revSpeak and accented letters

[Mag]

I'm trying revSpeak command and noticed that when I give it as text to speack a string containing accented letters (like "è") the text is not read. Any idea?

[jmburnod]

Hi Mag,

Yes, revspeak doesn't work with accented letters on OSX since Lion
You have to use applescript for that

Best regards
Jean-Marc

[Mag]

Thank you so much Jean-Marc.

So, I will go with something like:

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put the field "AppleScriptCode" into theCode
do theCode as "applescript"

Field "AppleScriptCode":

say "Hello!" using "Agnes"

[jmburnod]

Bernd have done an excellent stack I use every day
you can find it here
http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtop ... eak#p42120
There is also a way by shell in the same thread
All the best
Jean-Marc

[Mag]

Very interesting...

[jmburnod]

Hi Mag,

I forgot you have to replace " à " by " a " in the text.
Some voices (Virginie in french) says
"il est parti a accent grave Paris" instead
"il est parti à Paris"

Best regards

Jean-Marc

[Mag]

Hi Mag,

I forgot you have to replace " à " by " a " in the text.
Some voices (Virginie in french) says
"il est parti a accent grave Paris" instead
"il est parti à Paris"

Best regards

Jean-Marc

:-O Really? But this don't changes the pronunciation of the words?

BTW
As French voices I have: Amelie, Chantal, Nicolas, Audrey, Aurelie and Thomas.

[jmburnod]

That concern only the WORD "à" that is the reason you have to replace " à " and not "à"

[Mag]

Thank you. I will add this code:

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replace " à " with " a " in theText -- to avoid the "il est parti a accent grave Paris" bug

[jmburnod]

Hi Mag,
Glad to help you.
I didn't verify all cases but it seems that "à" is the only case considered like a word with only one accented letter

[jmburnod]

Hi All,
There is a simpler way using revspeak

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on mouseUp
   get  "je suis à l'école"
   put unidecode(uniencode(it),"UTF8") into tSentence
   revspeak tSentence
end mouseUp

works fine for me
Kind regards
Jean-Marc

[jmburnod]

Hi All,
It seems LC 6.7 has changed something in revspeak command
With LC 5.5 I needed use this

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put "mangé" into tText
revspeak unidecode(uniencode(tText),"UTF8")

because it didn't work with accented letters.

With LC 6.7 we can return to a simple revspeak command

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put "mangé" into tText
revspeak tText

Best regards
Jean-Marc