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[ghandley]

Thank you Michael & James,

This is the first time I've had to reply to your much appreciated responses. I have been fighting this heavy duty for the last three weeks. The OS is presently 10.12.6, and the Mini is a late 2014 with a 3 Ghz Intel Core I7 processor with 16 GB of DDR3s if that makes any difference.

I have sat for hours trying different tricks to get it to stop, and learned some. I could easily tell when I was losing audio as you could click on the XTension Run Script button, and watch the half circles around the volume icon in the upper right hand corner disappear.

Because I've embarrassed myself enough on the List for dumb things, I held off asking about what I knew must be something I was causing. Besides, I learned that I could narrow it down to which line or lines were initiating the problem, and they frequently changed, but with a line like I sent under the offending line would correct it. I studied to see if I could see any pattern, and I couldn't.

I have been really heavy into finding and rewriting any script where the new Arthur (Oliver) speaks as every voice has it's own set of peculiarities that I'm still discovering. Sadly, Apple's Oliver, just like Cepstral's Lawrence supports only a very few extended voice commands. I've also crashed the audio on this Mini since changing voices from Cepstral's Lawrence to Apple's Oliver. It's rare now, but I can still do it. 

But while gaining that stability, I gained this new audio problem which I am elated to learn is not just my problem or imagination.

I wonder if the screen sharing Command/Tab problem I reported a week or so back is related. I also need to report that a day after last writing on the List learning that others have seen the same, the problem went away, and came back, and is presently away again, So... the problem is repeatable just like the audio problem we've both seen.

Another correction. I also reported  a week or so back that I had found that Apple had, by itself, and without asking, upgraded my Minis 
to High Sierra, and that is not true. I am still running Sierra. Apple, I'm presuming, did install something as I found both machines down requiring me to log into each indicating to me they had been rebooted.

I'm glad to see that James has weighed into this thread as well and again I wonder if High Sierra might be the solution. 

I like and will install your scheduled event idea as a temporary band-aide solution, but I've got to believe that Apple knows about both these idiosyncracies and is either working on them, or High Sierra is the solution or will be. In my case, I think I will schedule this volume check scheduled event every minute,  but it is so important, I really need it checked every second due to the one time things he can also say.

I'm also interested if you have added the handler James has suggested? That does sound pretty slick.

Oh well, back to the mines.

Thanks,

George


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