Hi David,
As usual I said the opposite of what I meant, the async method is what you
want and is the value of 1.
Purge clears out the speech buffer and stops the existing speech.
So the Speak method is the opposite of the default since it speaks in the
background and the default does not since you had asked the question why and
what.
Correction:
Inside my Sapi class I had changed the statements to no wait until done
format. Where the speak statement inside the class defaults to Async mode which
sets the wait until done to false. I did this to enable the purge statement to
cancel speech during the talk for it requires both flags.
For the sync mode ignores any interrruptions, thus any purge is ignored.
So my Sapi class has the Speak method doing what you want with the
default of shutting off any existing speech.
I added another version of this by saying or calling it SpeakNext which
does not erase the buffer but does what is says, it speaks next in queue.
So in my Sapi class just use:
oTTSEngine.Speak text 'If you want existing speech stopped.
oTTSEngine.SpeakNext text 'Speaks this text after the existing stops.
oTTSEngine.Speaking text 'speaks text and xml tags with existing speech
stopped.
Example:
oTTSEngine.Speaking "To spell your name David: " & <spell> & "David" &
"</spell>"
oTTSEngine.SpeakAsIs text, flags 'defaults to the default, sync mode speech.
It also allows you to pass any of the flags in just like the standard Sapi
Speak method does.
Or when you do not want to use my class then just do it as a standard format
and instead of using SpeakAsIs text, flags just use the built in format:
oTTS.Speak text, flags (where flags are or together: async, purge, xml, or punc)
Bruce
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: Using a SAPI voice?
Hi David,
There is a flag to set asynchronous calls and in my SAPI class I set up
the calls in public statements,
Format:
(Without Pitch)
oTTS.Speak txt, async Or xml
(With Pitch)
oTTS.Speak "<pitch absmiddle=""" & CStr( getPitch) & """>" & txt &
"</pitch>", flags
Flags:
Everything is and or or together in one line for the flags which are below:
The default is sync and is 0, I don't know what your flag settings are but
it should be the default if no flags sent.
default_spk = 0
sync = 0 ' Default: CONTINUOUS SPEECH!
async = 1 ' Comes back after spoken phrase.
purge = 2 'STOP BEFORE SPEAK only if async is used!
isfile = 4 'OPEN TEXT AS TEXT FILE NAME AND SPEAK FILE TEXT!
xml = 8 'USE XML TAGS!
no_xml = 16 'IGNORE XML TAGS!
persist = 32 'XML NEW TAGS PERSIST IN ALL SPEECH!
punc = 64 'SAY ALL PUNCTUATIONS!
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 4:33 PM
Subject: Using a SAPI voice?
In my app, I am using a SAPI voice, to read out a certain amount of text.
the very basics of the code, is:
Dim SVoice: Set SVoice = CreateObject( "SAPI.SpVoice")
SVoice.Speak "blah-blah-blah!"
Allright, all of this works fine. Yet, since the text is somehow lengthy,
and I want other processes not to wait for all that text to be spoken, I have
this one question for you experienced developers.
Is there any instruction I can use, to send the text to the Sapi voice,
and immediately have the next line of code carried out? That is, some kind of
an instruction for the Sapi Object, to know that it is not supposed to wait for
the voice to finish speaking, before the code can move on.
Thanks for any response, and hope the above somehow made sense.
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