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Jun 26, 2014 7:04 PM in response to Christopher McGeeby BobHarris,I use BetterTouchTool as my hotkey app. Of course hotkeys is just a side feature to BetterTouchTools main task of enhancing your Touchpad, or Magic Mouse.
I do not know how to get native Mac OS X launch an app (such as one created by automator) or run an Applescript via a hotkey, which is why I'm suggesting a a hotkey utility.
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Jun 26, 2014 10:58 PM in response to Christopher McGeeby Camelot,There are any number of hotkey applications (QuickSilver, Alfred, more...) that can launch an application or script.
You can also write your speech as a Service (e.g. via Automator) and use the Keyboard -> Shortcuts preferences to assign a key to it.
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Jun 27, 2014 7:11 AM in response to Camelotby Christopher McGee,Thanks for the reply, Camelot. I would prefer to avoid 3rd-party applications if possible (especially if they are not free) to get this done. Your second suggestion gets me most of the way there; the last hurdle seems to be Adobe. Unfortunately, even setting up an Automator as a Service and assigning a shortcut to it in Preferences doesn't stop Adobe from "taking over" those shortcuts when one of their applications is in the foreground. Any way around this?
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Jun 27, 2014 8:18 AM in response to Christopher McGeeby BobHarris,★HelpfulThere are free hotkey utilities (BetterTouchTool is one, and I use it mainly for the improved touchpad support - lots of custom jesters; but there are others that are free, such as Spark). Although if you try and like BetterTouchTool, I'm sure the author would not object to a donation
However, if Adobe is very insistent about its Hotkeys, I'm not sure what you can do, besides choose a hotkey sequence that Adobe does not care about, unless you are trying to get users to Stop using some standard Adobe hotkey, and the voice message is to let them know they shouldn't use it.
You can experiment with some of the free hotkey utilities to see if they work, and then decide if you want to keep using them.
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Jun 27, 2014 10:40 AM in response to BobHarrisby Christopher McGee,Thanks, @BobHarris. I'll look into using BetterTouchTool, since it is free (well, donation-ware, anyway,) and also solves other things I would like to do with this Mac. My need for this shortcut has already passed, actually, but I will still gain some useful knowledge from pursuing it further.