Turn off speech with clipboard utilities and window title reader by creating the file ~/.agmsilent

speech/speak_window_title.sh

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ done
 
 # Read so long as the application is running
 while pgrep -u "$USER" ^$1 &> /dev/null ; do    
+    sleep 0.05
+    if [[ -f ~/.agmsilent ]]; then
+        continue
+    fi
     wnd_focus=$(xdotool getwindowfocus)
     wnd_title=$(xprop -id $wnd_focus WM_NAME)
     lookfor='"(.*)"'
@@ -20,5 +24,6 @@ while pgrep -u "$USER" ^$1 &> /dev/null ; do
             old_title="$wnd_title"
         fi
     fi
-    sleep 0.01
 done
+
+exit 0