Speech Feedback WIndow

Hi all,
I have been using Speakable Items to control my Mac for some simple tasks, most of the time I have the feedback window minimized in the Dock. But everytime I startup the computer, it will show up on the desktop again. I have checked the box to hide the Speech Startup under Login Items in Sys. Pref., but does anyone know how to minimize the feedback window or hide it some way after startup? It's not really a big deal, but doing it repeatingly is troublesome. Thanks a lot.
Regards,
Herman Lam
PowerBook G4 1.5GHz, iBook G3 800MHz Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Hey, I was on the phone with apple for about 3 hours today. I ended up saving all my stuff on my ipod and doing a complete wipe and re-install to fix it all. Good luck with it.

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You wrote: "I just did an erase and install of 10.4 as per an AppleCare rep, in order to try to track down repeated kernel panics (doesn't seem to have helped)."I'd say the kernel panics are the more pressing problem, and whatever is causing those may also be causing the Speech Feedback window side effect.
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Good luck!
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I am quite new to the whole apple os and recently, I found something called speech on my system preferances.
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My speech recognition window (the little circle thing) disappears once in a while for extended periods of time. I have done all the things suggested in the help including:
1. going to system preferences and turning speech off and on
2. restarting and turning off and on / turning off, restarting, and then on
3. deleting the com.apple.speech.recognition.feedback.prefs.plist, emptying trash, and turning off/on, turning off doing the same thing and on, off, deleting, restarting, on, etc.
4. copying all related speech recognition prefs from another admin's library into mine.
I once thought it may be some overheating issue as it once came back after i had shutdown and let it off for a while. however, the most recent issue, it came back without shutting it off.
sometimes it's gone for hours at a time or shortest 30mins. It usually disappears when i turn it off to let my wife login to her setup or when i turn it off when i know i wont be using it for a while or i am going to play a memory intesive game. my wife's login seems to have no problem but she doesn't use it anywhere as much as i do.
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hi,
i removed all preferences stored in <your home>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.speech.*
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make sure that you clean the speech processes (kill -9) too before removing these files.
quite happy to find this, this has been a real p..n in the *. Apple guys, please clean this up asap.
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Message was edited by: Acumowchek

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I was using the speech feedback circlar icon where you could say like "open ichat" or "close this application" but now I cant get it to pop up. I have looked everywhere on the computer tried multiple options and rebooting and so forth. I think I deleted the icon by accident. Are there any links to download this software? I would really like to avoid losing my songs and pictures or having to buy something to store them all on.
Thank you in advance

Clarification of Neil's response:
0) Open System Preferences.
1) Click on the "Speech" pane.
2) Click on the "Speech Recognition" tab.
3) Click on the Speakable Items: On radio button.
4) If you want to, change the custom settings to suit yourself.
5) Quit System Preferences.
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HTH
Archie

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