Hi Yuma. The punctuation issues aren't happening in Voiceover, they're happening in Chromevox, the screen reader for the Google Chrome browser. Also, my whole computer isn't crashing, it's just Voiceover when people sign in and out of either Facebook or Skype and Growl tells me so when Voiceover

Re: Never had so many problems with my Mac in almost 3 years

Hi Shawn, For the pronounciation, open the voice over utility, go to verbosity, go to the text tab on the right, then in there you will find the setting. As for the crashes, you seem to have quite some add-ons everywhere that might cause the crashing. Depending on the system you have and the lo