You could use SAPI like this:
' SapiSpeak
wScript.Sleep 2000
strText = "Please wait while we get ready for lunch! "
Set objVoice = CreateObject("SAPI.SpVoice")
objVoice.Speak strText
hth
Jeff Weiss
From: Chip Orange [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 10:41 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Using a secondary voice for speech messages
Hi David,
I absolutely agree with you about the need for this. I've tried to add it to a
couple of my apps, but not had a lot of luck, because the WE object model just
doesn't support this idea.
It does support it just a little, in that the second parameter of the speak
method allows you to specify whether it should be spoken in the screen, mouse,
or keyboard voice settings. This requires the user to go and alter these voice
settings (which they may not want to do), and the only thing it allows you to
change is the basic pitch or tone of the synthesizer in use, but you cannot use
more than one synthesizer concurrently.
So, I tried to do this in my apps without requiring the user to alter the
keyboard, mouse, or screen voices, and even without changing synthes I ran into
the problem Jim brings up: there's some delay introduced even when staying with
the same synthesizer. If you try to change synthesizers the delay is
intolerable.
If you stay with the same synth, and you want this just to happen automatically
without requiring the user to go alter their basic 3 voice settings, it's very
difficult to determine which changes to speech parameters will actually produce
a noticib le change in the sound of the voice. You can look at my app named
Word Advanced Features for some code where I try to deal with this
automatically, but I've come to believe it may be better just to ask the user
to dedicate one of the mouse or keyboard voices to this function, and then ask
them to make the changes they wish, so that they will be able to notice the
difference in voice sound.
Hth,
Chip
From: David [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 7:56 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Using a secondary voice for speech messages
Allright, you developers,
Here is another tricky question. Hope someone has a solution, as it would have
improved my projects a bit.
Le'ts for samplification say, that a user is operating his computer by
Eloquence Reed. Like many users actually are doing.
My app sends a few messages to the synthesizer, like status messages in given
operations, or resulting messages from other operations. Since they are all
sent to the same synth, it is likely it only will drown in the amount of other
activity the user is performing. And, he may not be able to discern what the
message is about. This could specially be the case, when an app is performing
some activity in the background, or in a separate window, and the user
currently is reading a document. Now, if the status message from the app pops
in, right in the middle of the document reading, either the user will think it
may be part of the document, or he may experience a break-down of the speech
altogether.
It would have many benefits, if the app could have its "internal" messages sent
to another voice, available on the user's system. Now, with the
Speak
command, in WE, is there a way to redirect the output to a secondary synth or
voice? Or, is there a "back-door" workaround to this issue?
I greatly would welcome any ideas you all may have, and maybe you have implied
any such solution in your apps already, and could please share some techniques?
Thanks alot,
