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Hi, i'm looking for a way to download MacOs/Windows Speech voices from my Standalone app.
I know the manual steps to download them, but I'm looking for automatic download of these voices when the app doesn't detect them.

I saw the documentation for Speech library, but Hysterical has to be an available voice (already downloaded).

Do you have a solution or an approach?

(ps: I had to replace the . with - because the forum detects it as an external url)

Hi gg12,
and welcome
Yes that would be very useful.
SpeechSetVoice only get a list of installed voices
As far i know there is not a LiveCode way now.
Maybe applescript, external or something else ?

Best regards
Jean-Marc

Just wondering (cause I don't know) if the speech voices could be included and installed from within the stack? Have. been pondering similar things so that I can use the old MacOS voices (like Hysterical, Bad News, Trinoids, etc.) in children's mini-apps.

I'm guessing that a workaround could be having those voices installed on your development machine and then running it (your stack/app) using an audio capture utility like audacity to capture the 'voices' as a sound file and then play *those* sound files rather than using the LC/OS TTS engine.

I'm guessing that a workaround could be having those voices installed on your development machine and then running it using an audio capture utility like audacity to capture the 'voices' and then play *those* sound files rather than using the LC TTS engine.

You might end up with enormous standalone files, and your speech TTS files would not be where the OS would look for them.

You could. Can you not specify the installation path?