Well, Cupertino is fairly close to San Bruno, and before doing MacPerl, he _was_ an awker; in any case, "Nearawker" sounds better ... -r #!perl # "Voice Lister" v1.0 # by David Seay <g-s@navix.net> # additions by Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>, # shamelessly stolen from other samples # shameless additions by Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> use Mac::Speech; # Multimatthias display of alphabetized list of Mac's voices. $count = CountVoices(); $voice = GetIndVoice($count - 4 + 1); $desc = ${GetVoiceDescription($voice)}; $nameLength = ord(substr($desc,16,1)); $nameB = substr($desc,17,$nameLength); $channelB = NewSpeechChannel($voice) or die $^E; for $i (1..$count) { $voice = GetIndVoice($count - $i + 1); $desc = ${GetVoiceDescription($voice)}; $nameLength = ord(substr($desc,16,1)); $name = substr($desc,17,$nameLength); printf("%2d %s\n", $i, $name); $channel = NewSpeechChannel($voice) or die $^E; SpeakText $channelB, "$i, $name"; while (SpeechBusy()) {} SpeakText($channel, "Matthias Neerawker"); while (SpeechBusy()) {} DisposeSpeechChannel $channel if $channel; } -- Rich Morin: rdm@cfcl.com, +1 650-873-7841, http://www.ptf.com/~rdm Prime Time Freeware: info@ptf.com, +1 408-433-9662, http://www.ptf.com MacPerl: http://www.macperl.com, http://www.ptf.com/ptf/products/MPPE MkLinux: http://www.mklinux.apple.com, http://www.ptf.com/ptf/products/MKLP ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org