You can get out of the dialog easily enough, but you simply can't close it. 
It's odd, but not a big deal, at least not for me.
On Aug 1, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorry, still working on first coffee, wasn't quite thinking clearly. :)  Try 
> bringing up the window chooser with VO-F2.  That should do it.
> Best,
> Donna
> 
> On Aug 1, 2012, at 8:19 AM, Les Kriegler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> No, tried that.  I've tried choosing the close button and it exits, but the 
>> system dialog still remains.  I was also having problems with my screen 
>> saver related to the harddisk going to sleep.  Perhaps it's not related, but 
>> since I turned off Speakable Items, my harddisk is going to sleep and it 
>> gets reactivated when I press any key.  I know this because no speech occurs 
>> for a while which was the default behavior which is what I wish.  What was 
>> happening recently was that I heard speech immediately when I brought the 
>> system out of sleep mode.  gain, this may have nothing to do with this 
>> dialog, but with all of the difficulties I've encountered, I decided to 
>> forego Speakables for a while.
>> 
>> Les
>> On Aug 1, 2012, at 9:14 AM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm wondering if you could Alt-Tab out of it.
>>> Best,
>>> Donna
>>> On Aug 1, 2012, at 4:53 AM, Les Kriegler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I have the exact problem that you have.  There does not seem to be a way 
>>>> to close this dialog, as the options are to go to the Commands Menu or 
>>>> open Speech Preferences.  I powered off my system, and when I re-booted, 
>>>> it was gone for a short time, but always came back.  In addition, I still 
>>>> have not gotten any of my keystrokes to work most of the time, so I've 
>>>> decided to turn off Speakable items.  The System Dialog has gone away.  I 
>>>> just don't believe this feature is ready for Prime Time.  Dictation is 
>>>> working great, but Speakable Items for me has resulted in an awful lot of 
>>>> time used to get a feature, that at best, is inconsistent.
>>>> 
>>>> Les
>>>> On Aug 1, 2012, at 4:53 AM, Lisette Wesseling <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Folks
>>>>> Ever since playing with the speakable items I've got this system window 
>>>>> on my screen called "system dialogs menu". When I do command o to open it 
>>>>> (the only thing which seems to do anything) it says "speech feedback 
>>>>> survey". I can't close this or do anything with it. How do I get rid of 
>>>>> it please? 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Lisette 
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