Press buttons without asking
Press ⌥⇧Space and say "click" and a button's name, like "click Show Sidebar", and Speechy finds that menu item or button in the app in front of you on your Mac. It waits for Return before pressing, or presses at once when Press buttons without asking is on in Settings, Personalize, Voice actions. Buttons that send, delete or pay always wait for you.
How to use Press buttons without asking
Say click and its name
Press ⌥⇧Space first, in any app.
It finds the button
The front app's menus first, then the buttons in its window.
Confirm or skip
Press Return to press it. With the setting on, it presses right away.
Risky ones wait
Buttons that send, delete or pay always ask.
What you say, what it does
The app in front
You say
“Export as PDF”
Speechy does
Picks the front app's Export as PDF menu item.
The app in front
You say
“Click Done”
Speechy does
Presses the Done button in the front window.
Mail
You say
“Click Send”
Speechy does
Waits for your OK even with the setting on, because it sends.
Skip the confirm.
In Speechy, Settings, Personalize, Voice actions. Off until you turn it on.
- Press buttons without askingClick directly. Sending, deleting and payments still need confirmationOffOn
Questions
No. A menu item has to match its title exactly. If nothing matches, the request goes to the assistant instead.
Buttons that delete, send or pay, and menu items that delete, quit, close, send, pay, archive or erase.
Speechy reads the front app's menus and buttons through macOS Accessibility, so it needs Accessibility permission.
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