10.4: Control Front Row via speech

Jan 31, '06 05:58:00AM

Contributed by: Hawkster

Tiger only hintIf you have Front Row on your Mac, you might like this little idea. Pretend you lost your remote to control Front Row, and it's basically pointless to use the keyboard to control it. So why not say it?

The idea is to use OS X Speech Commands to control Front Row. First enable Speakable Items in the Speech panel of System Preferences. Then say Define a keyboard command and wait for your system to respond. You can now create a command that maps to Front Row. The trick is to set the speech listening method to 'Listen continuously with keyword.'

For example, I named my computer Eve. To activate Front Row, all I have to say is Eve Front Row. Saying the command again will deactivate it. I have also created Eve Move Right and Eve Move Left to cycle through the main menus, Eve Enter to select the menu, and so on.

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