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.
Listen for coughing
Activates Sound Recognition and turns on the option to listen for coughing.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Listen%20for%20coughing
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Listen%20for%20coughing
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Listen for coughing”
end tell
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Tells your device to start listening for any sounds you’ve chosen.
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Activates sound recognition for smoke alarms, cats or dogs, appliances, door bells, knocking, glass reaking, kettles, and water running.
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Pauses Sound Recognition and turns off listenign for Sirens, Fire Alarms, Smoke Alarms, and Shouting.
Reset Sound Recognition
Turns off all the sound recognizer options, while leaving Sound Recognition active.
Pause Sound Recognition
Pauses the Sound Recognition feature (rather than fully disabling it).
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