[misterhouse-users] vv_tts.pl can't do voices to a file - fixed

[David <dav...@at...>]

Hi,

I recently posted a question asking if the current vv_tts.pl can do
different voices to a file (which is what we push to audrey and web
browsers).

Noone knew the answer. I now know the answer, which is no. This is not a
huge surprise, as there are comments in the code indicating that this
support seems to be missing:

 $parms{text} = "`v" . $parms{voice} . " " . $parms{text} if
$parms{voice}; # Does not work with to_file??

I dug in to this a bit, and I think I have a fix:

If you add the two lines below to vv_tts.pl voices will work to Audrey!
I now have her speaking with all the viavioce voices.

196a197,198
>       eciSetParam($h,eciInputType,1);
>       $parms{text} = "`v" . $parms{voice} . " " . $parms{text} if
$parms{voice};

I tested this with Viavoice 5.1, mh 2.78 and it seems to work fine.

Bruce, if you think this is okay, can you add to the next release?

Also, I am going to make volume work with viavoice and to_file. I think
this is just a matter of figuring out what volume viavoice uses for each
voice, and then scaling that volume by the user's volume value. I'll
post the code when I think it works.

Thanks,
David Satterfield