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Re: Text to speech


  • Subject: Re: Text to speech
  • From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 01:53:42 -0700
  • Thread-topic: Text to speech

Title: Re: Text to speech
On 7/22/05 11:49 PM, "Carlos Ysunza" <email@hidden> wrote:

I’m trying to build a demo about the capacities of AppleScrip and I would like to make an application that speak  loud all the demo while do some stuff. I know how to tell the script to speak, but the problem is the language.
I can’t found any way to implement text to speech in Spanish.
I remember that under system 9 we can install a Mexican Spanish module, but I can’t found anything like that under 10.x
Does anybody knows if there are some way to do that.
Apple claims that Tiger is a world citizen, even in the web page say “Mac OS X speaks your language”, but if I start the Finder in Spanish, the pane “Text to speech” is dimmed, there’s no way to play anything.
Maybe Chris Nebel knows something about it.


The Finder? I guess you mean System Preferences/International/Languages, log out, log in.

Yes, you're right. I just tried it in French. But it doesn't seem to have anything to do with AppleScript.

Having set your main language in System Preferences/International/Languages, and logged in again, go to System Preferences/Speech/Text to Speech. Check the box "Speak selected text when the key is pressed" and choose a key combo (like cmd+F1). Select the same text as you were scripting and press the key combo. Again it speaks in a god-awful (American, if US) English reading of the text.

I'm very surprised to hear that. I'd swear there was a way to set other languages for interpretation of text-to-speech, but it sure isn't there in the Speech preferences.

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