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Are these parameter settings referring to the default voice which is set in Windows?

DranDane:

a pretty cob solution to the pausing script (which i use for a few functions as a multithreading tool, tested only in xp) as follows, which basically calls a second instance of the script with a command line parameter, that instance only alive to say what needs to be said and then die...



EDIT: replaced with fully working example showing the second instance behavior, a simple way to prevent the paused script during an asynchronous dllcall or ahk feature (beep...) not very elegant but a 250kb ahk exe running is a small price to pay for the functionality (cmdret and getmail work beautifully with this method)

Note: this example requires Notify() in scripts dir or stdLIB dir, mainly to show you whats going on, so you replace those calls if you prefer, otherwise get it here:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=48668

- gwarble

EDIT: this functionality has been wrapped into Instance() [stdlib] function
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51159

also, if you use TTS (ever) i strongly recommend vista's Anna voice over any xp voice i've tried (except maybe "toshiba adult male" but i can't find it anywhere)... you can get Anna for XP here
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51489

But this is not really pausing the speaking, it is creating another instant. Suppose I want to speak a long paragraph and I want to pause, I have to split the string at the pausing point and make the script to run again with the remainder of the text. Is there any way to genuinely pause in the middle.

that wasn't the question i answered (look at drandane's post that i replied to)

i dont know of a way to pause the speaking, but maybe in another instance you could pause the whole script externally by processID but i'm not sure if thats possible

- gwarble

I mean we have "MS Mike", "MS Sam" or some other TTS characters, how can i select character for speech？

ok, i got it, to select voice, just use this format
<SAPI><VOICE REQUIRED="NAME=your voice engine">text</VOICE></SAPI>

worked fine with me
nice thing it can switch voices btw SAM <> MIKE <> MARY

The eSpeak package contains a TTS executable, SAPI5-compatible, that can pause or stop the speech and also change voice, rate and volume. Ironically, SAPI4 - available for Win9x - can also change voice pitch; I wonder why SAPI 5.x can't do that...

I also am very interested in changing voice, rate, volume of SAPI4-5 though COM. Anyone knowledgeable, please advise. Thank you!

Is there a way to change the format of the voice? e.g. from the default to 48kHz, 16Bit Stereo

I looked here, and found what I think I'm looking for but do not know how to use DLLCall or COM to change the value.

Any help would be appreciated.

I changed dwFlags to 3 which I find more practical, as it will stop any previous speaking and continue with new text, if given.

Is there any way, AHK can detect THE END of current spoken text from the TTS engine, so it can automatically iterate to next text chunk? Something like RunWait, but for tts, maybe ttsWait?

Why do you want stereo? Speech is normally a single source, meaning mono. 22 kHz should be also enough as the max frequency is not often above 11kHz. So having mono, 22kHz, 16bit, should be already the best setting.

Very cool

Could this be used to read each word as I type?

So I hear mistakes along the way?

Thanks

Pip

You are right PattyCake it will not say the word IS on my system either although it does say other short words. I cant find out why this happens. Anyone else got an idea?

Which of these do I use and how do I use these:

ISpVoice::Pause
OR
ISpeechVoice::Pause()


ISpVoice::Resume
OR
SpVoice.Resume

Also - is there a stop?
When it is running, my hotkeys won't stop it.