Yes you could, but what if the user's voice is not what I set? I don't want
this for just me, it has to work for anyone who uses the package. Interfacing
directly with vo is the only way to do that.
On Sep 12, 2012, at 5:31 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote:
> I guess since I don't know Applescript I keep going to the shell. You can set
> the rate and voice for the say command using various flags:
>
> say -v Bruce "help" -r 400
>
> So wouldn't you be able to do something like
>
> os.system("say -v Bruce 'help' -r 400")
>
> CB
>
> On 9/12/12 4:09 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
>> Yes, like this:
>> import os
>> os.system("""osascript 'say "hello"'""")
>> The problem is that say does not honor vo settings. For instance, vo uses
>> Serena on my system, but my default voice is Alex, so I know the difference
>> (particularly helpful in chess). I want to use vo itself so that all
>> settings are used, regardless of the system's defaults. I know it can be
>> done, as this output command is in vo's dictionary in script editor, I just
>> don't know the right syntax to use.
>> On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Can you use Python to execute shell scripts? Then you could invoke
>>>
>>> say "sometext" to get your speech output from Python.
>>>
>>> CB
>>>
>>> On 9/11/12 6:17 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I'd like to use osascript to tell vo to output text, which would be part
>>>> of a python module. Long story short, can someone provide a quick example
>>>> of the exact syntax? I thought it might be:
>>>> osascript tell voiceover to output "hello world"
>>>> but I'm guessing at punctuation and exact wording. Any help would be
>>>> great. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Have a great day,
>>>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini)
>>>> mehg...@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>> Have a great day,
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