From: Daniel Padilla (daniel.padilla_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu May 06 2004 - 15:46:44 PDT
the strings are:
"fred", "kath", "junr", "prin", "whis", "ralf", "zarv", "gnws", "bnws"
be sure to use && to add any text after that, using only one & will
add the text without a space, so the voice strong could go
unrecognized.
D.
> Got a question on scripting in Dashboard. I got a small script
> that uses SpeakText and MacInTalk to read the text that's currently
> highlighted. The script works fine, but I cannot figure out how to get
> it to set the voice properly. The original script that does set the
> voice properly does so with the following:
>
> local vox := "[[svox kath]]";
>
> Seems simple enough, but I would like to have a few different
> scripts that will read the text using the different voices (my
> favorite is Zarvox). However changing the above line to read
>
> local vox := "[[svox zarv]]";
>
> doesn't work, it ends up choosing Fred's voice instead. I've tried
> 'Zarv' and 'Zarvox' as well, (also tried Ralph, Ralp, ralp -- same
> thing).
>
> Does anyone know what the internal title of the various voices
> are? Also, are there other modifications to the voice you can do from
> within a script like this? I am thinking somewhere I'd seen various
> ways of manipulating speaktext programmatically, but can't recall
> where or what....
>
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