Re: Text to speech
Re: Text to speech
- Subject: Re: Text to speech
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:33:02 -0700
Since I didn't provide any references for that "phonemic input"
comment...
On Jul 28, 2005, at 11:54 AM, Carlos Ysunza wrote:
[You could use] phonetic input, but then you'd have to type the
phonemes yourself.
Can you give me some more info about it. Using what application, or
are
there any documentation that teach me how, etc?
Phonemic input is a little-known feature of the existing text-to-
speech engine. It (and a bunch of other prosodic controls -- that
is, commands to change the pitch, emphasis, and so on) are documented
in Inside Macintosh: Sound, chapter 4:
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/Sound/Sound-200.html>
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/Sound/Sound-201.html>
For example, my approximation of "Buenos dias":
say "[[inpt PHON]]bwEHnOWs dIYAXs[[inpt NORM]]"
Unfortunately, I may have to retract this advice, or at least put a
major qualification on it. The synthesizer doesn't have the complete
IPA phoneme set, only the subset used in American English, so you
couldn't accurately represent Spanish's "ñ". To the extent you're
willing to fake it and put up with a bad accent, it will work, though.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript and Automator Engineering
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