Add Custom Speech Commands

**Chelsealov3** · 09-19-2009, 06:35 PM

So, yesterday I was playing around with the speech controls on my iMac, and I discovered a way to make custom speech commands, to do whatever you tell it to.
For example, I can tell my Firefox to go to my homepage, and then go to various sites I've programed in, like yahoo and facebook.

It's pretty simple to do, you just have to know a little bit of apple script.

What you'll want to do, is go activate the speech commands, by going to system preferences, then speech under the system heading.

I have mine set to listen continuously, with the command optional, but you can tweak it to your liking. After that, you'll want to calibrate the microphone so the system will recognize your commands.

So, let's start with a simple code that'll make the computer respond to what you say.

With speech commands activated, say "open speakable items folder"

Once that's opened, open script editor manually and type

delay 1
tell application "Terminal" to say "because windows sucks"

now save this as "I'm a mac" without the quotes to your desktop.
For any other scripts, the speech command will be whatever you save the file name as, so choose carefully.

Now, with the speakable items folder open, drag the script from your desktop into it.
There, now when you say I'm a mac, your computer should respond with because windows sucks.

Sorry if this tutorial is hard to follow or in the wrong place >.<