Using Apple Script to launch System Preferences in to highly specific location - Sat, Oct 21, 2017

I’m working on my next update for my goofy little macOS application Trash Talker. This app heavily leverages macOS’s built-in Speech Synthesis engine.

I wanted to add some user-support to help them edit the available voices. I could have just written-out instructions, but reading is for the literate. It took me a while to find a method that I guess will be a good starting point, which is to invoke an Apple Script to direct System Preferences to the right location.

After some hours (I’ve never looked at Apple Script before), I cobbled-together a working solution:

I’ve posted the code for this in gitlab, so have fun with that.

Here’s a direct link to the actual Apple Script.

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