Mac help

[emilstorm]

Hello EB, I use my wife's old 2008 iMac sometimes, but I have a huge problem. When I try to make an underscore it won't, in stead it reads what I have written (in a creepy voice). It was kind of fun the first couple of times, but now I am kind of sick of it, and I need that underscore to type in my email adress. I have tried google but Couldn't find anything useful. Am I missing something embarrassingly obvious or is my wife's Mac possessed by an evil synthetic robot voiced underscore demon?

[Darkdragon]

Is this only happening in the web browser? If so, what browser is it using?

[emilstorm]

I have only used underscore in the browser, it's safari. I am not near it right now so I can't try it out.

[emilstorm]

I have just tried in word, still just Mr. Robotvoice...

[Brickdoctor]

Open System Preferences; click "Dictation and Speech"; click the tab "Text to Speech". Is the option, "Speak selected text when the key is pressed" checked, and, if so, what is the key combination set to? There's a button there to change the key.

I can't imagine why someone would change it to "Shift+-" (The default on my computer appears to be "Option+Esc", and it's kind of amusing that OS X lets you change it to a combination that actually types a character.), but I just tried it, and it works for me. (And if you're typing in a text field, you don't have to select any text; it just starts reading what's been typed.)

[emilstorm]

Dear Mr. Brickdoctor, i tried your suggestion, now it just makes a weird "dong" noise when i want my beloved underscore. And the key combination was "Shift+/" before i changed it. Thank you for your help though, i think my there is something up with the keyboard configuration... Some thing to work with I guess

[Brickdoctor]

"Shift+/" is even funnier; if someone set it to that, he wouldn't have been able to type question marks.

[emilstorm]

Apparently this person knew it all, no need for questions... It does sound a lot like my wife :)

[emilstorm]

For all those people out there that have not been able to sleep, because of my Mac trouble: It's ok now! After a couple of days it just started working again ______________________!