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Try "waap" for "wap".
Thanks a bunch.
Does "waep" produce a hard, short "a", as in "bat"? I think it's supposed to, but it doesn't work in OS 9 in simpleText or hyperCard
Rev has a command revSpeak, so the above in Dreamcard would be:
revSpeak "waap"
Cool.
As for the text you provided, it seems to work (at least under OS X), although I'm not sure what all of it is supposed to do; except that the '%' sign is named - it says "I like percent chocolate..."
From Apple's docs:
Like all other phonemes, the "silence" phoneme (%) and the "breath intake" phoneme (@) can be lengthened or shortened using the > and < symbols. The prosodic control symbols (/, \, <, and >) can be concatenated to provide exaggerated or cumulative effects.
Also...
To indicate that the Speech Manager should revert to textual interpretation of a text buffer, embed the [[inpt TEXT]] command. For example, passing the string
Hello, I am [[inpt PHON]]mAYkAXl[[inpt TEXT]], the talking computer.
to SpeakString, SpeakText, or SpeakBuffer would result in the generation of the sentence, "Hello, I am Michael, the talking computer."
Some, but not all, speech synthesizers allow you to embed a command that causes the Speech Manager to interpret a buffer of text as a series of allophones.
Also...
& (ampersand) Forces no addition of silence between phonemes No additional effect
: (colon) End of clause, no change in pitch Short pause follows
, (comma) Continuation rise in pitch Short pause follows
... (ellipsis) End of clause, no change in pitch Pause follows
! (exclam) End-of-sentence sharp fall in pitch Pause follows
- (hyphen) End of clause, no change in pitch Short pause follows
( (parenleft) Start reduced pitch range Short pause precedes
There's more, but you get the idea.
I might have gotten the syntax wrong with the percent sign. Did Rev OS X pronounce "My name is Michael, the talking computer," correctly? Is it possible the other symbols worked correctly, now that you know what they are supposed to do?
The ancient computer in my wife's classroom will handle OS 9, maximum, if that. Would someone try the same text with the OS 9 version of Rev, and Macintalk Pro, please?
Meanwhile, if I'm getting the syntax wrong and there is a way to make these pronunciation modifiers to work properly in HC, I'd like to know about it.
I don't mean to be lazy. I'll try it myself in my copy of DreamCard, but it's still unfamiliar.
Best regards, thanks in advance, etc.,
Tim Miller
On Jan 10, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Timothy Miller wrote:
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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,,, wopper
This works chocolate cake
The de-emphasis code here works: chocolate [[emph - ]] cake
None 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?
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