Speech

Speech lets you use the cocoa speech synthesizer.

"hi i'm talking with the default voice now, i guess".speak;

First argument is always the voice channel number, second the value

Speech.setSpeechVoice(0,14);

Speech.setSpeechPitch(0, 40); //pitch in MIDI Num

Speech.setSpeechRate(0, 10);

Speech.setSpeechVolume(0,0.8);

Speech.setSpeechPitchMod(0, 200);

Two actions can be applied:

Speech.wordAction = {arg voiceNum;

//i.postln;

// the currently speaking text may not be changed

//Speech.setSpeechPitch(voiceNum,[41,60].choose);

//Speech.setSpeechRate(voiceNum,[60,80, 10].choose);

};

Speech.doneAction_({arg voiceNum;

Speech.setSpeechPitch(voiceNum,[41,48,40,43,30,60].choose);

});

Pause the speech while speaking: 1=pause, 0= start

Speech.pause(0,1);

Initialization happens automatically, by default with one voice channel.

You may explicitly initalize with more channels, up to 128:

(

Speech.init(64);

Task({

64.do ({arg i;

[0.1, 0.18, 0.2].choose.wait;

Speech.setSpeechRate(i,[90, 30, 60].choose);

Speech.setSpeechVolume(i,0.07);

"no this is private. float . boolean me. char[8] ".speak(i);

});

}).play;

)

//jan.t@kandos.de 04/2003