Speak (txt2speech) on the different OS's

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Hi
If I understood correctly Speak command works differently on the different OS’s, so what works on Windows may not work on OSX or Linux
but I havent found anything on the documentation.
Anyone can clarify please or maybe I just didnt understand something
thanks

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Speak should work on Mac just fine.

3

If you need more, check the Speech Topic on our MBS Plugins:
http://monkeybreadsoftware.net/topic-speech.shtml

4

Your Parlonow project speaks fine on Mac OS X.

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I’m working with the Speak command and trying to create a “Silent” function, that is different from a Mute function in that it only stops what is currently queued up to speak, not all future lines to speak (it just shuts it up for the moment). I tried sending a Speak "", True but it seemed to have no effect on what was already in the queue. I also want to use either the Sound and/or PlayNote and have the same ability to stop the current output. Is there a way of muting the computer until the queue is done and how do I know when the queue is done?

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If you want to pause the queue then YOU have to handle the queue yourself (so send items to the speak command when YOU want them to be spoken).

For a pause in spoken output try

For i as integer = 0 to 10 Speak " " Next

That’s a short pause, try 20 for about 1 sek