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What is this process? Speech Synthesis Server
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Speech Synthesis Server is the process that allows the time to be heard on the hour, and allows voice input. If you do not need any of these things, go to System Preferences>Accounts>YOUR ACCOUNT>Login Items and remove it.
Yup. The only apps that startup are what I intended to startup.
I just realized that when I disable the "Speak selected Text when the key is pressed" in Speech it goes away.
WTF!
I had to enable that to make Safari read bed time stories to me and now I have to use the stupid Speech services to do it!?
Does anyone know how to make Safari read text without that crap? It takes up 40mb of ram which is hell when I only have 1,024mb.
I was able to do this in Leopard but not now in Snow Leopard ><
I just realized that when I disable the "Speak selected Text when the key is pressed" in Speech it goes away.
WTF!
I had to enable that to make Safari read bed time stories to me and now I have to use the stupid Speech services to do it!?
Does anyone know how to make Safari read text without that crap? It takes up 40mb of ram which is hell when I only have 1,024mb.
I was able to do this in Leopard but not now in Snow Leopard ><
Hahaha, that is such a futuristic idea!How to return SpeechSynthesisServer to startup items
I've lost my login items from time to time. In systems preferences, navigate to accounts/login items. Add an item and navigate to the following address:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/SpeechSynthesis.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SpeechSynthesisServer.app
I've lost my login items from time to time. In systems preferences, navigate to accounts/login items. Add an item and navigate to the following address:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/SpeechSynthesis.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SpeechSynthesisServer.app
Thanks for the info! My macbook has been running in overdrive ever since I installed leopard and I could never figure out why... I don't know why I didn't think to look at the activity monitor until now... but Speech Synthesis Server was taking up 92% of CPU activity! As much as I like my mac to speak to me, it's not worth the excessive strain on the fan. If anyone figured out a way to enable the clock to speak without this, please let me know. Thanks!
speech synthesis server
first of all i have macbook pro late 2010 mountain lion latest update.
when i have speech synthesis server task/ activity on, the " quote botton doesn't work on my keyboard i tested this many times, as soon as i force quit it the botton works again. Is anyone else having this problem/ this is really frustrating and weird...
first of all i have macbook pro late 2010 mountain lion latest update.
when i have speech synthesis server task/ activity on, the " quote botton doesn't work on my keyboard i tested this many times, as soon as i force quit it the botton works again. Is anyone else having this problem/ this is really frustrating and weird...