Q: Why is the talking clock still telling me time when disabled?
Dont know why, but a few months ago (I was using ML back then, now using Mavericks) I enabled on the hour speaking clock by going to Sys Preferences > Date & Time > Clock > Announce The Time
All was fine until I decided to turn it off (it keeps going on right through the night during my backups!)
I've disabled it and it still announces the time!
I've tried reactivating it, closing sysprefs, restarting, deactivate it, restart it etc no win
Also tried running:
defaults write ./com.apple.speech.synthesis.general.prefs TimeAnnouncementPrefs -dict TimeAnnouncementsEnabled -bool NO
If you change the period to "on the quarter hour" and disable - it speaks every quarter hour - its like it doesnt respect the disable flag.
Is there a prefs file I can manually edit at all?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Posted on Nov 11, 2013 3:14 PM

