[jawsscripts] Re: Speaking a text with a specified voice?
- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:38:37 +0200
Yep, I was also thinking to count the length of text and estimate how much it
would take to be spoken, but thinking better I found that this is not a
solution, because while that text is spoken there would be no possibility of
stopping it.
So finally I think that what I want is not possible, because JAWS doesn't offer
this feature.
It could work it if Jaws scripting would allow using some events like
SpeakStarted, SpeakEndedor a function like JawsIsSpeaking(), and these things
could be done if all voice synthesizers were able to report these events back
to Jaws.
But I am sure it is not possible for the moment, because I am thinking how that
"detect language" feature of Jaws work.
If "Detect language" feature is active, Jaws switches immediately to another
voice when it finds a text marked as beeing in that language, but it does that
only among the languages available in the current voice synthesizer.
If the language is not available, Jaws announces that the text is in that
language, but it continues to speak with the current voice.
So Jaws is not able to load the new voice synthesizer and speak with it, then
when it finished that piece of text in that language load another synthesizer
and speak with it.
And I guess that using the Jaws scripts I can't do it either.
--Octavian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Snowbarger" <Snowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 5:23 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Speaking a text with a specified voice?
> The problem may be that you need to be able to determine when jaws is done
> speaking, so you can switch voices only when the previous statement is fully
> spoken.
> But, we don't have a way to know when that happens. And, even if you did,
> your script will take quite a long time to run, and no other key strokes
> will be processed until you hear the whole thing, or cancel speech.
>
> I remember hunting for a way to see when the synth finished, and found none.
> I ended up using a syllable counter, which I had written for another
> situation, and using the sylable count, and the speech rate to estimate the
> amount of time required. Horribly clunky, and not always sufficient. And,
> language dependent? Hmmm.
> Yep.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 10:19 AM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Speaking a text with a specified voice?
>
>
> Oh yes, it would be great if it would be possible to make Jaws speak with a
> specified voice alias. Actually, this is what I tried, but without good
> results.
>
> --Octavian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Soronel Haetir" <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 1:42 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Speaking a text with a specified voice?
>
>
>> Maybe not a specified synthesizer but how about a specified voice
>> alias? I would suspect that functionality to be present and if so you
>> might be able to make it work for your needs.
>>
>> On 2/9/13, Octavian Rasnita <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 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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