Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
I've been wanting to make an Applescript for the speech program, that will play an itunes song. I've got my script made, but my only problem, is i need it to set my variable "song" to whatever i say.
The script name is "Play" so that I can say "Computer, play [song name]"
I have no idea what to do here to give user input by speech instead of typing, anybody who can help?
AppleScript-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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I'll need to experiment, but I don't believe you can use variable words in quite the way you want. However, you can always fall back on the brute-force approach: use applescript to extract the names of all your songs to a list, prefix each song name in the list with "play ", and then use that list in the listen command of the speech recognition server.
FYI, that would look something like this:
tell application "iTunes"
set songList to get name of every track of playlist 1
end tell
repeat with thisSong in songList
set contents of thisSong to "play " & thisSong
end repeat
tell application "SpeechRecognitionServer"
set songString to listen forsongList
end tell
set songName to text 6 thru -1 of songString
tell application "iTunes"
playtracksongName of playlist 1
end tell
though note that song titles often have odd names that the speech recognition server might have trouble with.
Thank you very much!
My idea, to my looking into it, isn't really possible :(
But this is perfect to do what I wanted!
How do I set a variable to a spoken word from Speech Recognition?
