[MV] Key Commands in iListen?

Chuck Rogers theChuck at mac.com
Thu Feb 6 19:07:58 PST 2003


Jonathan:

Sort of.

iListen has a feature called "One Shot Command." You say "One Shot 
Command" followed by the voice command you want iListen to execute. 
Once it executes the command, it returns to dictation mode.

For example, suppose the phone rings and you want to tell iTunes to 
pause. (Let's also assume you are wearing headphones, since getting 
speech recognition to work while music is playing is, uh, let's say 
"challenging.")

So you say "One Shot Command" followed by "Pause iTunes."

Before you can do this, of course, you need an AppleScript called 
"Pause iTunes" in your global command library. The script itself will 
look like this:

	tell application "iTunes"
		pause	
	end tell

To turn iTunes back on, you would need a script called "Play iTunes," 
and it would look like this:

	tell application "iTunes"
		pause	
	end tell

(The names of the script can be whatever you want, btw.)

You can enter the script using iListen's built-in Script Editor. If you 
need more help with this, you'll need to consult the iListen manual 
your contact MacSpeech support.

BTW - that same technique can be used for ViaVoice and PlainTalk, 
although where the script is stored and the way it is executed would be 
different.

Chuck Rogers


On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 08:57  PM, Jonathan Greene wrote:

> Is their way to create a key command shortcut can iListen so that by 
> switching to command mode I might instruct application to do > something?
>



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