Download Speech voices from my Standalone app

[gg12]

Hi, i'm looking for a way to download MacOs/Windows Speech voices from my Standalone app.
I know the manual steps to download them, but I'm looking for automatic download of these voices when the app doesn't detect them.

I saw the documentation for Speech library,

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speechSetVoice com-apple-speech-synthesis-voice-Hysterical

but Hysterical has to be an available voice (already downloaded).

Do you have a solution or an approach?

(ps: I had to replace the . with - because the forum detects it as an external url)

[jmburnod]

Hi gg12,
and welcome
Yes that would be very useful.
SpeechSetVoice only get a list of installed voices
As far i know there is not a LiveCode way now.
Maybe applescript, external or something else ?

Best regards
Jean-Marc

[Judy]

Just wondering (cause I don't know) if the speech voices could be included and installed from within the stack? Have. been pondering similar things so that I can use the old MacOS voices (like Hysterical, Bad News, Trinoids, etc.) in children's mini-apps.

[Judy]

I'm guessing that a workaround could be having those voices installed on your development machine and then running it (your stack/app) using an audio capture utility like audacity to capture the 'voices' as a sound file and then play *those* sound files rather than using the LC/OS TTS engine.

[Judy]

I'm guessing that a workaround could be having those voices installed on your development machine and then running it using an audio capture utility like audacity to capture the 'voices' and then play *those* sound files rather than using the LC TTS engine.

[richmond62]

You might end up with enormous standalone files, and your speech TTS files would not be where the OS would look for them.

[Judy]

You could. Can you not specify the installation path?