How to turn on Speech Recognition with a script?

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

The floating round window associated with Speech Recognition is sometimes annoying and I want to turn it off for few minutes then turn it back on.

I can easily turn off Speech Recognition by using this script:

tell application “SpeakableItems”
quit
end tell

But what about turn it back on? I know it is possible to script “System Preferences” but it would be a rather long script that opens the System Prefs, switchs to Speech, then goes to the Speech Recognition tab and finally toggles the On/Off. It takes as long as doing it manually.

Sorry, I just got it. Here is the script to do it:

tell application “Finder”
open file “Macintosh HD:System:Library:Speech:Recognizers:AppleSpeakableItems.SpeechRecognizer:Contents:Resources:SpeakableItems”
end tell
(You might have to change the name of the drive that contains the system in the path.)

#2

First, to open it by path and get the path dynamically on any system, try this:

But since it’s just an application, you can just tell the application “SpeakableItems” to launch or quit. Here’s a script that will toggle it off and on depending on whether it’s running or not:

Jon

[This script was automatically tagged for color coded syntax by Convert Script to Markup Code]

#3

Thanks Jon

I did find a way before you answered but your script is MUCH more elegant and versatile.

#4

Here is Jon’s script again. I had trouble opening the link above.


tell application "System Events" to set p to name of processes
if p contains "SpeakableItems" then
	tell application "SpeakableItems" to quit
else
	tell application "SpeakableItems" to launch
end if