Actually, I've been fiddling with making terminal talk
automatically. Trying several approaches, from apple scripts to
compare existing screen against a saved version, and reading the
changes, to actually modifying the bash source to make it talk. Thus
far, I've met with limited success on all fronts, but I *will* get it
eventually. Unless Joe takes this one out of my hands too *grin* The
app he just wrote for saving text to speech is another app I would
have done months ago if the XTools were actually accessible, but
since they aren't (yet) it couldn't happen, and now Joe has stepped
in and done what I was trying to do anyhow, so no complaint here, one
more thing I can delete from my todo list and move to something else.
Thanks 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
