[jawsscripts] Re: Speaking a text with a specified voice?
- From: "Dang Manh Cuong" <dangmanhcuong@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:37:56 +0700
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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