Sound recognition

Activate Sound Recognition

Tells your device to start listening for any sounds you’ve chosen.

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Monitor The Office

Activates Sound Recognition and listens for fire alarms, sirens, smoke alarms, glass breaking, and shouting – anything you’d definitely want to know about in a work environment.

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Monitor The House

Activates sound recognition for smoke alarms, cats or dogs, appliances, door bells, knocking, glass reaking, kettles, and water running.

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Reset Sound Recognition

Turns off all the sound recognizer options, while leaving Sound Recognition active.

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Listen for coughing

Activates Sound Recognition and turns on the option to listen for coughing.

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Stop Monitoring The House

Pauses Sound Recogntion and disables the option to listen for home lifestyle sounds.

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Pause Sound Recognition

Pauses the Sound Recognition feature (rather than fully disabling it).

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Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Activate%20Sound%20Recognition%20

Link to Open Shortcut

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Activate%20Sound%20Recognition%20

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Activate Sound Recognition ” end tell

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