Re: system voice irritation

2020-12-23 Thread jean parker
Hi Jonathan: This sounds like something I would like to explore with my particular use case scenario. Perhaps for the specifics we should take it off line for now? radiofore...@gmail.com Thanks, Jean > On 23 Dec 2020, at 8:34 am, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > My apologies for not answering you so

Re: system voice irritation

2020-12-23 Thread Jonathan Cohn
My apologies for not answering you sooner. If all you want to do is switch to a different application, that is very easy in VoiceOver. Just look at the keyboard commander for left-option M start mail. If you need more specifics then let me know. A AppleScript can combine two or more actions in one

Re: system voice irritation

2020-12-05 Thread jean parker
Jonathan: Would that turn on quicktime from anywhere? The problems isn’t really starting play but navigating from zoom to the video player. If quick time or whatever could be started from zoom that would make it possible to turn off voice over thereby eliminating the possibility of the system vo

Re: system voice irritation

2020-12-05 Thread Jonathan Cohn
For QuickTime, I am sure I could create an AppleScript that just tells quicktime to either toggle playing or start playing. I don't know if VLC accepts apple events, but at least you could create a automation that would tell VLC to open a file. In terminal this would be something close to: open

Re: system voice irritation

2020-12-03 Thread jean parker
Sometimes the screen share doesn’t go directly to vlc or quicktime though so it would be difficult to know where you are when command shifting around. I will do further experiments however. > On 3 Dec 2020, at 8:16 pm, Brad Snyder wrote: > > When I do a screen share on Zoom, I am usually play

Re: system voice irritation

2020-12-03 Thread Brad Snyder
When I do a screen share on Zoom, I am usually playing some kind of content using QuickTime Player, which I have cued-up and ready to play. As soon as I begin Zoom screen share, I turn off VoiceOver, and CMD + Tab to the QuickTime Player app, and hit the Spacebar to begin play. when the progra

Re: system voice irritation

2020-12-03 Thread jean parker
How do you keep track of where are? For example, when you share a video and you need to switch apps to get to the video player how do you know where you are if vo is off? Once you are in the app you can use hot keys or whatever. BTW, are you using Big Sur? I am having some issues, not really acc

Re: system voice irritation

2020-12-03 Thread Brad Snyder
I have never enabled the voice through, Accessibility > Speech, so I am not experiencing any issues with silencing speech during a Zoom Screen Share. When Screen Sharing, I turn off VoiceOver until I am done, and have been doing it this way for a long time with out any issue. - Brad - On Dec 3

Re: system voice irritation

2020-12-03 Thread jean parker
Hi: Yes, I read your message and followed the directions. No luck getting rid of it though. > On 3 Dec 2020, at 3:54 pm, Brad Snyder wrote: > > Routing VoiceOver to an external sound device or bluetooth headset, does not > resolve the issue of speech during a Zoom Screen Share, because the s

Re: system voice irritation

2020-12-03 Thread Brad Snyder
Routing VoiceOver to an external sound device or bluetooth headset, does not resolve the issue of speech during a Zoom Screen Share, because the system voice that has been enabled in Accessibility > Speech is not VoiceOver, and is not affected by rerouting VoiceOver. The issue can only be resolv

system voice irritation

2020-12-03 Thread radiof...@gmail.com
Hello All: I have been following the system voice thread with some interest. The fact that the system voice can not be turned off is a constant annoyance. I have reported this to Apple and asked for a feature request or whatever they call it. This is particularly problematic when doing screen sh