Re: getting a list of voices -- somebody's messed up...
Re: getting a list of voices -- somebody's messed up...
- Subject: Re: getting a list of voices -- somebody's messed up...
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 00:48:52 +0100
on 9/7/04 11:52 pm, Martin Orpen at email@hidden wrote:
>
"Good News" is in my folder (10.3.4), but it's missing from the voices list
>
in System Prefs.
Hmm, there's something funny going on with the "Good News" voice - and I may
have found a method of getting the correct voice names without resorting to
UI scripting:
$ strings
/System/Library/Speech/Voices/Bruce.SpeechVoice/Contents/Resources/VoiceDesc
ription
-->
jgala
Bruce
,I sure like being inside this fancy computer
$ strings
/System/Library/Speech/Voices/BadNews.SpeechVoice/Contents/Resources/VoiceDe
scription
-->
jmtk3
Bad News
WThe light you see at the end of the tunnel is the headlamp of a fast
approaching train.
And, looks as if somebody at Apple has screwed up:
$ strings
/System/Library/Speech/Voices/GoodNews.SpeechVoice/Contents/Resources/VoiceD
escription
-->
jmtk3
Fred
,I sure like being inside this fancy computer
So it looks to me like "Good News" voice is really a duplicate of "Fred" -
and running "diff" on the files confirms this.
But, the "good news" is that you can use the results of the second line of
the "strings" command to get the proper name of the voice.
Regards
--
Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd -- The Image Specialists
http://www.idea-digital.com
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