HELP - Something went awry with my Speakable Items

[walkingmac]

GASP, I installed a third party voice (which all suck by they way, don't bother) and restarted my computer, Speakable Items no longer work! The mic interface comes up, but nothing is in the Speech Commands window! I don't have this problem in other users. HELP!

 

[snkTab]

What voice was it?

 

[walkingmac]

Diane from Cepstral. I tried others but they were worse then this one. I have searched all over and can't find any help. The issue is isolated to just my user but I would like to try and resolve this without moving to a new user, I see that as a last resort. Any help?

 

[snkTab]

Cepstral uses installers to add the voices, so I'm quessing this is how you installed it (rather than placing it manually whereever the other voices are)

Do you have a 'Cepstal Voices' in the 'other' section of System Preferences? If you do, you could try uninstalling the voice. If that doesn't work then just talk to Cepstal, I believe they are very customer friendly and well answer emails promptly (when in doubt, go to the source.)

And of course the old fallback, repairing permissions, which can be done using disk utility in your utilities folder.

 

[walkingmac]

ya... repair permissions and trashing pref's are the given. Nada. gunna try the voice people and see if they can't give more insight... hope that takes care of it.

 

[walkingmac]

ok, in an odd turn of events, I narrowed it down at a corrupt Address Book DB. I managed to save my User by using iBackup and create a backup of a new Users' DB file and then restore that file on my User, then re-import the vCards (not a backup DB as that just brings the whole problem back again) and fixed. Very off, probably just some random quark as I don't recall doing anything with Address Book at the time of the problem starting.