Speech in standalone - help!

Chris Carroll-Davis chris at carroll-davis.co.uk
Fri Apr 1 03:18:58 EST 2005


Sarah -

thanks for this tip.  I'll try this and let you know!

Chris


On 1 Apr 2005, at 04:58, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

>> 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
>
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