[macvoiceover] Re: How To: speed up Voiceover beyond 100
- From: Jacob Schmude <j.schmude@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:09:54 -0500
Hi Travis
I was never eable to get this to work, which is why I described the
plist method. I'm not sure what's different about my setup, but
something prevents this from working. I most certainly remember when
you described it, but for some reason VO just won't cooperate when
trying to do this, in fact I just tried it again to no effect. And as
for bugs... well I'd call not having access to the full range of
speeds the real bug here, but anyway...
My $0.02.
On Jan 16, 2009, at 16:17, Travis Siegel wrote:
You can do this without mucking about with plist files.
I have described this process before, but since folks are asking
again, I (reluctantly) describe the process again, still hoping that
apple does not change things to prevent this from working.
1. First, go into your vo utility, select the speech rate option.
Position the vo cursor on the rate setting (interact with it to make
it easier to work with, though this isn't strictly necessary)
2. Next, use command-option-control-down arrow to set your speech
rate to something less than 100 percent (this assumes you've already
set the selection to speed, which can be done by command-option-
control-left/right arrows)
3. Now, use the up arrow (just up arrow, not vo-up arrow) to put the
speed of vo back to 100 percent in the vo utility.
Now, this is the normal 100 percent speed of voiceover, but we're
not done yet.
4. Now, use the command-option-control-up arrow key combination) to
put voiceover speed up to 100 percent again (it remains at the speed
you left it at in step 2)
This will overdrive your speech speed, and allow use of voices at
greater than 100 percent.
For me personally, I use fred for my system voice, and set the speed
to 70 or 75 percent before maxing it again with the command-option-
ctrl-up arrow key combination. This gives me ideal speed for trying
to keep up with those seriously long compiles, or extremely long
parts of terminal scrolling. It still doesn't help in some cases,
but for the most part, it works to speak all the scrolling text
instead of getting cut off by neew text coming across.
Of course, much beyond 70 percent (before increasing the speed)
causes fred to crash (sometimes rather spectacularly), so higher
rates are not recommended.
Anyhow, there's the process, try not to break too much, and let's
hope apple doesn't fix that particular bug, as it would prevent such
speed manipulations.
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