On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
> The example isn't great, there are some issues with it but its close at
> least.
>
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>
> > Yep, in simplest form its not to bad. I put a bunch of text into a field
> > then to read it, set the itemdelimter to "." put the field text into a
> > variable and replaced "? " with ?. " same with "! " replaced with "!. "
> (to
> > ensure we still retain punctuation tone changes)
> >
> > So the following script placed in a button will read from field 1.
> > Clicking the button again pauses, Reading picks up where it left off.
> >
> > local tReading, tCurrLine, tTotalLines,tText
> > on mouseUp
> > if tReading is empty then put false into tReading
> > put not tReading into tReading
> > set the label of me to "Reading: " & tReading
> > startLooping
> > end mouseUp
> >
> > command startLooping
> > set the linedelimiter to "."
> > if tReading then
> > if tCurrLine is empty then
> > put field 1 into tText
> > replace "? " with "?. " in tText
> > replace "! " with "!. " in tText
> > put the number of lines in tText into tTotalLines
> > put 1 into tCurrLine
> > end if
> >
> > if not revIsSpeaking() then
> > revspeak line tCurrLine of tText
> > if tCurrLine = tTotalLines then
> > put false into tReading
> > put empty into tCurrLine
> > else
> > add 1 to tCurrLine
> > end if
> > end if
> > set the label of me to "Reading: " & tReading
> > send startLooping to me in 20 milliseconds
> > end if
> > end startLooping
>
I like it! I used your post as the text to read aloud via your script.
With a little more code to add active sentence highlighting, and handle
other oddities in text like ("?" with "?."), it becomes a pretty nice
screen reader that you can follow along visually. I could see this growing
into a great teaching aid for reading.
˜Roger
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