Mike, Ingenious. Works like a charm. Thank you.
There will be problems, as I have discovered in an other app I am working on in parsing sentences. The period has multiple uses besides a sentence delimiter, for example in abbreviations and in decimal numbers. These can be parsed out however. Thanks again, vert nice, Jim Hurley I have put my Text to Speech app up on the web: go url "http://jamesphurley.com/TextToSpeech.livecode" > > > Mike Bonner wrote: > > Yep, in simplest form its not to bad. I put a bunch of text into a field > then to read it, set the itemdelimter to "." put the field text into a > variable and replaced "? " with ?. " same with "! " replaced with "!. " (to > ensure we still retain punctuation tone changes) > > So the following script placed in a button will read from field 1. Clicking > the button again pauses, Reading picks up where it left off. > > local tReading, tCurrLine, tTotalLines,tText > on mouseUp > if tReading is empty then put false into tReading > put not tReading into tReading > set the label of me to "Reading: " & tReading > startLooping > end mouseUp > > command startLooping > set the linedelimiter to "." > if tReading then > if tCurrLine is empty then > put field 1 into tText > replace "? " with "?. " in tText > replace "! " with "!. " in tText > put the number of lines in tText into tTotalLines > put 1 into tCurrLine > end if > > if not revIsSpeaking() then > revspeak line tCurrLine of tText > if tCurrLine = tTotalLines then > put false into tReading > put empty into tCurrLine > else > add 1 to tCurrLine > end if > end if > set the label of me to "Reading: " & tReading > send startLooping to me in 20 milliseconds > end if > end startLooping _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode