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[Tcl/SMAPI-discuss] How to set speaker options in TTS interface for TCL/TK ?

[YADUNANDAN N. <yad...@ya...>]

Hi All,

I am trying to find out how to set various speaker options like speed
(number of words per minute), gender etc., using TCL/TK API for Viavoice
outloud TTS package. Can anyone help how to set these things?

regards,
yadu

Re: [Tcl/SMAPI-discuss] How to set speaker options in TTS interface for TCL/TK ?

[Mike M. <mon...@wa...>]

YADUNANDAN NAGARAJAIAH wrote:
> I am trying to find out how to set various speaker options like speed
> (number of words per minute), gender etc., using TCL/TK API for Viavoice
> outloud TTS package. Can anyone help how to set these things?

Only part of the eci API is implemented in tcltts.cpp.  That part is
not.  If you look at tts.pdf in the docs directory of the TTS SDK,
you'll find a description of the eci API, which you can use to help you
modify tcltts.cpp.

If you just want to change the default voice, my guess is that the
documentation can tell you how to do that, although I haven't tried it
myself.

Mike Monkowski, IBM

Re: [Tcl/SMAPI-discuss] How to set speaker options in TTS interface for TCL/TK ?

[Jeffrey S. <so...@ie...>]

On Saturday 16 February 2002 09:57 pm, YADUNANDAN NAGARAJAIAH wrote:
> I am trying to find out how to set various speaker options like speed
> (number of words per minute), gender etc., using TCL/TK API for Viavoice
> outloud TTS package. Can anyone help how to set these things?

Please refer to the "ECI Annotations" section of the ViaVoice TTS Reference
documentation.  Here it describes how one may embedd backquote escapes
into the text stream to accomplish these types of effects.  For example
	tts synthesize "`vy100 hello"
would be whispered speech.

As almost the entire API allows use of these escapes, I saw no reason to
extend the Tcl layer with the corresponding C API calls.

Jeff