Text to Speech Tutorial

[xtermin8r]

Hi everyone.

Get VoxCommando to speak highlighted text.

Method 1
Use a keyboard button to trigger a VC action.

Requirements
1. VoxCommando.
2. TTS Engine.
3. Keyboard.  

First of all we need to enable the keyboard hook plugin in VC, so click on Options, then open options, click on the plugins tab, and tick the hook plugin, then save and close.
You may be prompted to do a full restart of VC, if not do it anyway.



Next step, From the main window click on edit, now import the xml below into VC, then save and close.

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Next step, from the main screen of VC click on the Plugins tab, Underneath active plugins you should see hook, now double click hook,



You will be presented with a new window called Plugin: hook, tick log keys, now press the F2 keyboard button, the F2 text will appear, highlight the F2 text then  click on the >> button , this will copy the F2 text into the specific keys section like below.

Finally click save all, then ok, do a full restart of VC, highlight some text, press F2 on your keyboard, the tts engine should kick in.



Below is a pic of the Logical Command builder.



Good luck.

If you encounter any problems with this tutorial, please let me know.

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[xtermin8r]

Method 2
Use Custom buttons addon for firefox to trigger the TTS Engine.

Requirements
1. VoxCommando.
2. TTS Engine.
3. Custom Buttons Addon for Firefox.  


Under Construction.
Construction complete http://voxcommando.com/forum/index.php?topic=1037.msg8634#msg8634

[xtermin8r]

Method 3
Use Mote or iRule (iDevice App) to trigger a VC action.

Requirements
1. VoxCommando.
2. TTS Engine.
3. Mote.
4. iDevice (iPod, iPhone, iPad).

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[Kalle]

Good job 

[jitterjames]

Hi everyone.

Get VoxCommando to speak highlighted text.

Method 1
Use a keyboard button to trigger a VC action.

Requirements
1. VoxCommando.
2. TTS Engine.
3. Keyboard.  

Very nicely done!

btw, do you even have a keyboard?

[xtermin8r]

@James and Kalle
Thank you.

btw, do you even have a keyboard?

Yes James, I do have a real keyboard, but I prefer to use the most advanced virtual keyboard on the planet,
Comfort Keys Pro.
http://www.comfort-software.com/hotkey-manager.html

[rio14]

hi
i see the site http://www.naturalreaders.com/index.html has many languages and voices,
it can be used on web page or download the windows version, my question : is it possible to use its tts if i download it?
thank you

[jitterjames]

If you download it you can probably use it to create a folder full of wav files and then use VoxCommando to play back those files in your command macros.

It is unlikely that it will install SAPI voices that VoxCommando is able to access directly but there is one way you can find out.  Try it!

[nime5ter]

@rio14 -- if you are looking for a free English TTS voice, I've just posted information on using Yandex TTS for Russian or English TTS here. http://voxcommando.com/forum/index.php?topic=2556.msg

Unfortunately, it does not seem to work in other languages.