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French English Tutor

Postby sandyn » Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:53 am

I am creating a French/English tutor and I need to be able to switch between French and English Pronunciation, as I run through the word in English and the French translation. If I get a French voice, French words will be pronounced correctly, but how do I toggle Text Aloud between French and English?? I am copying text to the clipboard in my software, is there a tag I can add to select the correct voice?

Thanks
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Postby kremesch » Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:01 am

You can use edit, insert voice change, withing the TA menu. you will have to do that at the beginning of each contextual change.
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Postby sandyn » Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:05 am

Thanks,
I don't want the user to have to change the voice. I think I have found how it is done. I have to embed the command to change the voice <voice required="name = Crystal16"> at the start of my text which is copied to the clipboard. This is relatively easy for me to do.
Thanks for your help
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Postby LessPaul » Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:00 pm

sandyn wrote:Thanks,
I don't want the user to have to change the voice. I think I have found how it is done. I have to embed the command to change the voice <voice required="name = Crystal16"> at the start of my text which is copied to the clipboard. This is relatively easy for me to do.
Thanks for your help


What I did for similar tasks and the German language was to go to the Pronunciation editor and define things like

EN_F
<voice required="name = Crystal16">

DE_M
<voice required="name = premium_male_german_voice">

(DE=Deutschland / Germany)

So now I can enter my voice changes quickly and in a way that is easy for me to remember.
A male English voice? EN_M
A female Spanish voice? SP_F
and so on....

And if I decide to change from male to female or vice versa, a simple search and replace does the trick. Another plus is that the voice changes no longer clutter up the screen or take up so much screen space.
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Postby brettman9 » Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:34 pm

Damn. great idea. Thx
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Voice changing

Postby johnatuna » Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:52 am

Wow...I learned something new today...thanks. This is a great idea!
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