Hi Alex, This is a late reply, but I'll just add to what Chris described. You cannot access any of the default VO settings when you use the "say" command. Also, although you can use all of the embedded speech commands (described in the link to the Developer's Document that Chris gave you) as part of the "say" command, with arguments to control speaking rate, volume, etc. between the double set of left and right brackets, you cannot specify the voice that is used as an embedded command. You can, however, specify the voice as a variable in the command line use of the "say" command in Terminal.
For example, I could type or paste in the following command in Terminal, and press return. say -v Fred "[[rate 400; volm +0.2]]Do you have anything you want to say?" The result would be to use the Fred voice, speaking the quoted phrase with the rate and volume modifications specified by the embedded commands that are enclosed within the double layer of brackets, also within the quoted text. If you want to play around with voice selections, you can do that in Automator. Some of the actions like "Speak Text" or "Text to Audio File" have a pop up menu where you can select the voice to be used. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Sep 13, 9:18 am, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > Ahh, I guess I missed the point that you wanted to use their default VO > settings. Not sure there is a way to do that unless you pull their > preferences and use the same ones for your speech. Not that there is > also a set of commands to give in-text directives so you can do > > say "[[pbas 50;rate 500]]Hello there" > > Still doesn't pull those settings from the VO defaults but at least you > can set anything you want. Details of other commands here: > > https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/userexperience... > > CB > > On 9/13/12 7:42 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Yes you could, but what if the user's voice is not what I set? I don't want > > this for just me, it has to work for anyone who uses the package. > > Interfacing directly with vo is the only way to do that. > > On Sep 12, 2012, at 5:31 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I guess since I don't know Applescript I keep going to the shell. You can > >> set the rate and voice for the say command using various flags: > > >> say -v Bruce "help" -r 400 > > >> So wouldn't you be able to do something like > > >> os.system("say -v Bruce 'help' -r 400") > > >> CB > > >> On 9/12/12 4:09 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > >>> Yes, like this: > >>> import os > >>> os.system("""osascript'say "hello"'""") > >>> The problem is that say does not honor vo settings. For instance, vo uses > >>> Serena on my system, but my default voice is Alex, so I know the > >>> difference (particularly helpful in chess). I want to use vo itself so > >>> that all settings are used, regardless of the system's defaults. I know > >>> it can be done, as this output command is in vo's dictionary in script > >>> editor, I just don't know the right syntax to use. > >>> On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>> Can you use Python to execute shell scripts? Then you could invoke > > >>>> say "sometext" to get your speech output from Python. > > >>>> CB > > >>>> On 9/11/12 6:17 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > >>>>> Hi all, > >>>>> I'd like to useosascriptto tell vo to output text, which would be part > >>>>> of a python module. Long story short, can someone provide a quick > >>>>> example of the exact syntax? I thought it might be: > >>>>>osascripttell voiceover to output "hello world" > >>>>> but I'm guessing at punctuation and exact wording. Any help would be > >>>>> great. Thanks. > > >>>>> Have a great day, > >>>>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > >>>>> [email protected] > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
