Open Sound Recognition preferences

Opens the Sound Recognition section of Accessibility settings and lets you toggle the feature on or off, see how much storage is used, and choose which sounds to recognize.

Actions Used

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URL
Passes the specified URL to the next action.
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Open URLs
Opens URLs passed into the action in Safari (or the corresponding app if it’s a deep link).

Extra Details

Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Sound%20Recognition%20preferences
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20Sound%20Recognition%20preferences
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Open Sound Recognition preferences” end tell

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