Re: Mathematica can talk!
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- Subject: [mg27572] Re: [mg27231] Mathematica can talk!
- From: Pavel.Pokorny at vscht.cz
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 04:08:15 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Prague Institute of Chemical Technology
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And how about Unix ? Can Mathematica speak under Unix ? -- Pavel Pokorny Math Dept, Prague Institute of Chemical Technology http://staff.vscht.cz/mat/Pavel.Pokorny Christopher J. Purcell <purcell at drea.dnd.ca> wrote: : The Voices button on the Speech control panel lets you select the : voice and its speed, but you must select this before you start : Mathematica for the changes to be effective. There must be some : undocumented backdoor to allow Mathematica to use this under program : control (rather than just keyboard input), and most likely Theodore : Gray has the key to that door. Jlink offers another way to access the : Mac's speech system. :> 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 :> :> :>Sent via Deja.com :>http://www.deja.com/ : -- : Dr. Christopher J. Purcell : GL/Trans : Defence Research Establishment Atlantic : 9 Grove St., Dartmouth, NS Canada B2Y 3Z7 : Tel: 902-426-3100-x389 : Fax: 902-426-9654 : E-mail: purcell at drea.dnd.ca