Thanks Bruce and David for the responses. David,
the sleep between speak commands will work, but there has to be nothing speaking at the moment (a lot of queued speech will eat up all the time you are sleeping), and you have to make the sleep very long. for instance: silence speak "he is eating his dinner" sleep 5*1000 speak "in the evening." that sleep is long enough for you to hear it's effect. if you comment it out, the speech will happen without a break between the two, so you can hear the sleep does work. I haven't had much luck with breaking speech into multiple speak commands. it adds a very very slight pause, but not much of one. Sorry Bruce, but you can't use XML SAPI commands in WE speech. If I add sleep commands between half a dozen speak commands though, and the user doesn't want to hear this block of speech, unfortunately pressing the silence key for them doesn't work; because it could happen during one of the sleeps, and then it would pick up speaking again. thanks though for the ideas. Chip -----Original Message----- From: BT [mailto:b...@fltg.net] Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 12:23 PM To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com Subject: Re: causing pauses in speech 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 >
