and you can use this directly in any text. It also handles pronunciation and many other speech tasks. So, if you want to have alex and Victorya tell a story with Victoria being the female character and Alex being the Male character, you could embed commands to do that. I don't know but think that other synths have similar command sets but I don't think you can embed them in windows documents.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:36 AM Subject: Re: Fwd: Adjusting Say Speech In Terminal Way to go Jane! Nice one. Esther On Decr 05, 2007, at 05:23PM, Jane Jordan wrote: >Did I say I was calling it a night? Ha! > >Excerpted text from my brief, but useful! correspondence with Apple's >Accessibility team. > >Jane > > > >Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Accessibility <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: December 5, 2007 3:39:49 PM EST >> Subject: Re: Adjusting Say Speech In Terminal >> >> Hi Jane: >> >> Check out this site for information on how to embed commands into >> the text to speed it up or change other attributes: >> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/SpeechSynthesisProgrammingGuide/index.html >> >> Embedded commands are described in the section titled "Techniques >> for Customizing Synthesized Speech" - > "Use Embedded Speech >> Commands to Fine-Tune Spoken Output. >> >> For example, to set the rate of the spoken text to 300 words per >> minute use something like: >> >> "[[rate 300]] This text should be spoken fast." >> >> >> >> >> > >
