Speech notifications fail with Voiceover and Premium voices

[Carlos Palomino]

I'm experiencing two issues.

First, Growl notifications utilizing speech would not fire while I had a premium voice selected with Voiceover. Premium voices are those which are downloaded as extra TTS options.

I discovered that I was running an older version of Growl (1.2) but I had purchased 1.3 from the app store, which evidently installed over 1.2.

Next, I decided to do a clean install of Growl, and used the removal tool found the website to accomplish this action.
I then installed my purchased V1.3 (as of today), and found that none of my notifications were firing at all, even when using the standard TTS voice.

I'm stuck on what to do.


C.

[Daniel Siemer]

Odd, I have not experienced any issues of not speaking using Karen
(Australian English downloaded voice) in 1.3 and above, although there
was the issue of Growl waiting on other app's, that would cause CPU
hangs, and possibly not speak. Growl 1.4 brings some further
improvements to the speech display, mostly in making it not consumer
CPU waiting on things. Please try 1.4 after it is released (it is in
review right now), and see if that works better for speech (and Growl
2.0 will be a huge improvement to Speech, adding volume and rate
controls, and keyboard shortcuts for pause/play, skip, and "click"
notification).

As for notes not firing, some app's have issues with 1.3, because they
didn't follow our recommendations from even years ago about how to use
the framework. If you could list specific applications you are using
and not seeing notes from, we can try help you figure out how to get
them working again.