Up until installing Monterey, my iMac announced the time on the half hour.
It now doesn’t.
I’ve found the Preference Panel where I can alter this, and it shows me the relevant boxes are ticked.
How do I get the time announced, again?
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Just so everyone knows?
I had my third call with Apple’s phone people, yesterday.
Who — before we had to take the drastic step of re-installing the operating system! — suggested resetting the PRAM, the Perimeter/Non-volatile RAM, trick.
By pressing ⌘, ⌥, P and R, on start-up.
That seems to have worked.
Just so everyone knows?
I had my third call with Apple’s phone people, yesterday.
Who — before we had to take the drastic step of re-installing the operating system! — suggested resetting the PRAM, the Perimeter/Non-volatile RAM, trick.
By pressing ⌘, ⌥, P and R, on start-up.
That seems to have worked.
FWIW, Boom 3D can cause the time announcement problem on Monterey. There may be other sound enhancement apps that do the same.
You might try making some change to that setting, and then changing it back, to see if it that helps.
I've never used this function before but I just tried to set it up. I checked the box, set it to the quarter hour, I went into customise voice, I changed the voice to Daniel ( UK English in my case). It works fine on my M1 iMac 24". When I checked the settings it displayed that it was using the default voice which is in fact Daniel.
Paul Downie wrote:
Right … I’ve just right switching the speakers from my iMac’s internal ones: to my Apple TV’s, and back again.
FWIW, I just noticed something. The first time I press one of the volume keys when there has been no audio for a short period of time, the sound doesn't play. It's like the audio has gone to sleep. The sound plays on the second and further presses. I also noticed, when in "Customize Voice" and hit play for the first time, the word "Hello" is cut off. Makes me wonder if the audio system has to be woken up before there are sounds. Might be why the Time announcement is being flaky.
dialabrain wrote:
Paul Downie wrote:
Right … I’ve just right switching the speakers from my iMac’s internal ones: to my Apple TV’s, and back again.
FWIW, I just noticed something. The first time I press one of the volume keys when there has been no audio for a short period of time, the sound doesn't play. It's like the audio has gone to sleep. The sound plays on the second and further presses. I also noticed, when in "Customize Voice" and hit play for the first time, the word "Hello" is cut off. Makes me wonder if the audio system has to be woken up before there are sounds. Might be why the Time announcement is being flaky.
I can’t say I’ve noticed that, @dialabrain.
But there’s been the odd occasion where my Mac’s been silent, after start up.
Logging out and back in seems to solve that.
Good news and bad news. I just got off of the phone with apple support to continue working on this issue. As I got them on the phone, my Mac mini announced the time as it should. So the good news is that it is not entirely broken in 12.0.1. The bad news is that I do not know exactly why it started working. The change that they had me do on a prior call was to select the computer internal speaker for sound. I set that back to what it was. I have an ASUS monitor with speakers that I set it back to. It does not make sense that that would have anything to do with it so I'm still baffled. The only other thing that I did was turn the "Announce the time" selection off and on, chose a customized voice (Samantha) and tested the voice. All of this was done several times before with no success so I don't think that helped.
I've been on the computer all morning and it did not work. The only thing I did before calling apple this time was set the sound back to the monitor. Now it seems to be working fine.
Hmmm …
I HAVE to admit, @matininpv, that something I’ve JUST had a look at, at my end.
I’ve an extra monitor: but not on that can play audio.
So I’ve tried switching my audio from the internal speakers, and back, again: we’ll have to see if that works …
VikingOSX wrote:
My M1 Pro MacBook Pro just announced the Time as "It's three o'clock". Same settings other than the 24 hour clock, and I have my Sound panel unmuted (cough).
Does it always say "It's three o'clock"? 😎
I've contacted Apple support. Their first two levels could not resolve it. I'm supposed to contact them when I have more time and ask for a senior support person. I'd like to know if it works for anyone. I image that it is not an often used feature. My machine is an M1 Mac mini.
Just so everyone knows?
I’ve managed — as one poster suggested — to switch the voice from the internal speakers, to my AppleTV’s speakers, And back again.
This seems to help.
However?
The time isn’t announced when I have the AppleTV switched on.
Apple are due to be phoning me, tomorrow …
Might as well as I never have it anounce time for me, though it just announced "It's fifteen-thirty" in a sultry English female voice. Right up there with attaching a flushing toilet sound in classic macOS — a feature well past its prime IMHO. 🤯
VikingOSX wrote:
Might as well as I never have it anounce time for me, though it just announced "It's fifteen-thirty" in a sultry English female voice. Right up there with attaching a flushing toilet sound in classic macOS — a feature well past its prime IMHO. 🤯
What do you have against sultry English female voices?
I have tried that, Luis: and, usually, that Works.
The clock announced the time, and hasn’t done, since.
I have the same issue with my M1 Mac mini. I've reset it off and on and it still does not work.
Did you find a solution?
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