How to make IOS Native Text-to-Speech wishlist come true

scotttyang · Post by **scotttyang** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:17 pm

With such nice high quality voices already on IOS, how can we Get the attention of CEO Kevin Miller and execs to make available those voices for Livecode IOS?

Access to voices via Macs in OSX just, via shell command makes the apps comes more alive in the educational apps.

Yet iOS apps are so quiet!

How can we finally get our wishlist to come true for iOS Livecode! i want Victoria and Pedro and Ling Ling to start talkng in my Apps.

Scott

Waiting for years now....

jmburnod · Post by **jmburnod** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:08 pm

Hi Scott,
I tested one Dixie's stack which speak with native text control on IOS.
It works fine when we click on btn "speak"
I dream we can find a way to directly send the message that btn "speak" sends

Best regards
Jean-Marc

jmburnod · Post by **jmburnod** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 6:09 pm

Hi All,
We dreamed it, Thierry Douez did it.
He made a very useful external called sunnYtext2speech
We are now able to get available langages list, choose one of them and speak a text DIRECTLY with Play/Pause/Resume commands with params rate, pitch, volume, voice, theText

That is a big step and a very good news for Scott's wife

Here is the url where you can get it
http://sunny-tdz.com/sunnytext2speech
Best regards and many thanks to Thierry
Jean-Marc

chelling · Post by **chelling** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 1:43 am

This is exciting! Are there standard voices that are part of iOS? I have had request for a Spanish language version of one of my apps. Is it possible to add voices?

scotttyang · Post by **scotttyang** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 5:21 am

You know, if it works, my Spanish Medical App will truly finally come alive after 3 years! Along with my 1000 photo object Picture dictionary in every language possible!

Thierry · Post by **Thierry** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 5:43 am

scotttyang wrote:You know, if it works, my Spanish Medical App will truly finally come alive after 3 years! Along with my 1000 photo object Picture dictionary in every language possible!

Hi Scott,

Sure it works

Why not giving a try?

You can contact me off-list for more details.

Kind regards,

Thierry

scotttyang · Post by **scotttyang** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 6:42 am

I paid the $49.99 without even downloading the trial! I would have paid $999.99, for every dollar day that I had waited for Livecode to have native iOS voice on the iPad and iPhone!! and maybe Apple Watch! This opened up a whole new world to educational, utility app development!

Thank you!!! 謝謝您!

I am very happy!
¡Estoy muy allegre!
Estou muito feliz!
我很高興！
나는 매우 행복하다!
私はとても幸せです！
Je suis très heureux!
Je suis très heureux!
Je suis très heureux!
Je suis très heureux!

Thierry · Post by **Thierry** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 7:05 am

scotttyang wrote: This opened up a whole new world to educational, utility app development!

Yep, Jean-Marc and Christophe are using it for this purpose too.
May be if they chim in, they could explain what they are doing with it; very interesting for LC users.

Thank you!!! 謝謝您!
I am very happy!
¡Estoy muy allegre!
Estou muito feliz!
我很高興！
나는 매우 행복하다!
私はとても幸せです！
Je suis très heureux!
Je suis très heureux!
Je suis très heureux!
Je suis très heureux!

Thanks Scott, you make my day. I knew some have to be happy

Wish you all the success with your projects.

Kind regards,

Thierry

Thierry · Post by **Thierry** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 8:33 am

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chelling wrote:This is exciting! Are there standard voices that are part of iOS?

Hi chelling,

Yes.

I have had request for a Spanish language version of one of my apps. Is it possible to add voices?

Since iOS8, yes.

This morning, I just download a better language quality for French VOice.
And I got it working with sunnYtext2speech.

You can read this from Apple for the details:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203077

or:

http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/ ... _and_turn/

Kind regards,

Thierry

chelling · Post by **chelling** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 11:16 pm

Thanks! I just bought it before the price went up to $999.99

scotttyang · Post by **scotttyang** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:46 am

Hello Thierry,

Again, thanks for inventing the Wheel for us Livecode folks who needs to hear our Apps talk.

My likely only question is.....How to detect when the speech is done.

In my Card Script, I have:

on sunnYtext2speechNotification m
global isNotSpeaking
put true into isNotSpeaking
end sunnYtext2speechNotification

In a Speaking Button, I have:

on mouseUp
global isNotSpeaking
put false into isNotSpeaking
sunnYtext2speech .05, 1.25,1, "es-US","hello"
wait until isNotSpeaking is true
sunnYtext2speech .05, 1.25,1, "es-US", "hello"
end mouseUp

BUT the script just hangs, waiting for isNotSpeaking to be true. Any thoughts?

Scott

Thierry · Post by **Thierry** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 7:13 am

scotttyang wrote:Hello Thierry,
Again, thanks for inventing the Wheel for us Livecode folks who needs to hear our Apps talk.

You're welcome and I hope you enjoy it

My likely only question is.....How to detect when the speech is done.

Well, one can check it this way:

Code: Select all

on sunnYtext2speechNotification m 
   answer "Speech is done!"
end sunnYtext2speechNotification

I contact you ASAP in private for support questions.

Kind regards,

Thierry

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