So To Speak is an application built in Serius Workshop which uses
Apple's new Speech Manager (aka. MacInTalk II, MacInTalk Pro,
PlainTalk, and Gala Tea. Geez!) To use So To Speak, you need version
1.0.b5 or later of the Speech Manager.
So To Speak implements many (and soon all) of the functions of the Speech Manager. With So To Speak you can have mulitple voices speaking at the same time, choose the voice to use from a pop-up menu listing all the available voices, vary the pitch and rate of the voices as they are speaking, pause and stop the speaking immediately, at the end of the current word, or at the end of the current sentence, and continue paused speech.
Features at various stages of implementation in So To Speak:
+ convert text to its phonemic representation
+ modify the converted text in any way you want
+ speak phonemic text
+ install your own dictionaries
+ save the speech to a 'snd ' (or some other format) file
+ turn emphasis on and off
+ preflight text
+ etc, etc.
Comments and suggestions are welcome. Enjoy!
The Fine Print
This program is Postcard-ware, which means if you use it, and you'd like me to write more useful things, then you should send me a postcard. If you feel the desire to send me money, great, but I really do enjoy getting up at 4:00am to work on this :-).
You may distribute So To Speak any way you wish as long as you don't charge for it and this document are included.