I just retired my 2015 MacBook Pro, after 10 years, due to serious battery issues, and just bought a 2026 M5 MacBook Air, so I just transitioned straight from Big Sir to Tahoe. I'm having a couple issues and I'm wondering if there are solutions or if I will just have to live with these issues..
When editing text and I read a paragraph with VO plus P, I sometimes get very long pauses between sentences. This seems to be related to the length of the paragraph. From what I can tell, it only happens with paragraphs longer than 900 characters. I have encountered this issue in both Pages and Text Edit, so I suspect that it would happen in any edit field. It did not do this in Big Sir or the earlier versions of Mac OS before that. Is there a way to fix this?
When using quick nav in Safari, well, it's just a mess. I can turn quick nav on and move by heading, find the heading I want, and that's where things fall apart. I switch to the left and right arrows and sometimes it will read the way it's supposed to but, after varying lengths of time but usually pretty quickly, it will start going character by character. Once it starts doing that, it will no longer move by heading. I can turn quick nav off and back on and that will usually fix it but only very briefly. Is there a setting that I can change or some change in newer versions of Mac OS that I'm missing that makes quick nav work differently than I'm used to? Or do I just need to give up on quick nav?
I have only had the new MacBook for a couple days so I will probably have more questions. The apps I primarily use are Pages, Numbers, Safari, Mail, Messages, Notes, and Amadeus Pro for audio editing. Beyond just the things I have mentioned here, I would welcome any input concerning transitioning from Big Sir to Tahoe, particularly using these apps.
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Hi, here are some answers to your questions:
HTH
Sentence pauses are customizable
You go in the voice specific settings where you can change its rate and etc and at the end there is usually an option about sentence pauses, it's a steper so interact in then vo down arrow. Eloquence and virtually all nuance voices have this option and some have more.
Response to Tyler and TheBlindGuy07
Thank you for the input and suggestions.
Concerning the pauses between sentences, the Alex voice, which is the only one I use, does not have an adjustment for the pauses between sentences. I think that the pauses that I am experiencing is probably a bug, because it only happens with longer paragraphs. If it were a feature, one would think that it would always happen.
Concerning the quick nav issues, "Toggles all Quick Nav" is already selected, so that is not my issue. Turning quick nav off and back on and also the edit field trick both get quick nav back working but it again quickly fails. This happened very occasionally with Big Sir and earlier but not often enough to be of any concern. In Tahoe, it happens almost every time I use quick nav.
I will report both of these things as bugs to Apple. Maybe they will get fixed in Golden Gate. One can hope.
Issue With Numbers
I have run into another issue. When editing large Numbers files, when I enter data into a cell, I will often get "Numbers not responding" for a few seconds, before the data actually begins to appear in the cell. I don't know if this is an issue with Tahoe or if it's because I'm now using a newer version of Numbers. This did not happen with Numbers 12 running under Big Sir. Any suggestions concerning this would be appreciated.
Welcome to why I am so frustrated with macos since ventura
which was my first macos ever.
There are small bugs that pile up everywhere and no amount of feedback seems enough for apple to give even a low priority to those. Hint, I don't know if it was like that before, but any relatively large graph / flowchart in numbers on both ios and macos will make vo crash as soon as you try to use any of the audio graph / description feature, so this is yet another gimmic utterly useless in practice. Filed 2-3 feedbacks with no answer since sonoma.