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How to fully kill text-to-speech?
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<blockquote data-quote="nuclear.glow" data-source="post: 1223649" data-attributes="member: 199282"><p>Intro: one of the most irritating things in Windows is the "assistance" system that offers disabled people extra facilities to use their system. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy it is offered for those that need it, but it would be so nice if it was only ever installed on request, instead of lying dormant waiting to pounce on a regular who accidentally holds down a key too long - it's like waking up a built-in virus. You end up digging deep into the system to find a way to turn it all off, only to discover in a few weeks from then that you haven't. That's the point where you discover you can only make the monster sleep: there is no way to kill it off permanently.</p><p></p><p>Imagine thus the horror of finding my Mac going unprompted into text-to-speech mode on entering Front Row: it turns out that a program called Little Snitch (a network monitor) happily ignores the DO NOT USE setup in the System configuration. And guess what? OSX too appears to have no means to totally disable, remove, nuke and/or rip out this "service" root & branch. Yes, exactly that bane is portable.</p><p></p><p>Is there anyone out there who knows how to fully nuke this component so it never, ever comes near my machine again unless I actually WANT it? Naturally I have asked the people behind Little Snitch to stop calling that API in Front Row, but in principle it would be best if the API simply didn't even exist or did not do anything. God knows what else may activate this *cough* feature..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nuclear.glow, post: 1223649, member: 199282"] Intro: one of the most irritating things in Windows is the "assistance" system that offers disabled people extra facilities to use their system. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy it is offered for those that need it, but it would be so nice if it was only ever installed on request, instead of lying dormant waiting to pounce on a regular who accidentally holds down a key too long - it's like waking up a built-in virus. You end up digging deep into the system to find a way to turn it all off, only to discover in a few weeks from then that you haven't. That's the point where you discover you can only make the monster sleep: there is no way to kill it off permanently. Imagine thus the horror of finding my Mac going unprompted into text-to-speech mode on entering Front Row: it turns out that a program called Little Snitch (a network monitor) happily ignores the DO NOT USE setup in the System configuration. And guess what? OSX too appears to have no means to totally disable, remove, nuke and/or rip out this "service" root & branch. Yes, exactly that bane is portable. Is there anyone out there who knows how to fully nuke this component so it never, ever comes near my machine again unless I actually WANT it? Naturally I have asked the people behind Little Snitch to stop calling that API in Front Row, but in principle it would be best if the API simply didn't even exist or did not do anything. God knows what else may activate this *cough* feature.. [/QUOTE]
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