[jawsscripts] Re: Speaking a text with a specified voice?
- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:56:10 +0200
Yes, Eloquence is not enough because I want the text spoken in Romanian,
which is not offered by Eloquence, but only by other synthesizers.
--Octavian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 4:38 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Speaking a text with a specified voice?
> 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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