Are the two voices you hear when you hit keys like control the same voice? By
that I mean are you getting an echo of your Samantha voice, or is it a
different voice like Alex?There are settings which allow features to be read by
the system voice. For example when I’m in a Zoom session the notifications
about participants joining are read out by the system voice, and are spoken
regardless of what Voiceover is doing, so I get two voices at the same time.
If this is the case, you’ll need to change system voice notifications. This is
because speech output is available for people not using Voiceover, so you need
to turn it on and off separately.
Go to system preferences, open accessibility.
Interact with the features table.
In the features table, go to spoken content, not voiceover.
Stop interacting with the features table.
VO arrow over to the options, you’ll find check boxes for speak announcements,
speak items under the pointer etc.
In the options there is an item for speak typing feedback, uncheck this and
your system voice should stop talking while you type.
You can then go to the voiceover utility and set your typing feedback so that
it is controlled with Voiceover, not the system voice.
Hope this helps.
Ian
On Dec 3, 2020, at 10:15 AM, FIOGKOS (Redacted sender "fiogkos" for DMARC)
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Calvin, thank you so much for helping me. I saw your message late last
night but I was too tired to go investigate. This morning I sat at the Mac
and did as you said. Unfortunately it would not give me an edit button for
the Greek language but it definitely did give me an edit button for the
English. I changed everything in there to the voice that I want, my choice is
Samantha. I also went into the verbosity settings and changed some things
there.
One of the things I changed in the verbosity was when typing I changed it to
do nothing. Even though in my mind that doesn’t make sense that didsolve the
problem of hearing 2 voices when I type. Now when I type I only hear one
voice. This is good. The only thing I was not able to solve is that when I
hit the control key I still hear two voices so if I want to hit control
option command and the arrow keys to choose words or sentences or lines etc.
I hear the control key being spoken by two voices, and the rest of the keys
are spoken by one voice. Any ideas how to stop to voices from saying control?
This is the most help I have gotten to solve my problem and I am extremely
grateful. Thank you so so much from the bottom of my heart.
Regards Zoe
God the father chose her
God the sun dwelt in her
God the spirit overshadowed her
Most holy mother of God save us through your intercessions
@FiogkosZoe
Love Isn't butterflies in your stomach, love is the heart beat you feel when
he's late
On Dec 2, 2020, at 8:52 PM, Kelvin Falconer <tusciafalconer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Not sure what is happening, you say you hear two different voices at the
same time.
I do think there is a straight-forward reason for this though.
As well as the speech and voices in accessibility you also have control and
choices in the voice over utility, press vo + f8 to open.
Go into the speech category and tick voices.
Go into the customise language list table.
click on edit.
click on additional voice options.
Here you have options for deffault voices for content, status, type,
attributes and voice over menu.
I would explore here, what voice is selected for each category, reduce
volume on one of them and see if one of the two voices you are getting goes
lower.
If so, this may give some indication as to what is happening.
K.
On 3/12/2020, at 1:21 PM, FIOGKOS (Redacted sender "fiogkos" for DMARC)
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi everybody, hope you’re doing well. Just to remind everybody I am a
beginner on the Mac. I have asked this question on a few other lists and
nobody seems to know what the problem is. I was told to call Apple
accessibility but I thought I would ask you guys as well just in case I get
lucky and somebody knows how to solve this.
The problem started when I upgraded to Catalina.
I am bilingual and need to use the Greek voice called Melina on the Mac.
I soon realized I have two problems, one the Greek voice doesn’t work
properly on the Mac and cannot read the Greek. I don’t think anybody on any
list can do anything about that. I think I do need to call apple
accessibility for that issue. My main problem is that I hear two voices
speaking at the same time. I went into system
preferences/accessibility/speech and unchecked all boxes. I also unchecked
all the voices. The Mac asked me if I want to delete the voices or keep
them. I chose to keep them. However everything is unchecked But I still
hear two voices. If I press control option command shift and the arrow keys
and choose Alex for example as my main voice over voice, when I hit the
modifier keys I hear Samantha‘s voice and when I hit a letter on the
keyboard I hear Alex‘s voice. If IM in text edit and I begin to type, I
hear both Samantha and Alex. No one seems to know how to solve this. Any
ideas?
Regards Zoe
God the father chose her
God the sun dwelt in her
God the spirit overshadowed her
Most holy mother of God save us through your intercessions
@FiogkosZoe
Love Isn't butterflies in your stomach, love is the heart beat you feel
when he's late
On Dec 1, 2020, at 1:55 PM, Keith Reedy <wa9dro@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:wa9dro@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Ian,
It sounds like you may have been invaded. Turn off all of your automatic
updates and run Clean my mac and for crying out loud shut down Google
drive.
IMHO.
Keith Reedy
On Dec 1, 2020, at 1:37 PM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Yup, I did the upgrade, and things were just fine for a few days, then
this happened. Right now I’m working on the premis that my maxed out
google drive is trying to share folders with my hard drive even though I
told it not too. It may have been trying this before I made the change,
and still trying to accomplish it’s task before it lets the new settings
take effect.
Ian
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On Dec 1, 2020, at 10:42 AM, Kelvin Falconer
<tusciafalconer@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:tusciafalconer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Did you do the upgrade to Big Sur ?
K.
On 2/12/2020, at 6:17 AM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Last night I set my Mac to move my documents and desktop to ICloud, it
had the space and I figured it would give me the 6.44 Gb to get an
IMovie work project done. When I went to seleep it was happily chugging
away on the sync. This morning the 6.44 Gb is indeed in ICloud, but the
mysterious filling of the hard drive continues. In system report
nothing except documents is growing, it is at 53 Gb, but when I look at
the files and resources in documents within system report it
S only the 6.44 I expected to be there.
When I go to Finder and check a status bar, like in the downloads
folder, it says I
M down to 20 Mb, and there is the click sound that says something is
happening, like a large chunk of data being copied or moved, that click
sound.
I
M getting a little desperate here, I can
T open my email on my Mac, can
T finish off that IMovie work project.
As a reminder, I had a whole bunch of hard drive space because I moved
a bunch of stuff off to upgrade Mac OS, it was there for a couple of
days and then yesterday it filled up on me.
Any suggestions? I
Ve followed all the optimize storage recommendations I found on line
and in the system report application.
Ian
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