Hi Again,
this sleep insertion is inside a event and does not work in a mormal
line. That is why I posted it, it is inside an event and not a direct
in-line command...
Bruce
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 6:41 AM
Subject: Re: causing pauses in speech
Chip,
Likely you are already aware of this. Still, here goes.
My best solution, in cases where I want a pause in a spoken phrase, is to
break it into several phrases. Unfortunately, the way Window-Eyes stands
today, I haven't found any way of controlling how long that pause will be,
but at least, there will be a pause at the point of a new phrase. So, the
phrase 'he was eating his supper, late in the evening', will be like this:
Speak "He was eating his supper"
Speak "late in the evening"
I did try, in one of my apps, to put a Sleep command between the two speak
lines, but all I got, was that the speech would do both the phrases, and
then the script would 'sleep' for the given time. OK, I only have tested
this with Eloquence, so can't speak for any other synth. But I do know, that
TextAloud - from Nextup.com - does give you the full control to put pauses
of several seconds between two phrases, meaning that there should be chance
of doing so; only that Window-Eyes might not open up for that kind of
control of the synths.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allison and Chip Orange" <acora...@comcast.net>
To: <gw-scripting@gwmicro.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 2:23 AM
Subject: causing pauses in speech
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for a technique which will cause pauses in a long string of
> speech. It will be in a situation where it's very likely all the
> punctuation will be enabled, so simply placing some punctuation in the
> string isn't likely to help, just cause more to listen to.
>
> my only thought, was to turn off all the punctuation, add punctuation to
> the
> string (maybe just a comma between parts will be enough, my experiments
> seem
> to show that anything else, or more than one doesn't do any better), speak
> the string, and then turn back on punctuation.
>
> The trouble with this approach is the timing; if something else is
> speaking
> when I do this, it will lose it's punctuation; if something is speaking
> afterwards, it may not have it's punctuation.
>
> luckily, I'm doing this as a result of a hot key, so maybe the timing
> isn't
> as much of an issue, I'm just not sure.
>
> anyway, does anyone have any thoughts or any better technique?
>
> thanks.
>
> Chip
>
