RevSpeak - a little less robotic?

[Viktoras Didziulis]

Well, what comparable possibilities do we have in the remaining 90% of the
world (e.g. Windows)? 
V. 
 
-------Original Message------- 
 
From: Jim Ault 
Date: 02/01/07 22:55:52 
To: How to use Revolution 
Subject: Re: RevSpeak - a little less robotic? 
 
On 2/1/07 11:51 AM, "Gregory Lypny" <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca> wrote: 
> I started to tinker with the RevSpeak to create a little novelty 
> stack to help me practice hitting the right notes on the first three 
> strings of the guitar. (It's a drill to improvise in any position on 
> the neck). 
> 
> I created a handler that will say different notes at random, for 
> example, "Two high C" means play high C on the second string. I 
> substitued "eh" for "A" so that it's pronounced as long "A". 
> Looping this would then create the exercise (which could probably be 
> tolerated for no more than three minutes). 
> 
> I was wondering if there's a way to make the voice sound a little 
> more human. I'm doing this on an iBook G4. 
 
Probably would be more flexible to use Applescript and the OSX Text To 
Speech, where you have a whole list of voices. See System prefs:Speech 
 
on test --copy this into a Rev script to listen 
put quote into q 
put " say "&q&" It's time to wake up, it's time to wake up!"&q& \ 
" using "&q&"cellos"&q into cmd 
do cmd as applescript 
end test 
 
Now you could make your notes lines in a field 
say "It's time to wake up" using "cellos" 
say "It's time to play music" using "ralph" 
 
As a test------ 
paste this into an Applescript Script Editor window and click 'Run' 
 
say "Good morning Al." using "Whisper" 
delay 2 
say "Al, it's time to rise and shine." using "Fred" 
delay 1 
say "The current time is" using "Vicky" 
say (time string of (current date)) using "Vicky" 
delay 2 
say "Wake up sleepy head" using "Trinoids" 
delay 2 
say "You asked us to wake you up at this time." using "Victoria" 
delay 2 
say "It's time to wake up, it's time to wake up!" using "cellos" 
 
 
Just google " applescript text to speech" to get many more ideas and 
refinements. 
 
 
Jim Ault 
Las Vegas 
 
 
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