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\nOpen Adium and select Adium –> Preferences<\/p>\n
I came across this feature a few weeks ago and have come to like it a lot.\u00a0 This post will describe how to have incoming instant messages spoken if the Adium window is not in focus.\u00a0 A window in focus is a window that is selected and usually in front.\u00a0 This feature comes into play is when Adium is not the window you’re working it.\u00a0 I like it because if I’m busy doing something else in another application I can hear messages that come in.
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\nOpen Adium and select Adium –> Preferences<\/p>\n
Select Events<\/p>\n
Find in the list, [Message received (Background Chat)] and click on it<\/p>\n
Click the + icon at the bottom left of the window, this will drop down an actions menu<\/p>\n
In the, Action: drop down list select, “Speak Selected Text”<\/p>\n
In the, Text to Speak: area type “%m”, without the quotes.<\/p>\n
That’s it, %m tells Adium to speak the “message”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I came across this feature a few weeks ago and have come to like it a lot.\u00a0 This post will describe how to have incoming instant messages spoken if the Adium window is not in focus.\u00a0 A window in focus is a window that is selected and usually in front.\u00a0 This feature comes into play … Continue reading How to make Adium speak incoming messages<\/span>