David, I put this in a function and it seems to work just fine.
I made it slower--rate 20 to emphasize the difference.
Here is the app:
' rate change
Dim myHotkey : Set myHotkey =
Keyboard.RegisterHotkey("Alt-Control-Shift-I","Funct")
Function Funct()
ActiveSettings.Screen.Rate = 50
Speak "This text is spoken with normal speed"
ActiveSettings.Screen.Rate = 20 'Attempting to slow down speech.
Speak "but we also can have it done more lazily."
ActiveSettings.Screen.Rate = 50 'Back to normal.
Speak "Yet, we will keep things the good old way."
End Function
Jeff Weiss
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Huber [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 9:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Temporarily slowing down speech rate, what am I doing wrong?
Hi David:
Did you try putting Sleep commands after the Rate statements like sleep 30 or
sleep 50
I'm just guessing, but those sleep commands may give Window-eyes to respond to
the rate commands.
I have done this in my scripts and sometimes it had an effect but sometimes it
didn't, I'm not sure why, but it might be worth a try.
You can increase or decrease the number to whatever works.
Kevin Huber
On 6/19/14, David <[email protected]> wrote:
> '---Code snip---
> ActiveSettings.Screen.Rate = 50 'Now we are sure what we have for an
> outset.
> Speak "This text is spoken with normal speed"
> ActiveSettings.Screen.Rate = 30 'Attempting to slow down speech.
> Speak "but we also can have it done more lazily."
> ActiveSettings.Screen.Rate = 50 'Back to normal.
> Speak "Yet, we will keep things the good old way."
> '---End Of Snip---
>
> Guys,
> I have inserted a small snip of a code, above. When running this code,
> I had it perform the middle SPEAK command in a slower rate, but only once.
> Why it worked once, I have been unable to determine. I have run it
> numerous times, and the rate does not slow down. I tried with some
> sleep commands, both ahead of - and behind - the ActiveSettings instructions.
> All the sleep command did, was to insert initial pause before the
> speech would ever start out.
>
> Am I doing something wrong in my code? Did I miss some instructions?
> Or, is my idea of being able to slow down in the middle of a line of
> speak commands, totally lost behind any possibility?
>
> Thanks for any feedback and suggestions, that might lead me on the
> right track.
>
>
>
