Speech in standalone - help!

[Sarah Reichelt]

> I need some advice on how to get speech working in a standalone app.  
> I'm working on a (for me) big video script-writing utility that I want 
> to feature a preview facility using text-to-speech.  (OS X only)
>
> Now... speech works easily in development version running with Rev, 
> but when I build a standalone, it fails.
>
> Here is a simple rev stack with one button and one field:    
> www.chriscd.dsl.pipex.com/Speech_test.zip
>
> The development stack works fine.
>
> The OS X app doesn't work.  I *did* select speech as an option in 
> standalone maker, but no external resources seem to be copied over.  I 
> note that on the Windows side, "revspeech.dll" gets copied to 
> destination.  Should there not be some kind of OS X equivalent 
> (presumably, "revspeech.bundle" ?)  I tried manually copying this file 
> to the application root, but still nothing.  What am I doing wrong?
>
Some versions of Rev had a problem copying OS X externals to the 
applications and then sometimes wouldn't even use them if you copied 
them manually.

You need to open the OS X application bundle after it is built - 
right-click or control-click on the application and choose "Show 
Package Contents". Burrow down through the folders: Contents -> MacOS 
-> externals
I would guess that the externals folder is empty - copy the 
revspeech.bundle manually to this folder and try it again. If this 
still doesn't work, alter your "enableLibraries" handler to point to 
the right place and see if that helps.

Upgrading to the latest version of Rev will also solve this :-)

Cheers,
Sarah