On 15 May 2014, at 15:53, Gary L. Wade <[email protected]> wrote:
> German Anna, Chinese Mei-Jia, and Korean Yuna all speak my English text > (Shakespeare, actually, in my test case) with accents from each language. > I also verified Mei-Jia speaks Chinese from a Chinese play in my app, too. > Do you get any calls in your delegate methods (you have set the delegate > on your speech synthesizer instance, right)? No, no delegate yet. > One difference I’ve done is > to initWithVoice: with nil and later call setVoice:. Also, I haven’t > tried this sequence myself, but I noticed in your sample code you’re > calling phonemesFromText: right after startSpeakingString:. Maybe > phonemesFromText: is short-circuiting the speaking? An interesting point. But when I replace Anna with Bruce (one of the preinstalled voices), he speaks and I also get the phonemes. (still not using any delegate). Must be something else. Just added a delegate with speechSynthesizer:didEncounterErrorAtIndex:ofString:message: and speechSynthesizer:willSpeakWord:ofString: but neither of these gets called with Anna. With Bruce the latter method does get called. Still puzzled. > It’s been a while since I’ve worked on my app, but I remember some calls will > stop any > current speaking. > -- > Gary L. Wade > http://www.garywade.com/ > > On 5/14/2014, 11:15 PM, "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> >> On 15 May 2014, at 08:41, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On May 14, 2014, at 6:24 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> But the only thing in 10.9.2 I found was NSSpeechSynthesizer, which >>>> has 24 voices (which is nice) but all 24 have VoiceLanguage = >>>> VoiceLocaleIdentifier = en_US (which seems rather odd). >>> >>> The non-English voices are optional downloads — you can get them via >>> the Dictation/Speech system pref pane. Pull down the System Voice pop-up >>> and choose Customize… >> >> Thanks. Just did that. >> >> Did set System Voice to "Anna" (a German voice). >> Now, when I select some (German) text and do Control-Click → Speech → >> Start Speaking it just works. Very good. >> >> But this: >> >> NSString *voiceIdentifier = >> @"com.apple.speech.synthesis.voice.anna.premium"; >> NSString *text = @"Der Osten ist rot."; >> NSSpeechSynthesizer *syn = [ [ NSSpeechSynthesizer alloc ] >> initWithVoice: voiceIdentifier ]; // non-nil >> BOOL ok = [ syn startSpeakingString: text ]; // returns YES, >> but does >> NOT speak >> NSString *pp = [ syn phonemesFromText: text ]; // returns empty >> string >> >> does not work as expected. >> Same problem with all other voices I just downloaded. Only the default >> (en-US) voices work as they should. >> >> What am I missing? >> >> Gerriet. > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
