ext_sayString (somewhat OT)

[Kurt Kaufman]

Tuviah Snyder wrote:
"check out the new revIsSpeaking function in 2.0"

Does anyone know if the text-to-speech voices can be manipulated with 
in-line commands the way it was possible to do so under Mac OS 9 and 
10.0.x?

For instance, since OS 10.1, they no longer respond to pitch 
stipulations in such a way as to allow them to "sing". An example: 
paste the following into SimpleText under Mac OS 9 and the voices sing 
a well-known song; do the same in TextEdit  on OS 10.1 or newer and it 
doesn't work.

[[cmnt
For most satisfactory results, use one of the following voices:
Princess; Kathy; Junior; Fred; Ralph; Trinoids; Zarvox
]]

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