Have you ever played around with Linux and speech, Joe? I had a hack
put together years ago, and if I understand it right, it simply read
the output. I mean, it read whatever was added to the screen. That
includes if I usea program that let me review text--TinyFugue is an
example, it would read that and then it would keep right on reading
whatevert text had come up in the meantime.
rkght now with terminal to read text in the window you have to
interact with it and kind of guess where you last where and read from
there. Well that's not entirely accurate either. You have to read
from the end backwardes.
So I gues what would be helpful is yes to have something that will
read whatever pops up onto the screen automatically. That would
make some thigns more fun on here, like playing on mucks and maybe
even playing te3xt adventure ganmes. Course, I could probably use
Lynx if I wanted, too.
Anyhowm I hope this long-winded email told you somehting useful. :)
Jane
On Mar 19, 2006, at 3:17 AM, Kafka's Daytime wrote:
*grin* A front end for the terminal shouldn't be too terribly hard.
So it should just speak automatically whenever new information
appears? i.e. the audible equivalent of what's happening visually?
Give me some basics on what it should do and I'll look at taking a
crack at it in the reasonably near future...even if it's just a
stopgap i.e. Apple might be looking at enhancing Terminal access
with VO and that's probably the most desirable/elegant solution.
Let me know your thoughts.
Joe
On Mar 19, 2006, at 4:11 AM, BlindTech of BlindTechs.Net wrote:
dude! You! rock!
now who gots dibs on writing a terminal app that speaks
automatically?
you got that covered too???
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On Mar 19, 2006, at 1:41 AM, Kafka's Daytime wrote:
Dear All,
I took a look at Lips today - which I know some of you have been
using regularly - with the intention of adding some of the new
features requested. Since Lips is written in AppleScript (using
AppleScript Studio) I decided, instead, to build a speech-to-
audio application in Objective-C/Cocoa. Information follows. Link
to download can be found at the end of this message.
Enjoy,
Joe
Cocoa Speech KDREV (CS-KDREV) - Convert text to audio file with
fine control over synthesized speech settings.
Cocoa Speech KDREV (CS-KDREV) is built on example code from Apple
and has the features of Lips (http://www.superpixel.ch/software/
lips/) plus additional features (and more), requested by members
of the Macvisionaries discussion list (David, Cheryl, Jane,
Scott, et al).
CS-KDREV is written in Objective-C/Cocoa and is a Universal
Application i.e. natively-compatible with both PowerPC and Intel-
based Macs.
Installing CS-KDREV
Unzip CS-KDREV and place the application anywhere on your Mac.
CS-KDREV Features
Listen to text read by any of the installed speech voices or
render text to audio file.
CS-KDREV plays the system beep when conversion to audio file is
complete.
Enjoy fine control of Speech Voice settings. Adjust speech rate,
pitch, pitch modulation and volume.
Using CS-KDREV
Quick Start
Type or paste text into the text field.
At launch, CS-KDREV defaults to the System Voice. You can select
any of the installed speech engines with the "Voice" pop up menu.
To audition text with the selected speech engine and settings,
click the "Start Speaking" button. To render text to audio file
click the "Save as File..." button. An audio file (AIFF 22.05
Mono 16 bit) will be saved at the selected location.
Additional Information
The CS-KDREV window includes two tabs: The "Voice" and
"Parameters" Tabs. The "Voice" tab is selected by default at
launch. When the Voice tab is selected, you can navigate to the
the "Voice" pop up menu and select from any of the installed
speech voices.
Click the "Parameters" tab to access additional speech settings.
In the "Parameters" pane you can adjust speech rate, pitch base,
pitch modulation and volume. Each of these settings are displayed/
adjusted in an edit text field. Edit text fields are populated
with default settings whenever you select or reselect a voice. If
you change settings for a particular voice and want to restore
the default settings, simply reselect the voice (in the "Voice"
pane using the pop up menu) and default settings will be restored.
NOTE: The current version of CS-KDREV is a document-based
application. If there is text in the main text field when you
quit the application you will be asked if "...you want to save
the changes you made to the document "Untitled"". If you do not
wish to save the contents of the main text field to a file click
the "Don't Save" button.
Support
This software is free software, is provided as is and is not
formally supported. That being said, you may wish to send any
questions or feature requests to the macvisionaries
(www.macvisionaries.com) "Dicsuss" list or directly to the
developer: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Download Cocoa Speech KDREV (CS-KDREV):
http://www.kafkasdaytime.com/cs_kdrev.zip
