Read Aloud Switching Speaker Voice?

Does anyone know of a solution to get the Read Aloud voice to stop switching to another voice? I used to use Read Aloud in Logos 4 quite a bit and did not encounter this issue until after the upgrade. Does anyone know if there is something I need to do?

If you're wondering what I'm talking about, try listening to these (if you have these resources):

About the third paragraph in, this one switches on me: logosres:lange64jn;ref=Page.p_267;off=2753

Voice switches about 4 paragraphs in after a verse reference: logosres:gs-bsac-143;ref=VolumeNumberPage.V_143,_N_570,_p_156;off=354

Thanks!

Chris

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JT (alabama24)

Does anyone know of a solution to get the Read Aloud voice to stop switching to another voice?

Your issue isn't happening to me on Mac. Perhaps it is a windows settings issue?

Fred Chapman

I checked the reference to Langes and the voice did not switch to another voice. Do you have more than one voice option available to you in the windows system?

Operation Evangelism

Thanks all for your questions and input.

I am on a Mac right now. I do have a Windows computer, but I have not upgraded Logos to version 5 on that system just yet.

Text to speech voice setting is: Tom

speed: Normal

Thanks!

Chris

Fred Chapman

Sorry, I can't help you with Mac.

JT (alabama24)

Text to speech voice setting is: Tom

I don't have "Tom" installed, and would rather not download the 450 MB file. Have you tried using one of the other voices to see if that fixes the problem?

Operation Evangelism

I tested to see if switching voices would help and the same problem. It switches to what almost sounds like a foreign speaker. In fact, it sounds Greek, when it gets to numbers, they are definitely being spoken in modern Greek.

I do have a Greek keyboard installed in my Mac OS.

OS 10.8.3 latest version with updates

Thanks!

Chris

Brisa Davis

The issue of Read Aloud incorrectly switching the speaker voice will be fixed in 5.1 Beta 7 for beta users, and in general when 5.1 ships to the stable channel.

Due to this fix, the Greek words in English resources will be skipped since the English voices provided by Apple cannot read the Greek appropriately. On Windows, the Greek text is not skipped. I have reported this issue to Development.

Operation Evangelism

Thank you for clarification and confirmation. I look forward to the fix.

Operation Evangelism

After installing the 5.1 update today on Mac (5.1.0.0943), this is confirmed fixed on the same system that was having problems and the provided resource links were confirmed working properly with no switching. Thanks for the fix!

Blessings,

Chris