To start with, just so we are all clear, VoiceOver sound can be output to the 
same device as the system or can be controlled independently of the system. The 
control is under the Sounds pane of VoiceOver Utility. I prefer to have mine 
controlled independently. Just because I want music or movies to be output 
through my home theatre system at a loud volume, doesn't mean I want to hear 
VoiceOver chattering at me at the same volume for everyone to hear. I thus have 
VoiceOver either going through the in-built speakers or to headphones, and 
sometimes like to switch between the in-built speakers and headphones, while 
keeping the system sound going through whatever device I have the system sound 
set to.

So that's what I'm trying to control. It's possible to control manually in the 
Sounds pane of VoiceOver Utility. However, I want to control it automatically 
using AppleScript.

But as Jonathon said, I'm pretty sure there's no VoiceOver AppleScript 
terminology (properties or commands) to do this. I looked in the VoiceOver 
AppleScript dictionary but couldn't find anything. But I'm hoping there might 
be some other way which I haven't yet considered.

On 15 Oct 2014, at 8:15 am, gkearney <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just what are you trying to do? Could you give an example. Changing the 
> output of sounds on Mac is not done in the VO utility program.
> 
> On Monday, 13 October 2014 02:36:23 UTC-7, Nic Parsons wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> Anyone know whether it is possible to script VoiceOver Utility with 
> AppleScript? I think the answer is no, but thought I'd check. I suppose it 
> would be possible to use GUI scripting, but I don't think I can be bothered 
> with that--too messy. I'm mainly interested in toggling the output source for 
> VoiceOver sound. 
> 
> Cheers, 
> Nic
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