On Sunday, April 14, 2002, at 02:17 AM, Kurt Kaufman wrote:
> on mouseUp > put "The text I want spoken." into myVar > Do "say " "e& myVar "e& " using " "e& Princess "e > as Applescript > end mouseUp > This is fun! And can be handy for a mock-up before recording is made. AND you can use English phonemic and "prosodic" symbols. Just "say" things like this: [[inpt PHON]] DUH kAEt IHn ~DUH hAEt [[inpt TEXT]] The table I found to do this is here: http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/Sound/Sound-201.html See also, http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/Sound/Sound-200.html It is missing the er vowel (as in bird) which is needed for most dialects of American English. You can approximate it with "<<<IX>>r". It also doesn't have syllabic l, m and n. I used ">l", ">>>m", and ">>n" for those below, but they may not work in other contexts. The last is often after a glottal stop and I used "<<%" for that. Some speakers in New England make a distinction between the first vowel in father and the vowel in cot, so I fiddled with the vowel there, but I doubt whether such speakers would agree with me. Here is what I got: The [[inpt PHON]]f>AAD<<<IX>>r b<<<IX>>rd [[inpt TEXT]] chased after the [[inpt PHON]] lIHd>l kIH<<%>>n %%lIHs>>n tUW DUH >>rIHD>>>m [[inpt TEXT]] I wasn't able to make it say "Loch Ness". And you can sometimes roughly approximate foreign language: [[inpt PHON]] mOWSIYmOWSIY% dOWn<<AAt<<AA dEHs k<<<AA [[inpt TEXT]] Hmmm. I have the SIL IPA fonts on my machine... Dar Scott _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
