Apple

property fred : "com.apple.speech.synthesis.voice.Fred"

property alex : "com.apple.speech.synthesis.voice.Alex"

property cvoice : false -- false is Fred, true is Alex, this is just making it easy

on run

if (cvoice) then

setVoice(alex)

else

setVoice(fred)

end if

end run

on setVoice(v)

do shell script "defaults write com.apple.VoiceOver3/default.plist SCRCategories_SCRCategorySystemWide_SCRSpeechComponentSettings_SCRVoiceIdentifier " & v

set cvoice to not cvoice

end setVoice

On 2010-11-14, at 5:19 PM, Philip Ershler wrote:

On Nov 14, 2010, at 3:03 PM, André Renault wrote:

My friend is looking to change the voice used with a simple keystroke. We got the keystroke part down, but not changing the voice. He's got two voices (for this example we'll call them Alex and Luciano). With Shift-Command-1 he'd like Alex and Shift-Command-2 he'd like Luciano.

Can someone provide a pointer for this? I've looked through the VoiceOver dictionary and didn't see anything for this - is this some 'defaults write' command?

In ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.VoiceOver3/default.pist there is an entry for

SCRCategories_SCRCategorySystemWide_SCRSpeechComponentSettings_SCRVoiceIdentifier

which is a string. On my machine it is set to

com.apple.speech.synthesis.voice.Fred

I assume that this could be used with defaults write to change the voice.

HTH, Phil

References:
	>Changing voice in VoiceOver (From: André Renault <email@hidden>)