First of all, yes, the voices you can find at assistiveware.com are great. Just try using them for 30 days, and buy them if you like them. I would say the best way to switch to an other voice when you are in a website and want to read in an other language is to use vo command arrows. On Dec 22, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Mary Otten wrote: > Hi folks, > I just got my Mac Mini yesterday. Definitely going to be a learning > curve in there. Has anybody tried the high quality voices from > assistiveware and used them to read foreign language texts or web > pages? I think I read somewhere that it is possible to have different > voices speak different things, e.g. status messages and text could be > two different voices. I didn't see how to do that in the VO utility. > Saw a bunch of voices but no way to split up tasks so that, say one > voice would read system and status messages, while the other would read > text. And that, I imagine is what you'd want to do if you were reading > a foreign language web page. So, any hints would be most welcome. > > Mary > >> >> 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 >> > > 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 >