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Minimal replacement for Speak XOP

Posted August 21st, 2011 by youngm
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Apparently the Speak XOP was obsoleted as of Igor Pro version 6. Occasionally I found it useful for user feedback, or for demos during lab tours.

Here's a simple replacement for Mac users. I've tested it with Igor Pro 6.22A under 10.6.8 and 10.7.1. It also works well with the new high-quality international voices in Lion.

Mike

#pragma rtGlobals=1		// Use modern global access method.
 
//	Speak(text, voice) is a minimal replacement for the old Speak XOP
//	text is the text to be spoken, embed \r\r to create a pause
//	voice is a system voice such as Alex, Bruce, Fred, Kathy, Vicki, Victoria, etc.
//	If voice is empty (""), the default system voice is used;
//	the default voice can be set in the Speech system preference.
//	
//	an example:
//	Speak("position the cursors on the trace\r\rpress ok when ready", "Vicki")
Function Speak(text, voice)
	String text, voice
 
	String phrase = " say \""+ text +"\" using \"" + voice+ "\" "
 
	ExecuteScriptText/Z phrase
 
End

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