[audacity4blind] Re: how to go to a specific time

  • From: Andrew Downie <access_tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 17:22:24 +1100

Hi again John. After all my equivocating, here is the definitive answer, at least as far as Audacity v2.1.0 on a Mac running OS10.


When I press left bracket ([) VoiceOver announces the current position. Having entered a new time, pressing VO-right arrow (not left as I said yesterday) reports my entry. It sounds like you are not getting those responses. My copy of Audacity is somewhat dated and others will have a better idea than I do as to which more recent version will work.


If your version is at default settings, that may have an effect. Because I am a pedant I set time format to hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds. To change time settings:

Press the trusty left bracket.

2.  Hold down control key and click the mouse.

3.  Arrow up/down until you find an option you like and press Enter.


I think I gave correct info yesterday as to entering time. If set to hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds and you want to go to five minutes 30 seconds and 125 milliseconds:

Having pressed left bracket:

Press Home

Enter 000530125. Pressing enter should put you at that point, speech or no speech. But if you want to check where you are, having no speech would be a real pain.


If no joy, check with more regular Mac users as to which recent Audacity version works.



Andrew



In summary, if you get no speech when


On 1/02/2017 10:08 PM, John Covici wrote:

OK, thanks.

On Wed, 01 Feb 2017 05:35:50 -0500,
Andrew Downie wrote:
No, you definitely do not have to interact with the text.  My
dodgy memory is that VO-left arrow will report what you have
written, but will try to remember to check it out tomorrow.


Andrew


On 1/02/2017 7:50 PM, John Covici wrote:
I will try that and see what happens.

Thanks for the hint.  I wish vo would read as you type, but maybe this
will do.  Do I have to  interact with the text to do this?

On Wed, 01 Feb 2017 01:02:43 -0500,
Andrew Downie wrote:
One out of two is not good.  I forgot to check the Mac today but
did find my earlier post on this issue.  See if the following
helps John.  I will try to refresh my brain on some finer points
tomorrow.  Meanwhile, here is an excerpt from what I wrote late
last year:


I made a breakthrough today.  Having pressed one of the brackets,
pressing Home fixes the issue I noted yesterday of not knowing
where the cursor had landed.  The following example assumes you
are as fussy as me and have set to hours, minutes, seconds and
milliseconds, but adjust according to your setup.

Let's assume you want to set the cursor at 3 minutes, seven
seconds and 351 milliseconds.

1.  Press left bracket ([)

2. Press Home (on the Macbook Air Function-shift-Command-left does the job)

3. Write 000307351 and press Enter

You will be placed back on the audio track.  As David said,
VoiceOver commands can be used to read the value before you press
Enter.  That becomes important if you want to make very small
adjustments, as you will need to know current settings before
making an adjustment.


Andrew

On 31/01/2017 9:18 PM, John Covici wrote:
Well, I did try that, but I could not get vo to read things
consistently and I could never be sure of what I was typing.  If I
interacted with the text, I get nothing.  Am I missing something?

On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 05:09:38 -0500,
Andrew Downie wrote:
I stoked up a Mac a few weeks ago when someone else was having a
similar issue.  Unfortunately, I have deleted my pearls of
wisdom.


I will try to remember to check again tomorrow.  Meanwhile,
exactly what you enter will depend on the time format you have
set.  If I remember correctly, pressing Home is the first
step. Then, if you want to go to 5 minutes and 5 seconds enter
00:05:05.00 assuming you have set time to hours, minutes, seconds
and hundreds of seconds.  I am trying, without success, to
remember how to set time format on the Mac.  I do remember that
getting VoiceOver to read what you have entered requires a bit of
digital gymnastics.


Let me know if you make no progress.



Andrew




On 31/01/2017 8:02 PM, John Covici wrote:
However, I am on a Mac and could not get this to work.

On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:04:43 -0500,
Liu Kai wrote:
on a windows system if you push the left bracket key while
playback is stopped, it brings up the time diologue where you can
type in a time to go to. and when you hit enter on it, it plays
from that time.





-----Original Message----- From: John Covici
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 10:54 PM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: how to go to a specific time

I want to enter the time numerically because I know about what time I
want and it may be a long file.

On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 18:30:39 -0500,
Liu Kai wrote:
use the  space bar to stop play back, then hit the left bracket
and it would bring it up.




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-----Original Message----- From: John Covici
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 7:20 PM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] how to go to a specific time

Hi.  I am using audacity on my Macbook pro using voiceover and I would
like to know how to go to a specific time entering it numerically.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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