Livecode and Lion

[CharlesSilverman]

I've not been able to bring up any of the new Lion TTS voices using revSpeechVoice(). I've downloaded the voices and can access them in the Systems Prefs Speech->Text-to-Speech setup area. Is there a workaround to get these into my projects and/or is there a fix coming?

thanks,
Charles
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Charles Silverman, M.Ed.
Inclusive Media & Design, Inc.
Toronto ONTARIO

[Klaus]

Hi Charles,

just downloaded some german speech files (which sound VERY good in fact!)
on OS X Lion and "revspeak" does definitively not work with them!

But we can use SHELL:

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get shell("say" && "my text to speak here...")
...

Will work with the voice you set up in the system prefs.
Not exactly what you need, but anyway...


Best

Klaus

[CharlesSilverman]

Thanks, Klaus - and appreciate the sample code - will give this a spin. Do you know if there's some way to detect if the voice is still speaking using the shell command?
My goal is to use the record command ... and see if this works, or a varation:

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 get shell("say" &&"-o"&&quote& "audio.aif"&quote&& "my text to speak here...")

[Klaus]

Hi Charles,

Do you know if there's some way to detect if the voice is still speaking using the shell command?

if "man say" won't give you a hint, I am afraid there is no ways doing so using "shell".


Best

Klaus