Re: Text to speech
Re: Text to speech
- Subject: Re: Text to speech
- From: Emile Schwarz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:53:29 +0200
I was working at Apple Computer Fance when that technology was developped (an
Apple IIgs...) and saw (heard) a demonstration ot it (around 1989/1990).
I never heard of a French version, _BUT_ there was a Spanish version (*) of it
(era pre-Mac OS X).
The problem lies - like many other problems - with money _AND_ priority. If the
priority is high, then it may be possible to get money + time to do the language
porting.
Also, if - say Windows in Long Horn - will provide English, Spanish, French,
German and Japanese - I think that we will get it in Mac OS X soon (too).
Of course, I would be delighted to be wrong (there is a French version of TTS /
STT), so tell us if a French version is available.
Regards,
Emile
* in the US domestic version of the then available Mac OS (7.5 ? 8 ? 9 ? I do
not recall)
email@hidden wrote:
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 01:53:42 -0700
From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Text to speech
To: AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
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On 7/22/05 11:49 PM, "Carlos Ysunza" <email@hidden> wrote:
I¹m 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 can¹t 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
can¹t 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 ³Mac OS X
speaks your language², but if I start the Finder in Spanish, the pane ³Text to
speech² is dimmed, there¹s 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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