Hi,
This is actually a question about DreamCard for OS 9... I asked about this on the HC list too. Sorry about the duplication.
I'm revising an old HC stack I wrote for my wife to help her elementary school students practice phonics. She has an elderly macintosh in her classroom, which could be dedicated to this use, so HC is perfect, really. The stack presents nonsense syllables, mostly. It shuffles different word beginnings to the same word endings, vice versa, etc.
Maybe I can upgrade the ancient machine to the point that a DreamCard standalone would run on it.
I'm trying to use the saytext external for HC to get the computer to pronounce the nonsense syllables. It's pretty good most of the time, but some nonsense syllables get mispronounced. For example, "wap" gets mispronounced as "wop" (No slurs against Italians intended.)
I've tried modifying the text that gets passed to sayText, with little luck. According to Apple, macinTalk pronunciation can be altered by a long list of modifiers.
The commas here do produce pauses.
wap, woop,, wap,,, whap,,, wopperThis works
chocolate cakeThe de-emphasis code here works:
chocolate [[emph - ]] cakeNone of the following work, though. The symbols either get ignored or pronounced literally.
I like % choc=o=late @ cake I like chocolate [[/ ]] cake I like chocolate [[/]] cake I like chocolate / cake Hello, I am [[inpt PHON]]mAYkAXl[[inpt TEXT]], the talking computer.
As far as I can tell, I reached the limits of what the sayText external can do. Apparently, it only passess a small subset of all possible pronunciation modifiers to macinTalk.
How about DreamCard. I assume it has some text to speech ability. (true?) Does it allow more pronunciation modifiers than HyperCard?
Thanks,
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