MacOS – How to get back Chinese Speech after upgrading to Mojave

Buscar is thinking exactly what I was. Open activity monitor and keep an eye on processor and RAM usage when your Mac is reading some text to you.

It is likely that some resource is limited and slowing things down. It is most likely RAM or CPU but it is also possible that the Mac is doing a lot of reading/writing to the HD or even the network or other mounted device.

If you reboot the Mac, make sure that there are no mounted network volumes nor any removable media (CDs, USB flash drives, etc.) mounted and then try to have some text spoken with nothing else running does the same thing happen?

If so try it with your network turned off, maybe even in Safe Mode.

I've found a very awkward workaround, though input is hidden:

• Create a file, e.g. /tmp/cfgutil.sh on the server
• Populate that file with the command you wish to run, e.g. cfgutil list
• When you ssh in, run open -a Terminal /tmp/cfgutil.sh

Here's a minimal example: echo "/usr/local/bin/cfgutil list" > /tmp/cfgutil.sh && ssh localhost open -a Terminal "/tmp/cfgutil.sh"

I suspect it only works if the user is logged in via the UI as well.