It's still held together with duct tape and string...but I think it
has a good chance of turning into something useful. :-)
Joe
On Mar 19, 2006, at 1:32 PM, BlindTech of BlindTechs.Net wrote:
dude, please send it to me, I'll give youu some cracker jacks.
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On Mar 19, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Kafka's Daytime wrote:
*chuckle* It sounds like this is a need-now rather than wait-and-
see kind of thing. I'll spend some time with my "watcher"
application and try some other approaches as well.
Joe
On Mar 19, 2006, at 10:42 AM, Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote:
Oh, I hope he can, even if we have to keep keyboard echo off.
Jane
On Mar 19, 2006, at 3:11 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
