Turning off speech

Accidentally turned on speech.. can't find a way to turn it off!! help

If you're referring to Voice Over then go to System Preferences->Accessibility; Voiceover and turn it off.
If you're referring to something else post back.
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Turning off speech recognition

Is there a way to completely turn off speech recognition server? I don't use it at all and it takes a lot of memory when running.

Hi
I'm assuming that you've tried turning it off using System Preferences > Speech > Speech Recognition.
If that doesn't work then I guess you could try deleting the preference files. Look in these two folders:
- Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences and
- your user name/Library/Preferences
Look for files with names like: com.apple.speech.recognition. .. .plist
Change the .plist file extension to something else and then reboot the computer. With any luck this should clear the problem. If it makes things worse you can rename the files back to their original names.
Good luck
Bob
iBook G3 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Turning off Speech feedback window

How do I get rid of the speech feedback window?
I have disabled everything in speech plus looked in startup items...nothing works.
Its there everytime I launch and I dont want it or need it. Its there with only Finder running.
Any suggestions?

Hey Roam...thanks...I did all that with no effect.
However I figured it out.
Seems I had set a few speech commands a long time ago and one of them was 'turn off speech'...so thats what I did and it worked when I relaunched.
Interesting that this overwrote all the other commands/prefs and keystrokes. Seems a bit dysfunctional to me.....I mean the whole software app
Thanks anyhow

How do I turn off Speech Command for Chess?

I love playing the Chess app, but I do not use the Speech Command. The little round icon annoys me a bit. Is there a way to get rid of it?

Turn off Speakable Items in Accessibility preferences or close the window from an app that uses speech recognition. For example, if you’re using Chess, choose Chess > Preferences, and then deselect the “Allow Player to Speak Moves” checkbox.
To move the window into the Dock, double-click it or say “Minimize speech feedback window.”

Cannot turn off speech.

I must have accidentally press a key that triggered speech to text. Now I have to bear this irritating speech for every move I made unless I turn the vol down all the way to '0'. I check the pref for speech but it was off. How do I turn this speech to text off without lowering my audio to '0'?
Thanks in advance.

You probably turned it on by pressing Command (apple key)+F5. You can it turn it off the same way!
In System Preferences/Universal Access/Seeing you can turn Voice Over off manually.

How to turn off Speech

How do I turnoff speech when receiving incoming Messages?

What was the answer... for others with the same problem?

Turn off disabled voice/speech/voice over of everything i do on my phone!!!!

help me turn off the voice that keeps saying evrything i am doing on my phone maybe this option is for disable or blind people i want to be able to use my phone!
if i click on whatsapp it says whatsapp over and over and doesnt allow me to open it i also can not scroll or navigate on my phone
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You have enabled VoiceOver:
Turning VoiceOver On or Off
(Note that I am a representative of the organization for the above link, which is not endorsed by Apple)

How to Switch Off Speech Recognition

I activated speech recognition just to see what it can do and got the round microphone icon in my screen. As I press Esc I can give commands.
I want to get rid of this round thing in my screen though and switch off Speech Recognition completely because I never use it.
I can not find where to switch it off. Who does?

I have Snow Leopard 10.6.8. This has happened to me many times. I don't know why the circle surfaces, but the common response is false - in my preferences, Speakable items is set to OFF. Turning any of the Speech settings on or off does not make the circle window disappear. The only way I can get rid of it is to reinstall the operating system from scratch (not an update), which is an incredible pain. I've done this twice to get rid of the circle, and it's back again! This is clearly a Snow Leopard bug, since all the responses say when you go into preferences you should see that Speakable items is set to ON, and it's NOT.
Seriously, if ANYONE knows how it gets in this state, and how to get rid of it when it's not responding to preferences. Force Quit doesn't see it. Maybe there's a low level Console way to kill the app - I'd do anything to get rid of that circle...
GUYS - SNOW LEOPARD USERS! I SOLVED IT! I SOLVED IT! I still don't know what triggers it, but here's how you get rid of it without a reinstall:
1) Launch Activity Monitor in flat mode
2) Look for a running task called something like SpeechRecognitionServer and select it.
3) Hit the Quit Process button on the upper left!
Voila, that annoying circle is gone!!!
YIPPIE!
- Jeff
P. S. I just noticed that this bug still wasn't solved in Lion, so hopefully my solution will help Lion users as well. This bug definitely didn't exist in Leopard.

Why I can turn off my Macbook Pro?

Hi.
I bought a MacBook Pro 17 “ inch laptop from apple store ( Almost 8Months)
About Mac: 4 GB RAM – 1333 MHz DDR3, 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 , Mac OS X Version 10.6.8 and 750GB HDD. Screen Resolution is set at 1920x1200 .
Well in this moment when I want to turn off my mac i get a screen Blue with a Spinning wait cursor and I need to press the button Power 5s for turn off the Mac
May you please give me the solution to this problem?
2> The other problem is about the battery heats up very easily. I dont know why... Just Im watching Movie and chatting with my friends, well thats all
Thanks and regards,
Alfonso.

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Apr 6 23:15:00 localhost com.apple.usbmuxd[18]: usbmuxd-268.5 on Jan 5 2012 at 03:34:01, running 64 bit
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Apr 6 23:15:04 localhost configd[13]: bootp_session_transmit: bpf_write(en1) failed: Network is down (50)
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Apr 6 23:31:59 MacBook-Pro-de-usuario mDNSResponder[26]: SIGHUP: Purge cache
Apr 6 23:35:17 MacBook-Pro-de-usuario Preview[181]: -deltaZ is deprecated for NSEventTypeRotate. Please use -rotation.
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Apr 6 23:58:43 MacBook-Pro-de-usuario com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[86] (com.apple.AirPortBaseStationAgent[111]): Exited: Killed
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Apr 6 23:58:43 MacBook-Pro-de-usuario loginwindow[27]: DEAD_PROCESS: 27 console
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Apr 6 23:58:43 MacBook-Pro-de-usuario DirectoryService[36]: BUG in libdispatch: 10K549 - 1960 - 0x10004004
Apr 6 23:58:43 MacBook-Pro-de-usuario ntpd_initres[131]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
Apr 6 23:58:43 MacBook-Pro-de-usuario imagent[113]: Quit - notifying about shutdown
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I am replying to my own post here as I seem to have fixed the problem.
I do have some calendars that are shared. Some of those are shared with users who have time zone support turned on. So i activated time zone support on my iphone, then deleted my icloud subscription. I then signed in to icloud again and voila... problem solved.
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