RE: [misterhouse-users] speak problem in mh 2.59

[Craig S. <csc...@ya...>]

> > I am having problems with the speak function in mh 2.59. I loaded
> > the latest
> > version of perl 5.6, but did not load the 5.1 speech sdk yet. Any
> > call to speak
> > with a volume setting results in no text spoken. It does display
> > the text in the log window though.
> 
> Got me.  Works ok here.   Does it work ok when you call speak without
> volume?   Do you get this message on startup?
> 
>     print "\nWin32::Sound::Volume not installed ... volume control is
> disabled\n\n";
> 
> The call to set_volume is in mh/code/common/mh_sound.pl   ... could you be
> overinding that?
> 

I finally found the time to track this one down. Basically if you use the 4.x
speech sdk and use a volume param in a speak call, nothing is spoken. The
problem is in Voice_Text.pm in the set_volume function. Unless you are using
tts v5 this function returns nothing resulting in a null text param to speak. I
modified it thusly:

    if ($VTxt_version eq 'msv5') {
                                # If text is given, set for just this text with
XML.  Otherwise change the default
        if ($text) {
            return "<volume level='$volume'/> " . $text;
        }
        else {
            $VTxt->{Volume} = $volume;
            return;
        }
    } elsif ($VTxt_version eq 'msv4') {
        return $text;
    }


The same problem exists with set_pitch, set_voice, and perhaps set_rate.

-Craig

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