Guess I'd better clarify. TinyFugue is a mud client that lets you
connect. And one of its featuers I like is that you can type in a
command /recall and then a number of lines of text, and it will read
those back to you.
Heh.
Jane
On Mar 19, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Kafka's Daytime wrote:
Hi Jane,
No no, I need the thoughts on what the app should do...will help me
avoid building something that doesn't work for you. Thanks for the
direction and I'll check out TinyFugue too. It seems I've done
proof-of-concept, now will need to see how I can flesh it out.
Joe
On Mar 19, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote:
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
