iChat: Speak Text Preference Sticks After You Try to Turn It Off

Symptom

iChat continues to speak text even though you tried to turn off that feature.


Solution

These steps are a workaround for turning off "Speak text":

1. Choose Preferences from the iChat menu.
2. Click the Actions icon.
3. Choose the affected event from the Events menu. (The affected event is what is happening when you hear the spoken text.)
4. Deselect the checkbox for "Speak text."
5. Deselect the checkbox for "Enable these actions."
6. Choose Quit iChat from the iChat application menu.
7. Reopen iChat.

You may now reselect "Enable these actions," so that other actions may be used for the affected event. Any time that you select "Speak text" for the affected event, you may have to repeat these steps to turn it off.