Hi Russell, in verbossity, there should be a pop-up that gives you a choice as to what to do when deleting characters, just set this to nothing, and Alex will be his smiling self again. Verbossity is one of the new options in the voice over utility with vo f8, just first, go in to keyboard in system preferences and check the box that says use function keys as normal keys, if it isn't already checked. On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:56:45 -0600, Russell Solowoniuk wrote: Hi all, Since updating to SL, when typing in an email message, if I press the delete (backspace) key to delete the characters I just typed, Alex voice goes really really deep and it sounds like he's going to die! If he keeps this up, he may, with a bit of help from me! <grin> Has anyone experienced this? I tried unloading VO and reloading it, but this doesn't help. Any ideas? Please?? Thanks, Russell > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > Marty