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Speakable Items Wrecked...
Authored by: mac_guy on Jan 16, '03 02:19:51PM

I have an iMac G4 (640MB). I've tried the unusual system software that comes with Jaguar: Ink & Speakable Items. Ink isn't useful. Speakable Items is (but for one big flaw). I didn't buy a microphone, the internal one worked well; but it's quiet where I use my iMac. I wrote my own applescripts, put them in the Speakable Items folder (and created new folders for other applications). And it all worked better than I'd ever seen with OS8 or OS9. It was a real joy to speak the name of my custom scripts to run those scripts while working on something else.

But then it all started to go wrong. Each day the computer became more unstable, the Finder especially: disappearing icons, inexplicable bitjunk in windows, crashes that'd occur a few seconds after any window was opened. I searched the web, tried lots of fixes, and none worked. Then I turned off Speakable Items and the problems went away.

oh, well. Maybe someday this 'talking to one's computer' will work.



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Speakable Items Wrecked...
Authored by: prk on Jan 16, '03 06:26:07PM

I had the same problem with my wife's iMac. When speakable items was turned on, the system became very unstable. The Dock was getting all whacked and applications were crashing. I turned it off and things went back to normal.



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Speakable Items Wrecked (possible solution)
Authored by: bluehz on Jan 16, '03 11:58:09PM

What you guys may be experiencing is a known bug. I was testing this hint today and found that every time I had speakable items enabled and then switched to the Finder - the Finder would crash. Quite by accident I found the solution in an Apple discussion. There appears to be some odd interaction between Speakable items and some features of Universal Access. If you are having problems with Speakable Items and instability - you might try opening the Universal Access prefpane and disabling the "Enable Access for Assistive Devices" checkbox at the bottom of the "Seeing" tab. Once I disabled that - all the problems I had with Speakable items disappeared.



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