[jawsscripts] Re: Speaking a text with a specified voice?

  • From: "Dang Manh Cuong" <dangmanhcuong@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:56:16 +0700

Hi
So sorry because of my misunderstand. I don't have any experience of 
SetActiveProfile function. However, you can do the simula thing to a profile 
by use the functions wich start by "setVoice"
Hope that help, and again, sorry for my misunderstand.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 3:36 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Speaking a text with a specified voice?


>I gave the code in my first message. Here it is again:
>
> SetActiveVoiceProfileByName ("Carmen2")
> SayString(sTrText)
> SetActiveVoiceProfileByName ("Eloquence")
>
> The first line changes the voice to a specified voice profile, then it 
> should speak the message and then it should change the voice profile back 
> to Eloquence.
> But the third line is executed immediately, and when it is executed, the 
> previously synthesizer is stopped so it doesn't speak anything.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Octavian
>
> --Octavian
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dang Manh Cuong" <dangmanhcuong@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 10:22 AM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Speaking a text with a specified voice?
>
>
>> Hi
>> I don't do that for a long time, but if you could send me your code, I 
>> think
>> I could help you.
>> Cuong.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 11:22 PM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Speaking a text with a specified voice?
>>
>>
>>> 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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