Is there a shortcut to turn dictation off? It works great but it is a huge memory hog (1GB), so it would be great to have a shortcut to turn it off, like the shortcut to turn it on? I am have been looking everywhere with no luck.
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
see System Preferences->Dictation & Speech
The shortcut key will toogle dictation on and off.
That shortcut will turn the microphone on and off. I'm looking for shortcut to disable dictation altogether. The reason being, it utilizes so much memory it really slows down my laptop.
On my system it takes up 8.5 mb according to Activity Monitor, that's not the enhanced version.
Additionally if the program is not active and Mavericks needs the memory for something else it will use its memory. So I don;t see it being a problem if it is inactive.
But to answer your original question, no there is no shortcut to turning it on and off, at least that I can find. Seems to have to go through the Preference Pane. You could probably cobble together an Applescript to manipulate the GUI to do what you want.
reagrds
If all you want is a shortcut to turn off dictation this Applescript
tell application "System Preferences"
activateset current pane to pane id "com.apple.preference.speech"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "System Preferences"
tell radio button "off" of radio group 1 of tab group 1 of window 1
clickend tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
will do that. You could save it as an App and assign a shortcut to it.
Turning it on is a bit more complicated unless you have enhanced on already.
Thank you very much. That may be over my head but I'll give it a shot.
FYI, Turning it on works if the shortcut is set up. Even if the preferences set to off, if you hit the shortcut it will prompt you to enable it, and turn dictation on.
Is there a shortcut to turn dictation off?
