[muglo] Re: Random Voice
- From: Bob McDaniel <mcdaniel@xxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:05:39 -0800
Thanks to you and Leith for your help with my highlighting problem. Much
appreciated.
Bob
Eric Dunbar wrote:
>That's quite amusing. What apps are you running when this happens?
>
>
Running Netscape 7.2, MS Word X, Acrobat Reader 7.0, Canvas 9.0.4,
Process Viewer
That's what was running recently. Usually I'd say that only Netscape and
Word would be running. The voice has been around for several months.
Might add that I reinstalled my system (10.2.8) about 5 or so days ago
and the voice just re-emerged today.
>Check out System Preferences:Speech. Does it look like any settings
>are turned on in that preferences pane? If so, turn them off. It may
>be that you have speech recognition turned on and, that either the OS
>occasionally asks you for feedback, or one of your apps is trying to
>be cute b/c you have speech turned on (or, maybe one of your apps is
>simply being cute).
>
>
Speech recognition is Off.
>Are you running anything out of the ordinary (ordinary =3D a web
>browser, e-mailer, Microsoft Office apps, Apple's iApps)?
>
>Eric.
>
>On 12/7/05, Bob McDaniel <mcdaniel@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>>At random times a voice comes up on my eMac saying "Hello" or "Say
>>something". It seems harmless and is not a frequent event.
>>
>>Does anyone know where on my computer I might find the source code of
>>this voice so I can delete it? I have used the utility "Process Viewer"
>>to see what's running but, of course, I really don't know what I'm
>>looking for!
>>
>>Bob
>>
>>
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