Re: text-to-speech API? SAPI?

No Mac support either. Bob On Mar 4, 2010, at 2:54 AM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: > Hello, > > Minutes ago just had a bit of a minor programming epiphany. > > A teacher on an EFL (English as a Foreing Language) mailing list pointed me > to: > > http://neospeech.com/ &g

Re: text-to-speech API? SAPI?

There is a world of difference in quality between voices included with the Windows OS and those available from third parties. When I was exploring this a few years ago, I discovered that Cepstral offered some higher quality voices for not that much money (relative to my need at the time). This

Re: text-to-speech API? SAPI?

eech.com/ > > It's a text-to-speech service, and I was amazed how well intelligible > and ear pleasing it was. The state of the art has certainly improved > from what I remember way back when! > > So, seeing profound new possiblities for my language classroom, I > imme

Re: text-to-speech API? SAPI?

> Look at revSpeechVoices() and revSetSpeechVoice in the dictionary. There are > a bunch of different voices you can try, That's the first thing I did. I'm on XP so only have "Microsoft Sam". Not sufficient at all. Have also listened to Vista's "Microsoft Anna". So-so, but still too unnatural. P

Re: text-to-speech API? SAPI?

programming epiphany. A teacher on an EFL (English as a Foreing Language) mailing list pointed me to: http://neospeech.com/ It's a text-to-speech service, and I was amazed how well intelligible and ear pleasing it was. The state of the art has certainly improved from what I remember way

text-to-speech API? SAPI?

Hello, Minutes ago just had a bit of a minor programming epiphany. A teacher on an EFL (English as a Foreing Language) mailing list pointed me to: http://neospeech.com/ It's a text-to-speech service, and I was amazed how well intelligible and ear pleasing it was. The state of the ar

Re: Text to speech synched to video

te it gives you a starting point. Phil Davis revolut...@duncansoftware.on-rev.com wrote: I need to have a text file read using the system's text to speech engine and have it synched to a video. No talking heads just description of the activity in the video but there would be periods where

Text to speech synched to video

I need to have a text file read using the system's text to speech engine and have it synched to a video. No talking heads just description of the activity in the video but there would be periods where no speech is required, in other words, intermitent speech timed to the video. Along the lin

Re: Can Rev turn text to speech and record it?

Bernard Devlin wrote: Mind you, I sometimes wonder if my own dislike of things like Facebook and Twitter shows that my enjoyment of computer-related matters has ossified. I have no interest in either of those myself, but in my case it is an innate desire for privacy. I have little interest in

Re: Can Rev turn text to speech and record it?

It's a strange world. One of my contemporaries is a smart lawyer (many degrees). Yet despite having a computer on his desk for 20 years, he still gets completely confused by anything new that happens on the computer (and he's not the only lawyer I know like that). Today he called me because some

Re: Can Rev turn text to speech and record it?

Kay, It couldn't be too soon (for me) for that tech-savvy younger generation to take over this sector. But right now, there are large parts of it that are still operating as if it was 30 years ago. Here's one recent encounter I had with a customer of one of my other golf software products. T

Re: Can Rev turn text to speech and record it?

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Richard Miller wrote: > > The focus of this is on taking golf reservations. Ah, the penny drops, and the memories coming flooding back. Spent most of my childhood, 5-12, working weekends and school holidays with my Grandpa at a Golf Pro Shop. Retrieved enough 'd

Re: Can Rev turn text to speech and record it?

he information down. Fortunately, I've found the quality of telemessages text-to-speech calls to be excellent. They appear to be using the latest technology. Thanks for everyone's help in sorting this out. Richard Kay C Lan wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Richard Miller w

Re: Can Rev turn text to speech and record it?

just one more idea concerning work flow optimization, 'cause now it looks like the vendor wants to be enslaved by machine. What if not the server calls the vendor, but the vendor calls the server and listens for a report ? I still can not imagine the vendor (if suddenly something goes wrong ) b

Re: Can Rev turn text to speech and record it?

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Richard Miller wrote: > I'd appreciate any comments regarding the issue of keeping Skype running in > the background (on a MacMini) and periodically (could be several hundred > times per day) using Applescript to generate a wav file, then directing > Skype to call

Re: Can Rev turn text to speech and record it?

I'd appreciate any comments regarding the issue of keeping Skype running in the background (on a MacMini) and periodically (could be several hundred times per day) using Applescript to generate a wav file, then directing Skype to call the vendor and play the file. Do you think this can all happ

Re: Can Rev turn text to speech and record it?

Kay, well I looked the say part up in the mac scripter forum http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?pid=68963 There is a wealth of information and code on that forum. ´say´ is part of the scripting additions. And yes, Applescript is at times 'underdocumented', as is the Quicktime player Pro, I do a

Re: Can Rev turn text to speech and record it?

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:02 PM, BNig wrote: > > --- > set myDesktop to (path to desktop) as text > set myfilePath to myDesktop & "myRecording.aif" > set myText to "What to say, this is a recorded message and nothing more" > say myText saving to file myfilePath > set myExportPath to

Re: Can Rev turn text to speech and record it?

Richard, the whole script would be (without error checking and stuff) --- set myDesktop to (path to desktop) as text set myfilePath to myDesktop & "myRecording.aif" set myText to "What to say, this is a recorded message and nothing more" say myText saving to file myfilePath set myExp

Re: Can Rev turn text to speech and record it?

Bernd, That is cool! Works perfectly... and so easy. I'll take you up on the offer to convert it to wav, if you don't mind. I know it can be done with ffmpegx, but if that can be avoided, great. Thanks. Richard BNig wrote: Richard, if you are still interested in an easy way to record text

Re: Can Rev turn text to speech and record it?

Richard, if you are still interested in an easy way to record text to an audio file on a mac this applescript does it applescript -- set myDesktop to (path to desktop) as text set myfilePath to myDesktop & "myRecording.aif" set myText to "What to say, this is a recorded message" s

Re: Can Rev turn text to speech and record it?

Kay, The original purpose for going this route was to use Skype to generate a text-to-speech solution. The only significant differences between Skype and telemessage.com are that Skype is a bit less costly (I think 2-4 cents less per call) and one could potentially have many more options for

Re: Can Rev turn text to speech and record it?

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Richard Miller wrote: > Is there a reasonably elegant way (on a Mac) to have Rev turn text into > speech and record it as a wav file... Ah, so you are on Mac. Well, it looks like AppleScript or Automator is your friend again. Take a look here: http://www.ehow.c

Can Rev turn text to speech and record it?

Is there a reasonably elegant way (on a Mac) to have Rev turn text into speech and record it as a wav file... short of using the built-in Revspeak commands and having a program like Audacity capture the output from the speakers? Thanks. Richard Miller __

Re: Text to Speech on XP

Apparently, the externals is not set in your standalone, Phil. In the message box, type put the externals of stack "Home" You will see the path to revspeech.dll appear in the resulting list. Here on Mac OS X, I get the path to revspeech.bundle. If the standalone builder doesn't take care o

Re: Text to Speech on XP

Hi Mark, I built a quick speechTest standalone on XP Pro SP2 just now, and here's how it went. - the 'revSpeak' command works fine without any fiddling - the 'Externals' folder containing revspeech.dll is at the same level as my .exe file - 'the externals of this stack' answers empty - 'th

Re: Text to Speech on XP

The externals property is just the first thing I would check. on checkForSpeechExternal if "/revspeech.dll" is not in \ the externals of the mainstack of me then beep answer "Sorry, can't find speech dll." end if end if end checkForSpeechExternal Assuming that Windows

Re: Text to Speech on XP

I think he is referring to using revspeech.dll or revspeechapi4.dll. Microsoft, in there infinite wisdom, change the API from version 4 to version 5 of TTS. I see in 2.7.2 it appears that the api4.dll is no longer shipped, so maybe it is not longer a problem. It used to be if you were using

Re: Text to Speech on XP

At 5:28 PM +0200 7/28/06, Mark Schonewille wrote: Yes, text2speech is one of the few things I really like about windows. I assume all you have to do is make sure that the externals property has been set correctly. It works perfectly for me. As long as I select 'speech' for inclusion it should

Re: Text to Speech on XP

://www.salery.biz Download ErrorLib at http://economy-x-talk.com/developers.html and get full control of error handling in Revolution. Op 28-jul-2006, om 17:18 heeft sims het volgende geschreven: Does Text to Speech on XP (SAPI5) work with a Rev standalone? If so, what is the magic

Text to Speech on XP

Does Text to Speech on XP (SAPI5) work with a Rev standalone? If so, what is the magic incantation I need to use? sims ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: More cross-platform info needed - Text-to-Speech

Sarah (et al): I especially like Agnes High Quality... Or, is it Victoria High Quality? Bruce is decent, as well. BUT I really LOVE Trinoids, Zarvox... even Bad News. Bubbles is fun... and so on... ;-) Judy On Wed, 17 May 2006, Sarah Reichelt wrote: > Apple added a few higher quality ones

Re: More cross-platform info needed - Text-to-Speech

what is called for in our particular situation). Doesn't AT&T have some nice, cross-plat voices? Or, at least, Win voices? Probably not free, though... Judy On Tue, 16 May 2006, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > As far as I understand revSpeak leverages an operating system's built

Re: More cross-platform info needed - Text-to-Speech

n our particular situation). Doesn't AT&T have some nice, cross-plat voices? Or, at least, Win voices? Probably not free, though... Judy On Tue, 16 May 2006, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > As far as I understand revSpeak leverages an operating system's built-in > text-to-sp

More cross-platform info needed - Text-to-Speech

As far as I understand revSpeak leverages an operating system's built-in text-to-speech capabilities. Now my experience in this respect is limited to Mac & Win: both of which feature really bad voices - the Mac ones have been trotted out with each version of the operating system for at

Text-to-Speech Loop Behaves Oddly

on mouseUp put fld "maintext" into theText set the itemDelimiter to "." repeat with k = 1 to the number of items in theText put item k of theText into theSentence revspeak theSentence wait until revIsSpeaking() is false --you need this end repeat set the itemDelimiter to "

Re: Text-to-Speech Loop Behaves Oddly

Never mind. I found the function revIsSpeaking which when put inside the loop in the construct "wait until revIsSpeaking() is false" pauses the loop for each phrase to be spoken. On Apr 9, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Iden Rosenthal wrote: The following is the script of my button. The idea is to read s

Text-to-Speech Loop Behaves Oddly

The following is the script of my button. The idea is to read some text from a field and then say it back sentence by sentence. When I put the debugger on and step through the script it reads it properly. But when I don't have a breakpoint in the script it just reads the last sentence in th

Re: Text to speech engines for Windows

Marielle Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html > > Multilingual and free, produced by an academic team. But I don't know > of its quality. Hi Marielle! I tried this one [on a Mac, it is a cross-platform technology] , and it sounds very good. The english

Re: Text to speech engines for Windows

What's the best English text to speech engine for Windows? I see there are ones from Microsoft, WinSpeech, Lernout & Hauspie, AT&T, and maybe others. I know of this one: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html Multilingual and free, produced by an academic team. But I do

Re: Text to speech engines for Windows

Thanks Phil for an excellent resonse, I'll do some digging around and see what solution suits me best. Bob... _ Take advantage of powerful junk e-mail filters built on patented Microsoft® SmartScreen Technology. http://join.msn.c

Re: Text to speech engines for Windows

When I was investigating this a couple of months ago I felt that ATT had the most natural speech. But the cost was prohibitive for what I was doing. Mark On Sep 15, 2005, at 9:33 AM, Bob Earp wrote: What's the best English text to speech engine for Windows? I see there are ones

Re: Text to speech engines for Windows

/ They have downloadable voices for Mac. Windows, Linux. Languages include English, Americas Spanish, Canadian French, Italian, and others. Here's a list of other resources. Some have products that support text-to-speech (TTS) in phone sytems, others support TTS in cars, some support it in com

Text to speech engines for Windows

What's the best English text to speech engine for Windows? I see there are ones from Microsoft, WinSpeech, Lernout & Hauspie, AT&T, and maybe others. Are there others for Spanish, Portuguese and French ? Also, through searching I see references to SAPI 4.0, SAPI 5.0 and SAPI 5

Re: text to speech pronunciation

ake None of the following work, though. The symbols either get ignored or pronounced literally. I like % choc=o=late @ cake I like chocolate [[/ ]] cake I like chocolate [[/]] cake I like chocolate / cake Hello, I am [[inpt PHON]]mAYkAXl[[inpt TEXT]], the talking computer. As far as I can t

Re: text to speech pronunciation

]] cake I like chocolate [[/]] cake I like chocolate / cake Hello, I am [[inpt PHON]]mAYkAXl[[inpt TEXT]], the talking computer. As far as I can tell, I reached the limits of what the sayText external can do. Apparently, it only passess a small subset of all possible pronunciation modifiers

Re: text to speech pronunciation

ocolate [[/ ]] cake I like chocolate [[/]] cake I like chocolate / cake Hello, I am [[inpt PHON]]mAYkAXl[[inpt TEXT]], the talking computer. As far as I can tell, I reached the limits of what the sayText external can do. Apparently, it only passess a small subset of all possible pronunciation mod

text to speech pronunciation

alking computer. As far as I can tell, I reached the limits of what the sayText external can do. Apparently, it only passess a small subset of all possible pronunciation modifiers to macinTalk. How about DreamCard. I assume it has some text to speech ability. (true?) Does it allow more pronunc

Text to Speech in windows

Thanks Tuviah..much appreciated. Judy wrote Well, I, as a Mac user, for one, do not agree. I was happy when TTS was made available for Windows, as well as when Jonathan made a Windows version of Shakobox. Of course you are right. Its a target machine issue rather than a developer machine issue an

Text to speech Bugzilla'd (#2069)

Tuviah, I did not realize that work had -not- been progressing on text-to-speech for Windws XP (SAPI5). I have started a Bugzilla thread (#2069). The lack of text-to-speech on WindowsXP is all that prevents me from releasing an important app (important to my client and me). I complained about

Re: Text to Speech in windows

Well, I, as a Mac user, for one, do not agree. I was happy when TTS was made available for Windows, as well as when Jonathan made a Windows version of Shakobox. I don't want features to be broken under windows... and this isn't because it affects my bottom line (thin as it is), either. OTOH, con

Text to Speech in windows

don't think it's really an end user solution. Cheers Steve Tuviah wrote.. > SAPI 4 can co-exist with SAPI 5. As it stands I do have code to get text to > speech working with SAPI 5, see if I can squeeze it in between now and > release. I'm just wondering what bugzilla numb

Re: Text to speech nonfunctional in standalone

You are right again. My bad. Thanks, Dar. On Feb 14, 2004, at 7:55 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On Saturday, February 14, 2004, at 05:03 PM, Marian Petrides wrote: Wouldn't it see and execute the put whatText into field "debug" before it even knew there was an unsupported revSpeak out there??? This is

Re: Text to speech nonfunctional in standalone

On Saturday, February 14, 2004, at 05:03 PM, Marian Petrides wrote: Wouldn't it see and execute the put whatText into field "debug" before it even knew there was an unsupported revSpeak out there??? This is what you wrote earlier: On mouseUp Put field "TextToSpeak" into whatText RevSpeak wha

Re: Text to speech nonfunctional in standalone

On Saturday, February 14, 2004, at 04:34 PM, Marian Petrides wrote: Thanks so much for the tip. I didn't know I needed to manually move it. Or (rereading your message) is there some checkbox I need to select to get it to be placed there in the process of making the standalone? If you allow th

Re: Text to speech nonfunctional in standalone

Dar, That (checking all libraries) did the trick. Thanks! And you were right about why my "clever" little debugging statement didn't work--presumably because the mouseUp handler quit prematurely, although you would think it would not see the RevSpeak command until AFTER it had put the value of

Re: Text to speech nonfunctional in standalone

You should not have to move anything manually. Unless you are moving your app + .bundle's to CD or another folder!!! IN the DB there is an option for "All other Libraries" and It must be selected for the standalone to work right. The same goes for the videograb library too. Tom On Feb 14, 2004

Re: Text to speech nonfunctional in standalone

Doug Thanks so much for the tip. I didn't know I needed to manually move it. Or (rereading your message) is there some checkbox I need to select to get it to be placed there in the process of making the standalone? In any event, that may well be PART of the problem but manually moving revsp

Re: Text to speech nonfunctional in standalone

It could be the same reason why my video grabber worked in the IDE and did not work at first in the standalone. The speech feature requires that a separate file called "revspeech.bundle" be in the data folder in the same location as the standalone. Make sure that is also generated when building th

Re: Text to speech nonfunctional in standalone

On Saturday, February 14, 2004, at 02:39 PM, Marian Petrides wrote: In the IDE: the text entered into the first field gets spoken and appears properly in the second field ("debug") In the standalone: No speech, no text placed into field "debug" Your example has no 'try' structure. Perhaps your

Re: Text to speech nonfunctional in standalone

On Saturday, February 14, 2004, at 02:39 PM, Marian Petrides wrote: What gives? Evidently there is some difference between the IDE and the standalone that prevents the contents of the first field from being properly captured and presented to the speech routine but also prevents it from being p

Re: Text to speech nonfunctional in standalone

Addendum to previous If I add a second field to accept text from the following command (placed in the button's mouseUp handler in addition to the revSpeak command): put whatText into field "debug" Entire button script follows: On mouseUp Put field "TextToSpeak" into whatText RevSpeak wha

Text to speech nonfunctional in standalone

I just put together a very simple demonstration of the RevSpeak command which consists of a card with 2 items on it: A field named "TextToSpeak" into which one enters text and a button containing the following simple script. On mouseUp Put field "TextToSpeak" into whatText RevSpeak whatTex

Text-to-Speech question

Are there any properties or functions that I can use to query Rev for the following speech details: What is the currently chosen voice? (revSetSpeechVoice -sets- it) ...speed? (revSetSpeechSpeed -sets- it) ...pitch? (revSetSpeechPitch -sets- it) revSpeechVoices seems to be the only function bu

Re: Text-to-Speech question

on 8/14/03 6:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 22:46:11 -0600 > Subject: Text-to-Speech question > From: Barry Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Are there any properties or functions that I can use to query Rev for > the

Re - text-to-speech on WindowsXP

Hi Barry, I had the same problem with Rev 2.0 and Mailed Rev about it and got the following reply from Tuviah. ---> snip >Does anyone know if Text to speech works in windows? I have tried Win XP and >Win 98 (using a button for both) and each time I get the error message 'Can't

Re: text-to-speech on WindowsXP

Is there no way to attach to this in Rev? When I try the text-to-speech sample stack included with the Rev 2.0.1 folder (for Windows), it sees no voices available. It's supposed to work with SAPI 4.x, not the 5 or Net or whatever. So the end user needs to install the old version. I inst

Re: text-to-speech on WindowsXP

--- Barry Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I started a thread some time ago about > text-to-speech options on > Windows. No problem on the Mac (of course). I was > just looking through > my XP installation and found a Speech Control Panel > in which there is a > &

text-to-speech on WindowsXP

I started a thread some time ago about text-to-speech options on Windows. No problem on the Mac (of course). I was just looking through my XP installation and found a Speech Control Panel in which there is a "voice" named "Microsoft Sam". When I selected it, it "speak

Re: text to speech

El samedi, 31 mai, 2003, a las 18:11 Europe/Paris, Geoff Canyon escribió: Are you trying this from the message box? I tried it there and got an error. In a button script it worked fine. On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 10:48 AM, Emmanuel Companys wrote: I finally got it working for english (the

Re: Text to Speech - Speech in windows

Does anyone know if Text to speech works in windows? I have tried Win XP and Win 98 (using a button for both) and each time I get the error message 'Can't initialise speech engine' I'm currently using 2.0r2. Note I am fairly inexperienced at Revolution (being a solid window

Re: text to speech

Are you trying this from the message box? I tried it there and got an error. In a button script it worked fine. On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 10:48 AM, Emmanuel Companys wrote: I'd like to use the RR 2.0 text to speech feature at least for the two languages Apple provides the apprp

Re: Cross-platform text-to-speech

N-U S/msaginst.EXE That is 17.4 megs, But it includes everything. - Josh Dye - Original Message - From: "Chipp Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 1:14 AM Subject: RE: Cross-platform text-to-speech > Did anyone ever suc

Re: Cross-platform text-to-speech

> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 11:59 PM Subject: Re: Cross-platform text-to-speech > on 7/15/02 6:30 PM, Josh Dye at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have (And had for the longest time) a simple stack that is TTS for > > Windows. > > You

RE: Cross-platform text-to-speech

Did anyone ever successfully get Narrator to work with the Externals Collection on XP? ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Cross-platform text-to-speech

on 7/15/02 6:30 PM, Josh Dye at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have (And had for the longest time) a simple stack that is TTS for > Windows. > You can get it here: > http://www.geocities.com/pkdrzzyzx/speak.zip > > You MUST copy the "Ext.dll" to plain C Drive (C:\) > Then run the program with rev,

Re: Cross-platform text-to-speech

hould work! (Thats if you are on Win2k or XP. You might need some more stuff) - Josh - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 5:35 PM Subject: Re: Cross-platform text-to-speech > > > Narrator appears to be pres

Re: Cross-platform text-to-speech

> Narrator appears to be present on 2K and XP, didn't see it on 98. Not sure > if this is what you're looking for, but it appears to be a bare bones text > to speech engine for reading dialogs/alerts/etc. -- Yep! Its in the accessories. We just looked at it in W2K. A

Re: Cross-platform text-to-speech

you using that has it? Are you saying it came with > standard installation of Windows? Never heard that before. Narrator appears to be present on 2K and XP, didn't see it on 98. Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but it appears to be a bare bones text to speech engine for

Re: Cross-platform text-to-speech

on 7/15/02 10:15 AM, Scott Rossi at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It does. -- Sorry. Terrible manners, I forgot to thank you for that valuable info concerning Narrator on Windows. I'll definitely check it out. Thanks again, Ken N. ___ use-revolu

Re: Cross-platform text-to-speech

n are you using that has it? Are you saying it came with standard installation of Windows? Never heard that before. All Mac OS' since 7.5 or somewhere back in there automatically install with text-to-speech extensions (MacInTalk and voices collection), unless you do a custom install without them.

Re: Cross-platform text-to-speech

on 7/15/02 7:13 AM, Richard Harrison at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Kurt Kaufman's suggestion is probably your only solution. If you get > it to work please let me know. -- Hi Rick, Here's a PC externals collection for MC that includes TTS: Now I have

Re: Cross-platform text-to-speech

Recently, "Ken Norris (dialup)" wrote: > I guess I've been spoiled by the Mac's ability to speak. Too bad Windows > doesn't offer similar utilities. It does. Look in the built-in help under Narrator. Not sure how available this is on various system versions, but then again, speech functionali

Re: Cross-platform text-to-speech

was going to be said in advance you could have just pre-generated some .wav or .aiff sound files. In your case you really do need some text to speech tools for Windows. Kurt Kaufman's suggestion is probably your only solution. If you get it to work please let me know. Thanks, Rick Harrison

Cross-platform text-to-speech

See the following message regarding TTS on Windows: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2002-June/005368.html KK ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Cross-platform text-to-speech

Thanks for replying, Rick. on 7/14/02 9:26 PM, Rick Harrison at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- > Do you know in advance what the text is to be spoken? -- Some yes, some no. There are about 80 buttons and 21 "planned" fields that have full voice feed back, plus over 300 common words,

Re: Cross-platform text-to-speech

on 7/14/2002 11:20 PM, Ken Norris (dialup) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Rev list, > > The subject line really says it all. I need some help researching random > text-to-speech for use in Rev cross-platform. My Macs have talked for years, > but what I need is some sort o

Cross-platform text-to-speech

Hello Rev list, The subject line really says it all. I need some help researching random text-to-speech for use in Rev cross-platform. My Macs have talked for years, but what I need is some sort of cheap English text-to-speech software that can be accessed from both Macs and PCs. Also, I need

Re: Text-To-Speech Speed

on 4/20/2002 2:51 AM, Dar Scott at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on mouseUp > put "The text [[rate 50]] I want spoken." into myVar > Do "say " & quote & myVar & quote as Applescript > end mouseUp Dar, Perfect, just what I was looking for! Thanks for all the great reference material too!!! Rick H

Re: Text-To-Speech Speed

On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 05:20 PM, Rick Harrison wrote: > Is there one for changing the speed of the voices too? Try this: on mouseUp put "The text [[rate 50]] I want spoken." into myVar Do "say " & quote & myVar & quote as Applescript end mouseUp Look here for all you can put into the t

Text-To-Speech Speed

on 4/14/2002 2:17 AM, Kurt Kaufman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Here's one way to specify a voice by name ("Princess" being a specific voice > available to the Speech Manager): > > on mouseUp > put "The text I want spoken." into myVar > Do "say " "e& myVar "e& " using " "e& Princess "e as >

Re: Text-to-Speech on Windows

> text-to-speech. The reasons are: > 1. The quality of the synthetic speech is not good enough (but he > doesn't like it on the Mac, either). > 2. The software to make text-to-speech work on Windows requires the > developer to virtually re-install Windows on the target machine; e

Re: Text-To-Speech/Mac OS X

On Sunday, April 14, 2002, at 02:17 AM, Kurt Kaufman wrote: > on mouseUp > put "The text I want spoken." into myVar > Do "say " "e& myVar "e& " using " "e& Princess "e > as Applescript > end mouseUp > This is fun! And can be handy for a mock-up before recording is made. AND you can use Engl

Text-to-Speech on Windows

A friend of mine who is having software developed for him (not by me nor using Rev) mentioned to me that his developer (who has, apparently, done a lot of work for IBM) wants to use actual sound files rather than text-to-speech. The reasons are: 1. The quality of the synthetic speech is not

Re: Text-To-Speech/Mac OS X

>From: Richard Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > > on mouseUp > > put "The text I want spoken." into myVar > > Do "say " "e& myVar "e as Applescript > > end mouseUp [...] > >Anyway to change voices? Here's one way to specify a voice by name ("Princess" being a specific voice available to t

Re: Text-To-Speech/Mac OS X

on 4/13/02 7:40 AM, Gene Kennedy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on mouseUp > put "The text I want spoken." into myVar > Do "say " "e& myVar "e as Applescript > end mouseUp -- Very nice. Why didn't I think of that? Many thanks Gene. Thanks...now what about Windows? What's the best voice se

Re: Text-to-Speech

on 4/13/02 6:50 AM, Barry Levine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The link to the Text-to-Speech external (three others included, as well). > > <http://www.runrev.com/revolution/developers/developerdownloads/externalscolle > ction. > html> -

Re: Text-To-Speech/Mac OS X

on 4/13/2002 10:40 AM, Gene Kennedy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > How about: > > on mouseUp > put "The text I want spoken." into myVar > Do "say " "e& myVar "e as Applescript > end mouseUp > > > Gene Kennedy Gene, This works great! How'd you find this one? Anyway to change voices? T

Text-to-Speech

The link to the Text-to-Speech external (three others included, as well). <http://www.runrev.com/revolution/developers/developerdownloads/externalscollection. html> Barry Jay Levine "The Mac Guy" Macintosh Trouble

Re: Text-To-Speech/Mac OS X

on 4/13/02 4:53 AM, Ken Norris (dialup) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on 4/12/02 11:40 PM, Kurt Kaufman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Does anyone know of an external that will allow R.R. access to >> text-to-speech on Mac OS X? >> Thanks, Kurt > -- > I&

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