Hi, An acquaintence of mine is also a new Mac User, and he has just asked me if I could help. Well I couldn't, and so I am putting it to the list. Somehow he has turned off speech. The Mac boots up and says that Voice Over is on, and then says that speech is off. He then gets silence. He has obviously pressed a key combination unwittingly that has switched it off. Can you let me know how he can switch speech back on please? Thanks Paul Nugent > > 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 >