Availability: Macintosh.
This module provides an interface to the Macintosh Speech Manager,
allowing you to let the Macintosh utter phrases. You need a version of
the Speech Manager extension (version 1 and 2 have been tested) in
your Extensions folder for this to work. The module does not
provide full access to all features of the Speech Manager yet. It may
not be available in all Mac Python versions.
- Available ()
-
Test availability of the Speech Manager extension (and, on the
PowerPC, the Speech Manager shared library). Return
0 or
1.
- Version ()
-
Return the (integer) version number of the Speech Manager.
- SpeakString (str)
-
Utter the string str using the default voice,
asynchronously. This aborts any speech that may still be active from
prior SpeakString() invocations.
- Busy ()
-
Return the number of speech channels busy, system-wide.
- CountVoices ()
-
Return the number of different voices available.
- GetIndVoice (num)
-
Return a Voice object for voice number num.
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