Re: How to speak Chinese on 10.9.2
Re: How to speak Chinese on 10.9.2
- Subject: Re: How to speak Chinese on 10.9.2
- From: "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 19:34:29 +0700
On 15 May 2014, at 15:53, Gary L. Wade <email@hidden> wrote:
> German Anna, Chinese Mei-Jia, and Korean Yuna all speak my English text
> (Shakespeare, actually, in my test case) with accents from each language.
> I also verified Mei-Jia speaks Chinese from a Chinese play in my app, too.
> Do you get any calls in your delegate methods (you have set the delegate
> on your speech synthesizer instance, right)?
No, no delegate yet.
> One difference I’ve done is
> to initWithVoice: with nil and later call setVoice:. Also, I haven’t
> tried this sequence myself, but I noticed in your sample code you’re
> calling phonemesFromText: right after startSpeakingString:. Maybe
> phonemesFromText: is short-circuiting the speaking?
An interesting point. But when I replace Anna with Bruce (one of the preinstalled voices), he speaks and I also get the phonemes. (still not using any delegate).
Must be something else.
Just added a delegate with speechSynthesizer:didEncounterErrorAtIndex:ofString:message: and speechSynthesizer:willSpeakWord:ofString:
but neither of these gets called with Anna.
With Bruce the latter method does get called.
Still puzzled.
> It’s been a while since I’ve worked on my app, but I remember some calls will stop any
> current speaking.
> --
> Gary L. Wade
> http://www.garywade.com/
>
> On 5/14/2014, 11:15 PM, "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> On 15 May 2014, at 08:41, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> On May 14, 2014, at 6:24 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <email@hidden>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> But the only thing in 10.9.2 I found was NSSpeechSynthesizer, which
>>>> has 24 voices (which is nice) but all 24 have VoiceLanguage =
>>>> VoiceLocaleIdentifier = en_US (which seems rather odd).
>>>
>>> The non-English voices are optional downloads — you can get them via
>>> the Dictation/Speech system pref pane. Pull down the System Voice pop-up
>>> and choose Customize…
>>
>> Thanks. Just did that.
>>
>> Did set System Voice to "Anna" (a German voice).
>> Now, when I select some (German) text and do Control-Click → Speech →
>> Start Speaking it just works. Very good.
>>
>> But this:
>>
>> NSString *voiceIdentifier =
>> @"com.apple.speech.synthesis.voice.anna.premium";
>> NSString *text = @"Der Osten ist rot.";
>> NSSpeechSynthesizer *syn = [ [ NSSpeechSynthesizer alloc ]
>> initWithVoice: voiceIdentifier ]; // non-nil
>> BOOL ok = [ syn startSpeakingString: text ]; // returns YES, but does
>> NOT speak
>> NSString *pp = [ syn phonemesFromText: text ]; // returns empty string
>>
>> does not work as expected.
>> Same problem with all other voices I just downloaded. Only the default
>> (en-US) voices work as they should.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> Gerriet.
>
>
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