Hello all,
When I look up a word on the Dictionary app and interact with the text, it further goes into interactive mode and repeats every word of the text twice, a word at a time. It was fine until the last release.
Is there a new VO setting or an existing setting that I need to set to prevent this annoying behavior? Any help will be welcome,
Thanks and wish you all a very happy New Year.
Thanks.
By Mani, 27 December, 2023
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Experiencing this too
Hello,
I can confirm this issue, though I am quite sure it started before the latest update, even before MacOS Sonoma, at least in my use case. A workaround I can suggest (and that I regularly use) is to copy the text of the definition into a TextEdit document or a note in the Notes app and read it that way. Note that in order to be able to select all and copy the text in the definition section, you have to navigate to it using tab and arrow keys, without the VO modifier or with quicknav turned off. If you look up a word and move to the text area with regular VoiceOver commands and press commmand+a to select all, you will hear an error sound, because, for some reason, that area doesn't actually have keyboard focus and so you can't perform text selection commands, until you bring focus to it using tabs and arrows as I mentioned earlier.
Hope this helps, and wish you a happy new year as well!
Experiencing some of this...
Hi,
I am experiencing everything mentioned in the original post, with the exception of the double speaking of words. I am on macOS 13.6.x.
Also as an alternative to disabling VoiceOver, and copy/pasting text, you can copy the last phrase spoken, then paste that as normal.
Command for this is: Shifht + VO + 'C'.
Just an alternative idea for ya. 😇
The Dictionary Is Lousy Anyways
Apple Dictionary app is not up to the standard of good dictionaries. Myself bought WordWeb, and despite the fact it drives me crazy when I look up a word with the hyperlinks, it has a much more better experience in comparison to Apple's Dictionary app.
Thank you
Hello all,
Thank you for all the work arounds. I know it was broken before but never has it been this bad! I have an old iMac running Hi-Sierra and the Dictionary ap was flawless. I don't know why Apple keeps breaking things that aren't broke. And not only that, they ar further breaking the broken things.
mani
My particular problem with…
My particular problem with the dictionary app is that it jumps back to top when you try reading a definition. I experience this issue for a couple of years. It gets a little better when you use it in full screen mode (Window -> Enter Full Screen).
Hope this helps.
Sadik
Yup.
Bloody nuisance. I am thinking that this should be fed back to Apple; I don't think it was an issue before Sonoma, or at least not in the same way.
That, and the fact that Siri is now basically useless for this purpose because of the back-to-back requests misfeature, and the fact that the text of the entry can't be reviewed with VO commands (curiously, affects iOS in exactly the same way) mean that we no longer have access to a dictionary out of the box. Sigh. It's like Apple are trying really hard to make their platforms as unappealing as possible to us ...