[jawsscripts] Re: Speaking a text with a specified voice?
- From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:38:48 +1000
Octavian, just curious, but
why exactly, did you find the VCTX_JAWSCURSOR, etc, constants in .jsh,
unhelpful to you? is that because you really want the profiles switched, and
switching voices that eloquence offers is not sufficient for what you want?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 6:31 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Speaking a text with a specified voice?
> Thanks Artur. I will try using those functions. Never heard about them.
> :-)
>
> --Octavian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Artur Räpp" <rtr@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 9:05 AM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Speaking a text with a specified voice?
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> May be you can use smm* functions.
>> Unfortunately I can't say how exactly. I can change only the language of
>> current syntheziser.
>>
>> -- example script --
>> Script test1 ()
>>
>> var
>> string temporary
>> let temporary = smmMarkupString ("TERE", smmGetSpeechMarkupTextOptions
>> (0x60), 2, 1, 1, "Arial", 19, 0, 255, "en", "68" )
>> saystring (temporary) ; for testing
>>
>> say (temporary, 1, true)
>>
>> EndScript
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Artur
>>
>> 10.02.2013 18:22, Octavian Rasnita kirjutas:
>>> Thanks, but as I said, I tried in 2 ways:
>>>
>>> 1. SetActiveVoiceProfileByName ("Carmen2")
>>>
>>> 2. I also tried using SetSynth ("eloq") but it didn't help either.
>>>
>>> The problem is that when a new voice is activated, it shuts Jaws down so
>>> the
>>> text spoken with the previous voice is not spoken at all.
>>>
>>> --Octavian
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Dang Manh Cuong" <dangmanhcuong@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 3:37 PM
>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Speaking a text with a specified voice?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>> Use SetSynth to swich to the synthesizer of choice, and use
>>>> SetVoicePerson
>>>> to set name.
>>>> HTH
>>>> Cuong
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 3:07 PM
>>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Speaking a text with a specified voice?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Stefan and Doug. Unfortunately it seems that there is no way to
>>>>> instruct JAWS to speach a piece of text with a specified synthesizer,
>>>>> although I was sure that this should be a simple thing.
>>>>>
>>>>> --Octavian
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Doug Lee" <doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 12:45 AM
>>>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Speaking a text with a specified voice?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> SpeechInUse() actually tells you only whether or not speech, as
>>>>>> opposed to Braille output, is being used by the JAWS user. It does
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> tell you when something is actually being said.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 08:05:57PM +0200, Stefan Moisei wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> The function SpeechInUse() should tell you if jaws is speaking or
>>>>>> not.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Octavian Rasnita
>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 5:29 PM
>>>>>> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Speaking a text with a specified voice?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it possible to create a JAWS script that speaks a text with a
>>>>>> specified
>>>>>> installed voice, then after it finishes, switch back to the default
>>>>>> voice?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> SetActiveVoiceProfileByName ("Carmen2")
>>>>>> SayString(sTrText)
>>>>>> SetActiveVoiceProfileByName ("Eloquence")
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But nothing is spoken. When the function
>>>>>> SetActiveVoiceProfileByName()
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> called the second time, it stops immediately the speech.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have found this by doing:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> SetActiveVoiceProfileByName ("Carmen2")
>>>>>> SayString(sTrText)
>>>>>> Delay (50, TRUE )
>>>>>> SetActiveVoiceProfileByName ("Eloquence")
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This time the text was spoken as wanted, but I wasn't able to use the
>>>>>> computer for a few seconds after that, because of the Delay()
>>>>>> function.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess that it is not possible to calculate how much time it would
>>>>>> take
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> speak a certain text with a specified voice, but isn't possible to
>>>>>> detect
>>>>>> somehow when JAWS finished speaking, in order to be able to switch
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> voice
>>>>>> in that moment?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I also tried using SetSynth ("eloq") but it didn't help either.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --Octavian
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