[Pythonmac-SIG] Speech Synthesis

[has]

Juan Sebastián Lach wrote:

>Is there by any chance a version of the macspeech module than can work with
>OSX?? If not, would it be too difficult to implement? I want to control
>speech synthesis from Python and/or SuperCollider.

Dunno about direct bindings, but if you don't mind using OSA 
scripting additions [<hack-spit>euwww] it's easy enough to do via the 
Standard Additions' 'say' command using the osax and aem modules from 
<http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/appscript.html>:

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#!/usr/local/bin/pythonw

from osax import osax

def say(text, display=None, voice=None, waiting=None, outputfile=None):
	"""Speak the given text.
		text : str -- the text to speak, which can include 
intonation characters
		display : str -- the text to display in the feedback 
window (if different). Ignored unless Speech Recognition is on.
		voice : str -- the voice to speak with.  Ignored if 
Speech Recognition is on.
		waiting : bool  -- wait for speech to complete before 
returning (default is true). Ignored unless Speech Recognition is on.
		outputfile : anything -- the alias, file reference or 
Mac-style path string of an AIFF file (existing or not) to contain 
the sound output.
	"""
	params = {'----':text}
	for val, code in ((display, 'DISP'), (voice, 'VOIC'), 
(waiting, 'wfsp'), (outputfile, 'stof')):
		if val is not None:
			params[code] = val
	osax('syso', 'ttos', params)


# TEST
say('hello', voice='Zarvox')

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HTH

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