Re: SpeakTextPacket in 5.2
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- Subject: [mg65460] Re: [mg65450] SpeakTextPacket in 5.2
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 06:59:24 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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The two lines beginning with FrontEndExecute work OK with version 5.2 on my PC running Windows XP. Dana DeLouis wrote: > Hello. I use to have this function in my startup file. It would speak the > text, and I remember that it worked well. > > say[s_String]:= FrontEndExecute[SpeakTextPacket[s]] > > However, I have not gotten this to work in awhile. > Has anyone gotten this to work with version 5.2? > > The Mathematica Journal (9-3, pg. 300) recommends the following line > first... > > FrontEndExecute[SetSpeechParametersPacket[1]] > > Then... > > FrontEndExecute[SpeakTextPacket["Hello there."]] > > However, the above no longer works. > > Speech works well on my computer using Microsoft Office 2003. > > I know this is an "undocumented feature," so I cannot complain. :>0 > > Just wondering. Maybe it is a version 5 thing. > > Thanks. > dana.del at gmail.com > > > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- SpeakTextPacket in 5.2
- From: "Dana DeLouis" <ddelouis@bellsouth.net>
- SpeakTextPacket in 5.2