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Edja
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Re: Paid Work for Programmer Assistance
« Reply #5 on: Aug 29th, 2014, 08:21am » |
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Quote:| It 'says' the string on the command line, so to 'say' a file a quick bit of BASIC code would be something like .. . |
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What is the solution explained here doing differently from the method explained in the WIKI article "Speaking the contents of a file by Richard Russell, October 2008" ?
The WIKI explains how to speak a string or the content of a file. What am I missing here ?
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JGHarston
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Re: Paid Work for Programmer Assistance
« Reply #6 on: Aug 29th, 2014, 3:02pm » |
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on Aug 29th, 2014, 08:21am, Edja wrote:| What is the solution explained here doing differently from the method explained in the WIKI article "Speaking the contents of a file by Richard Russell, October 2008" ? |
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Absolutely nothing. It's just as the question had been asked here I automatically assumed that a solution had not actually been found and written up, so it never occurred to me to check the Wiki as the very fact the question was being asked made me subconciously assume that looking in the Wiki would be useless as otherwise, why would the questioner be asking the question?
The lesson to be learned - always check the Wiki before posting.
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KenDown
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Re: Paid Work for Programmer Assistance
« Reply #7 on: Sep 3rd, 2014, 8:22pm » |
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It must be pointed out, however, that the quality of the text ouput by the speak command demonstrated in Richard Russell's SPEAK example program does depend heavily on the voice you have installed. I recently upgraded my computer and had to reinstall all programs. The speech was awful - almost unintelligible - until I installed an early version of Microsoft Autoroute which comes with quite a nice female voice.
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Re: Paid Work for Programmer Assistance
« Reply #8 on: Sep 3rd, 2014, 9:20pm » |
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on Sep 3rd, 2014, 8:22pm, KenDown wrote:| I recently upgraded my computer and had to reinstall all programs. The speech was awful |
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You say you upgraded, but you omitted the most important piece of information - to what version of Windows? On English versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 the default voice is Microsoft Anna; no male voice is included as standard. On Windows 8 Microsoft David (male), Microsoft Hazel (female, UK) and Microsoft Zira (female, US) are supplied.
It's worth bearing in mind that the SAPI5 command syntax allows you not only to use a specific voice (if available) but also to specify that a female or male voice is preferentially used. This can be useful when you don't know which voices will be available.
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