TTS, RR and OS X

[Kurt Kaufman]

Dar Scott wrote:
 >
 > > [[rate 10000]]u
 >
 >Perhaps the truncation is related to this.

Yes; most likely.  It's a workaround to enable the OS 8/9 Speech Manager 
to accept  >  ca. 40 pitch stipulations within one spoken string (I hope 
I have my terminology is clear enough here). Apparently, a voice will 
simply revert to a monotone after about 40 stipulations.  So I include a 
comma which will allow me to start a "new" string (within the same "say" 
command) with more pitch stipulations .....but this comma interferes 
with the rhythm of the "song".....so I include a single "u" sound at an 
extremely fast rate right before the comma to speed it up (yes, I hear 
you all groaning, but it works, or. at least it did in OS 8/9).  It very 
well may be that OS X doesn't like this workaround/kludge/abomination, 
and I'd have to figure out another way of bypassing the 40-pitch 
limitation.  However, for all I know the OS X Speech Manager doesn't 
have this  limitation (somehow I doubt that's changed, though). If I 
have the time I'll experiment to see if I can fashion another solution...

Kurt