How can I enable Speakable Items via Applescript?

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#21

OOPS. I have my pst mixed up with what I was working on with Switch Control. :smiley:

Should I delete my posts or use it as an example? :smiley: What to do.

Edited: think I did that because both topics were in System Preferences.

#22

I changed the bundle identifier:

set bundle_id to "com.apple.speech.recognition.SpeakableItemsApp"
tell application "System Events"
	try
		set proc_id to id of first process whose bundle identifier is bundle_id
		set is_running to true
	on error
		set is_running to false
	end try
end tell
if is_running then
	tell application id bundle_id to quit
else
	tell application id bundle_id to launch
end if

It’s a good thing I wrote the script like that. Note that it takes a few seconds to update in System Preferences because it’s writing to file.

Edited: deleted “toggling doesn’t work” in the script which is wrong. ‘quit’ works with SpeakableItems.App.

gl,
kel

#23

If anyone is interested, there is a helper app “universalaccessd”. I remember this when testing it earlier. For some reason, I couldn’t quit the app earlier, but now need to find how to do it.

#24

kel1,
good looking out, works like a charm. thanks again!

#25

This little script may help:


tell application "System Events"
	tell process "System Preferences"
		get entire contents of window 1
	end tell
end tell
#26

Have you actually tried reading through a result from a script like that…:slight_smile: