[jawsscripts] Re: Speaking a text with a specified voice?
- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:31:09 +0200
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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