Okay, that's what I thought you meant. It hasn't been a problem so far; I think that may be part of why speakable items has to be turned off and on again sometimes but nothing else seems to be working more slowly or poorly so I can live with that. Since there's actually a command to quit speakable items which actually does turn it off in System preferences, I can turn it off pretty easily when I don't need it. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:54 PM, Tuscia-Falconer <falconer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > RAM if memory, but to do all the things a multi-tasking computer is doing, > though today they are so much faster, but then they are also doing much more > complex processing,…to do all this at the same time uses processor space, and > listening for that audio signal uses some of this processing space, > Plus we all use VO which uses processor space, more than someone not using > VO, so when Safari starts repeating 'Busy' or Garage Band sees RED and stops > or stalls, this is often because the processors are loaded. > So, depends how much you have going at one time. > > TF > > On 31/07/2012, at 4:17 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > Are you talking about memory or disk space? > > -- > Cheryl > > May the words of my mouth > and the meditation of my heart > be acceptable to You, Lord, > my rock and my Redeemer. > (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) > > > > On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:15 PM, Tuscia-Falconer <falconer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Listening continuously uses a reasonable amount of processing space, so keep >> this in mind, particularly if you are doing any audio or video work. >> >> TF >> >> On 31/07/2012, at 3:22 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> >> One way to keep from having random actions happen when you didn't speak >> intentionally to have them happen, if you want to set unspeakable items to >> listen continuously, is to select continuous listening but specify a keyword >> and choose to have it required before each command. There will be times when >> you may have to turn speakable items off and back on if it becomes >> unresponsibe, but you shouldn't get random actions happening because of >> something your computer heard that wasn't a command. >> >> -- >> Cheryl >> >> May the words of my mouth >> and the meditation of my heart >> be acceptable to You, Lord, >> my rock and my Redeemer. >> (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) >> >> >> >> > >