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by KenHutchinson
Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:45 pm
Forum: Adium
Topic: Is there a way to interrupt the speech?
Replies: 9
Views: 3351

Eh? I bet there's some way to cancel the currently playing sound. Peter would know better though.
You make a good point. There may be a hotkey for this, but it wouldn't be in Adium, it would be in the Mac OS X documentation. I'll look for this, too.
by KenHutchinson
Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:41 pm
Forum: Adium
Topic: Is there a way to interrupt the speech?
Replies: 9
Views: 3351

The way you described it to me meant that you wanted it entirely disabled, so that's why I suggested what I did. There is no reason for you to become rude about it. By the time the text is sent to the system speech to say it, it's too late and disabling would do nothing useful beyond preventing fut...
by KenHutchinson
Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:08 pm
Forum: Adium
Topic: Is there a way to interrupt the speech?
Replies: 9
Views: 3351

Well, that was pretty useless. Disabling the speech would mean NOT hearing all of the messages I do want to hear. It's a good feature. I happen to like it. I don't want to throw it away just because someone occasionally sends me a message that becomes annoying. The ability to hit a function key and ...
by KenHutchinson
Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:52 am
Forum: Adium
Topic: Is there a way to interrupt the speech?
Replies: 9
Views: 3351

Is there a way to interrupt the speech?

I really enjoy having Adium read my incoming instant messages, but sometimes I want to cut it off. Not permanently, but I just want to stop it from reading the current message. Like, when someone sends me something that is unpronounceable, so Adium starts reading it off one character at a time. Is t...