Re: Problems in setting up speech recognition in iMac G5

In article <1itj50g.7wwkbcf1194eN%pfjames2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter
James <pfjames2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

About time I posted a step-by-step procedure for you,
which might help you get up and running.

1) Open system preferences from your Apple menu
2) Open "Speech", a window should open with a bunch of
choices, leave them all at their default values for the
time being.
Right works OK
3) Make sure the "Speech Recognition" tab is highlighted,
if not, click once on it to highlight it.
OK
4) Now click once on the "On/Off" tab, a sub-window should
immediately open.
No. Clicking on the On/Off tab opens a small round circle with Esc in
the middle of it and a small mike in the upper half. There is a tab on
it when clicked offers a small menu of:
Open Speech commands window or
Speech preferences

On the main menu where the button to select speakable items on/off there
is also:
A menu to select a command set. This offers
Address Book
Global speakable items
Application specific items
Application switching
Front window
Menu bar

Below this sub menu is a button marked "Open Speakable Items Folder"
Clicking on this opens the Folder Speakable Items from the finder, and
this is empty.

Aha! Now we are getting somewhere.

That "Speakable Items" folder _should_ be full of the actual scripts
which implement all the commands, no wonder they do not work.

Without those scripts, none of the commands will work.

Those scripts are mainly written in AppleScript code, although
some of the scripts may be written in Visual Basic or even C language.

My Speakable Items folder has 68 items in it for example, one item
for each command.

For whatever reason, someone or something emptied the entire
contents of that folder in your case.

If you have another Mac, the same folder should be full, there
should be 38 items in that folder, one of which is another folder
containing 30 additional items.

Looks like you might be stuck with completely reloading your OS
from the original install disks.

Names of some of the files in my Speakable Items folder:

Cancel last command
Close Speech Commands window
Close this window
Copy this to the clipboard
Define a keyboard command
Get my mail
Hide this application
Listen continuously
....
....
etc., etc.


Mark-
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