Turn off voice in osx permanently

[sidney1975]

Each time I turn off the system speech it gos away for a bit but then will return ,annoyingly, a couple of logons later I need to keep sound but just kill the voice help me please!!!

Thanks in advance
Sid

[rainman::|:|]

have you repaired permissions?

pnw

[Taft]

Try this at your own risk!!!

I doubt it would screw up your system (other than speech), but you have been warned.

You could always just open a terminal window, cd to the '/System/Library' directory, then do a 'mv Speech backup_Speech'. This will permanently move the speech recognizer, synthesizer and voices to a directory that won't be found by the system.

Alternatively, you could just move or delete the directory to acheive similar results. This would be a more dangerous alternative, but would be more garaunteed.

You may have to restart to clear all caches.

Taft