How to stop announcing the time on macOS Big Sur 11.0.1
After upgrading to Big Sur, my Mac started announcing the time every hour.
I didn't find a way to disable announcing the time, do I maybe have to run a Terminal command?
You can disable this in System Preferences -> Dock & Menu Bar -> Clock
The setting is stored in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.speech.synthesis.general.prefs.plist
:
$ plutil -p com.apple.speech.synthesis.general.prefs.plist
{
"SpokenUIUseSpeakingHotKeyFlag" => 1
"TimeAnnouncementPrefs" => {
"TimeAnnouncementsEnabled" => 1
"TimeAnnouncementsIntervalIdentifier" => "EveryHourInterval"
"TimeAnnouncementsPhraseIdentifier" => "ShortTime"
"TimeAnnouncementsVoiceSettings" => {
"CustomVolume" => 0.5
}
}
}
You can use any Plist editor (or defaults
) to change the setting, it may require a restart (or killing the Dock) though to get activated.