Trouble With Voiceover Script On Mac

By Pat Hornell, 4 November, 2019

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macOS and Mac Apps

Hello everybody

I use Voiceover scripts on my Mac by holding down the Right Option Key and pressing a letter, such as m for mail and t for time. After upgrading to Catalina, most of these scripts seem to work just fine, except t for time. When I press Right Option Key t to speak the date and time, the date and time are not spoken for about 30 seconds or longer. Has anybody else come across this issue? How did you resolve it?

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By KE7ZUM on Friday, November 15, 2019 - 23:45

Actually that kind of quit working fo rme. I hear time app is launched in the background then that's it. The app flashes for about 2 seconds but vo never speaks the time. I have to hammer on the key about 4-5 times for this to work.

By Pat Hornell on Friday, November 15, 2019 - 23:45

I actually tried your suggestion of waiting for Voiceover to finish speaking before pressing right Option t, but the problem persists. I am not sure how to turn a script into an app, but if that would serve as a temporary work-around, I wouldn't mind trying that. I hope Apple fixes this soon.