Catalina OS. Apple SpeechRecognitionCore is eating 30% or more of my CPU.
If I forcequit, it just comes back. It also comes back after reboot.
I think I've turned it off in various places in System Properties but it doesn't solve the problem
Help, please
MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.15
Do this command in the Terminal followed by a return — after you have deselected Enable Voice Control in System Preferences : Accessibility : Voice Control panel. Your password will not echo when typed at the prompt.
sudo pkill -9 -x com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore.brokerd
As this is the parent process of the process com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore.speechrecognitiond, both will be killed with the preceding pkill command.
Do this command in the Terminal followed by a return — after you have deselected Enable Voice Control in System Preferences : Accessibility : Voice Control panel. Your password will not echo when typed at the prompt.
sudo pkill -9 -x com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore.brokerd
As this is the parent process of the process com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore.speechrecognitiond, both will be killed with the preceding pkill command.
Disabling Voice Control in its Preferences panel does not automatically kill either SpeechRecognitionCore process, and the Terminal command is still necessary to achieve that goal afterward. However, if Voice Control remains running, it is the controlling process of the two SpeechRecognitionCore processes, and the Terminal command will be ignored — until Voice Control is disabled.
Disabling Voice Control should inherently kill the two SpeechRecognitionCore processes, but Apple carelessly omitted that cleanup step, and the orphans continue to run until killed by the user, or the system is shutdown.
Many thanks.
Actually, I found from your instructions the first step (deselect Enable Voice Control...) to be what I needed! I didn't notice that one! Great help. I will save away your answer so I can to to sudo pkill if needed!
Cheers,
Got it.
Thanks again!
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