an issue with Voiceover

By Majid Almaadeed, 13 June, 2019

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macOS and Mac Apps

Hi all,
I have an issue with voiceover. I have this issue when I upgraded to MacOS 10.14
Sometimes, when I unlock my mac and login voiceover's sounds disappears. That means,I can use all of voiceover commands but I can't hear anything. The only option I have is to restart.
I tried to change the default voice of voiceover but nothing happened.
does any one know how to get rid of this problem because it is annoying and I always have to restart.

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By Scott Duck on Saturday, June 29, 2019 - 15:59

I also started having this problem with Mac OS 10.14. It sometimes happens right after I unlock my mac but it happens at other, seemingly random, times too. When I have this problem, I turn Voice Over off and back on with VO F5. I have to cycle it off and on a couple times before the problem is corrected. So, try turning VoiceOver off and back on a few times and see if that brings speech back. It always does for me.

By Igna Triay on Saturday, June 29, 2019 - 15:59

the same thing works for me

By Majid Almaadeed on Saturday, June 29, 2019 - 15:59

Exactly, it happens randomly, and especially when using Safari or Mail. Thank you very much for giving me a better solution but it didn't work. I Hope this problem will be fixed soon in OS 10.15

By Ekaj on Saturday, June 29, 2019 - 15:59

Do you by chance have File Vault turned on? I tried that awhile back because I was getting a lot of spam, and it seemed to do the trick but at the same time I kept experiencing the problem described here with VoiceOver. So I eventually turned off File Vault and haven't had this problem since. Also, I experienced constant speech crashes in earlier versions of the operating system but I think those have been fixed at least on my end with Apple's new back-end file system. Hth and good luck.