text to speech

[mickmac]

Hi, I'm new to livecode .... used hypercard when it first came out (yes I go way back) but have been using adobe director for the last 15 years. Anyway, stumbled across livecode in kickstarter and am looking forward to using it from now on. I develop children's educational software and am hoping to use a text to speech function as part of the program. I tried out the revspeak command but it is very poor quality. So, is there a better way and will it work on android and ios mobile? Any help appreciated!

[jmburnod]

Hi mickmac,

The poor quality depend which voice you're using.
RevSpeak work fine except with langage without diacritical chars on mac Lion system

There is two others ways they work with diacritical chars

1. AppleScript
2. Shell

Revspeak don't work on IOS, but there is an external called rrenarrator.

Best regards
Jean-Marc

[mickmac]

Hi mickmac,

The poor quality depend which voice you're using.
RevSpeak work fine except with langage without diacritical chars on mac Lion system

There is two others ways they work with diacritical chars

1. AppleScript
2. Shell

Revspeak don't work on IOS, but there is an external called rrenarrator.

Best regards
Jean-Marc

Thanks for taking the time to reply Jean-Marc. I'll see if I can track down rrenarrator and figure out how to use it. I'm hoping to release my software for mobile devices.
Cheers
Mick

[jmburnod]

Hi All,

I received some info about texttospeech on IOS.
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-f ... chapi.html

Unfortunately I haven't yet the capacity to do something with it
Does someone can explore this doc and let us know if we can use it with LiveCode.

Thanks in advance
Best regards
Jean-Marc