[Athen] Voices in Adobe Reader for Mac

[Jeffrey Dell]

Did you deactivate and then activate Read Outloud after the changes?
I have had to do that before voice settings changes would take effect
in Adobe Pro 8.
Jeff

On 5/7/10, Terrill Thompson <tft at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> Sorry, premature send. As I was saying...

>

> Hmmm, looks like I spoke to soon when replying to Dan. Reader Preferences

> are indeed available as described in my previous reply,  but they don't seem

> to work. In Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3.2 running on Mac OS X 10.6.3, changing

> the pitch and speed (aka "Words per minute") has no effect on "Read Out

> Loud". I thought maybe it was accessing speech settings from elsewhere, but

> if I change the speed either in the OS Speech settings or in Universal

> Access (VoiceOver settings), this has no effect on Acrobat's "Read Out

> Loud".

>

> It looks like an Adobe Acrobat Reader bug, but does anyone else know of some

>  additional setting that we're overlooking?

>

> Thanks,

> Terry

>

>

> From: Terrill Thompson

> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 9:10 AM

> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network

> Subject: RE: Voices in Adobe Reader for Mac

>

> Hmmm, looks like I spoke to soon when replying to Dan. Reader Preferences

> are indeed available as described in my previous reply,  but they don't seem

> to work. In Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3.2 running on Mac OS X 10.6.3, changing

> the pitch and speed (aka "Words per minute") has no effect on "Read Out

> Loud". I thought maybe it was

>

> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On

> Behalf Of Terrill Thompson

> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 8:32 AM

> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network

> Subject: Re: [Athen] Voices in Adobe Reader for Mac

>

> Hi Dan,

>

> Adobe's "Read Out Loud" feature is configured the same way on the Mac as it

> is in Windows. Getting there is slightly different though. In Windows select

> Edit > Preferences, then select "Reading" from the list of Categories. On a

> Mac, select "Adobe Reader" > Preferences, then select "Reading" from the

> list of Categories.  In both versions, once you're in Reading Preferences,

> you can change the volume, voice, pitch, and speed.

>

> Regards,

>

> Terrill Thompson

> Technology Accessibility Specialist

> DO-IT, UW Accessible Technology

> UW Information Technology

> University of Washington

> tft at uw.edu<mailto:tft at uw.edu> | 206/221-4168

>

>

>

> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On

> Behalf Of Burke, Dan (DSS)

> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 7:42 AM

> To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network

> Subject: [Athen] Voices in Adobe Reader for Mac

>

> Greetings -

>

>

> Not having a Mac in our department, I am looking for aedvice in answering a

> student's question - how can he change the voices and speed in Adobe Reader

> on the Mac?

>

> Any tips would be most welcome!

>

> Dan

>

>

> Dan Burke

> Assistant Director/Assistive Technology Coordinator

>

> Disability Services for Studentstss

> The University of Montana

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>

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