Telling if VoiceOver is on using Python

By Chris Norman, 16 August, 2014

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App Development and Programming

Hi all,
I'm writing a new VoiceOver backend for Ruuk's awesome service.xbmc.tts (http://ruuk.github.io/service.xbmc.tts/), but I need to actually check that VoiceOver is running.

I can do it with AppleScript I guess, checking all the processes, and return AppleScript true if VoiceOver is there, but how do I get that into Python?

I was hoping for a more pythonic approach... Also, anyone know if you can tell VoiceOver to stop speaking with AppleScript? I was just using 'tell application "voiceover" to output ""', but I'm sure there's a better way. Perhaps using the 'Pause or Resume Speaking' thing that you can assign to a key in the VO Utility?

Cheers in advance.

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