RevSpeak - a little less robotic?

[Jim Ault]

On 2/1/07 1:03 PM, "Viktoras Didziulis" <viktoras at ekoinf.net> wrote:

> Well, what comparable possibilities do we have in the remaining 90% of the
> world (e.g. Windows)?
> V. 
The original question was for a Mac G4 quick-utility and since I don't work
much on the Windows platform I don't have an answer.  There are 3-5 ways of
doing this on the Mac and I am sure there are ways of doing something
similar on Windows.

Hopefully someone with good experience can chime in.
Don't get me wrong about WinXP.  I use it and rely on it in one of my two
businesses.  Could not run without it.  But I mostly write Rev cross-plat
apps, some Excel, and much networking.  Nothing with voices or sound.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


>  
> -------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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