How do I turn Speech Recognition off?

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How do I turn Speech Recognition off?

I turned Speech Recognition on and am unable to turn it off. The annoying speech disc stays on despite the off button being highlighted in the speech preferences pane. I have restarted the computer but speech recognition will not die. Actually, I can kill it with Activity Monitor, but it reappears every time I restart. I have confirmed that I know how to turn Speech off and on with a second computer. Any thoughts?
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Power Mac 1.4 DP and 7 others, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Oct 14, 2006 7:57 AM

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plourens

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Oct 14, 2006 1:39 PM in response to Andrew Freeman4

System preferenes > Speech >> Turn off Speakable Items

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"speak": quit speakable items

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Answer 2

Oct 14, 2006 1:43 PM in response to plourens

Sorry, maybe I did not make myself clear. I HAVE tried multiple times what you suggest. That is, of course, the way you are supposed to turn off speech. This does not work on one of my Macs. That is the reason I posted here.

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plourens

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Oct 14, 2006 1:53 PM in response to Andrew Freeman4

Try looking at your login items

System Preferences >> Accounts >> login items

If, in the list, there is a "speechsynthesizerserver" or something like that, click the - icon below the list.

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Answer 4

Oct 14, 2006 2:27 PM in response to plourens

Thanks, I had already done that, but I looked again just to be sure. No speech items are in the login items folder. It is very curious.

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