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Re: Mathematica can talk!

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• Subject: [mg27354] Re: [mg27231] Mathematica can talk!
• From: "Christopher J. Purcell" <purcell at drea.dnd.ca>
• Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 03:18:04 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On a Macintosh G3, system 8.6, with Mathematica Version 4.0, a 
perusal of the output from:

?System`*

reveals 3 interesting undocumented symbols:

SpeakTextPacket
CurrentlySpeakingPacket
SetSpeechParametersPacket

After much trial and error all I succeeded in doing was the following:

  (* Example of telling the front end to create a cell with text in 
it, selecting it and then speaking, but only saying the "In[]". The 
"CurrentlySpeakingPacket"
is clearly missing something, but if this line is not included the 
kernel will not terminate without extreme prejudice.  *)

FrontEndExecute[FrontEnd`NotebookWrite[FrontEnd`SelectedNotebook[ 
],"Houston we have a problem."]];
SelectionMove[SelectedNotebook[],All,Cell];
FrontEndExecute["CurrentlySpeakingPacket"]
FrontEndExecute["SpeakTextPacket"]

I was hoping after writing some text to a cell, and selecting it, 
that I could mimic the effect of inputting Control-V from the 
keyboard. This is getting close to working, it reads back the In[]. 
Any suggestions on how to improve upon this?


>  I have a Mac with Mac9.04. Recently, I was working on a notebook
>and accidently pressed Control V keys (instead of Command V)
>and to my amazement Mathematica read back the cell contents to
>me . I have looked to see if this  feature is documented but have
>not found anything in the Help manual . Has anyone got any ideas
>on how one can control the speech properties  I guess it is using
>the speech synthesizer in the Mac. However, I have not been able
>to control the speed or voice characteristics with the Mac  speech
>contol panel .
>
>Brian
>
>
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Dr. Christopher J. Purcell
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