Hi Stephen, Speech Synthesis Server is the process that allows the time to be heard on the hour, and allows voice input. If you do not need any of these things, go to System Preferences>Accounts>YOUR ACCOUNT>Login Items and remove it.
Kind Regards, Ronni Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > On 25 Oct 2020, at 4:56 pm, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks > I wondered why my iMac startup slowed down recently. > > So I checked in System Preferences/Users & Groups/Login Items. > There is an App that I don’t recognise in there called “SpeechSynthesisServer” > > Does any know what that is and does it need to be in my Startup Apps ? > > Regards, > Stephen Chape > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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