Text to speech option?

Hi all,

I'm looking for away to implement a text to speech function in my grasshopper definition.

I have some panels with text which will change every minute and I like these to be spoken out.

Thanks,

Remy

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 13, 2015 at 3:07pm

That was surprisingly much easier than I thought it would be... You'll need to set up the correct assembly references though via the 'Manage Assemblies...' menu option in each C# component.

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 13, 2015 at 3:07pm

Also it speaks asynchronously, meaning it'll start talking over itself. There's all kinds of stuff I can do to make it smarter in that respect, but let me know first if this works for you.

Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on October 13, 2015 at 3:25pm

Works great!

Also, Microsoft Heera has a lovely accent (though I think only people with UK windows will have that one as default)

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on October 15, 2015 at 3:19am

That's just too much funz! Attached a GHPython version in case anyone needs it.

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Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on October 15, 2015 at 3:27am

Just noticed that selecting a voice is a minor bottleneck. If you delete that line it executes substantially faster.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 15, 2015 at 7:47am

The speech module can also save the audio to a file instead of streaming it to the speakers, could be an interesting feature as well...

Permalink Reply by emlplsn on October 13, 2015 at 3:51pm

Neat! Totally saving this for future use. Microsoft Anna is default on my machine. Also, I didn't have to reset the referenced assembly, which is nice.

Permalink Reply by Remy Konings on October 13, 2015 at 4:25pm