Someone out there an Apple user?
Yesterday when I set up my macbook to use the industry standard sound editing program I must have hit some button or combo which set my macbook to "TALK" every time I do anything, pull down any menu, hit any key.....arghhhh, it's making me crazy. A computerized voice spells out everything I type...Help!!! How do I turn this preference off?
The second thing that happened is now when I click on something on my desktop, a big border appears around it...or when I click into a field on the scene (like signing in) a border appears the size of that box and then doesn't disappear..what did I do? Help???
LOL! Hey solitasolano, did you get it worked out? :)
So, your computer is talking to you? Kinda like Hal in 2001? That sounds pretty cool to me. LOL! :) Seriously, I'll try to help you. :)
From the Apple menu, select System Preferences... .
In System Preferences, from the View menu, select Speech.
From the Spoken User Interface tab, choose from the following options:
To have Talking Alerts speak a warning phrase before reading the text of dialog boxes, select the Speak the phrase: checkbox.
From the pull-down menu, you can choose what this phrase will be and add your own phrases. If you want Talking Alerts to speak only the warning phrase and not the text of dialog boxes, select this checkbox only.
To have Talking Alerts read the text of dialog boxes, select the Speak the alert text checkbox. If you don't want Talking Alerts to speak a warning phrase, select only this checkbox.
From the pull-down list next to "Talking Alerts voice:", select the voice you would like the computer to use when speaking alerts.
To control how long Talking Alerts waits before speaking, use the "Wait before speaking:" slider bar.
To test your settings, click the Demonstrate Settings button.
**To disable Talking Alerts completely, deselect both of the checkboxes. **
Speech recognition
Apple Speakable Items is Apple's speech recognition software built into OS X. To turn it on or off, and to adjust the settings, follow the directions below:
From the Apple menu, select System Preferences... .
In System Preferences, from the View menu, select Speech.
Under the Speech Recognition tab, you can select from several options:
Under the On/Off tab, you can turn Apple Speakable Items on and off, set it to turn on when you log into your OS X account, and set the acknowledgment sound the computer will make when it recognizes a command.
Under the Listening tab, you can adjust the settings that determine when the computer will listen for a voice command.
Under the Commands tab, you can select the set(s) of commands for which the computer will listen.
Hope this helps. :)
Hey that looks great, only problem is I'm stuck at step 3.
In the Speech window I can't find...Spoken User Interface tab.
I have a choice of Speech Recognition or Text to Speech
Ah THink I just found it...
Text to Speech >To change VoiceOver settings> Open Universal Access Preferences> (new window) >Seeing>turn off voiceover
What a relief
Never would have found Speech under View...what are all those other things? rethorical queston...
Thanks a bunch...now I just need to figure out how to make quick time run in Safari again...how to make web mail attachments in Safari not download as a html...let's see what else?
Anyways thanks...
You are welcome. Anytime neighbor. :)