Like for Skype. I heard the Growl thing is kind of limited because you don't
get the speech at the same rate as VO necessarily, etc. It's the convenience
things like this I like scripts for in Windows, to have JFW tell me what the
message says as it comes in, to have a hot key to tell me how much time is
left in a song in Station Playlist, etc. I suppose they're not absolutely
required, but the scripts sure make things a lot easier.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Smart" <bryansm...@bryansmart.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 4:09 PM
Subject: RE: Scripting with VO
Scripts would be most useful if we culd help VO to speak important
information automatically, rather than requiring you to go and read it
manually. That isn't always appropriate, but can be useful. Right now,
though, Applescripts can't run in response to UI events, so that isn't
possible.
Bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Yvonne Thomson
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 11:14 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Scripting with VO
Hi, guys
I think my problem with the scripting thing isn't specifically with
scripting. It's just that nobody's given me an example where being able to
script voiceover itself is useful. I've been doing things like this for more
years than I really want to think about. Use applescript or a shell script
to get information from an application and then use the say command to speak
it. The twitterific example from the podcast, as far as I know and please
feel free to jump in if I'm wrong uses twitterifics applescript dictionary
to get the time from the current message. The fact that you're asking
Voiceover to speak it rather than piping it through say doesn't seem all
that much different to me. The example that comes with VO, reading the time,
is the same way.
What I'm looking for, I suppose, is an example of someone doing something
more sophisticated. Under what circumstances do you need to actually use the
applescript VO dictionary? Could you use it to mimic something like the jump
to linked item command we mostly use in mail with an application that didn't
have it, for example? What else?
I guess maybe this should be posted on the developers list instead, I'm not
sure. And obviously, as anyone who's ever read anything from me will know
I'm always tinkering with scripts and hotkeys and launchers and goodness
knows what to add features to apps that don't have them or make things
easier to get to. I've just never been able to pin down any really good
examples of people scripting VO itself for any of it, even though Snow
Leopard's let us do it. So has anyone got any good examples to make this all
just a bit more concrete?
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