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Execution Control Forms and Windows Controls Menus System and Desktop Graphic Drawing Commands

Animation QuickTime Movies Speech Sound File I/O Printing Serial Ports

Math Functions String Functions Date and Time Memory Buffers Error Handling Console Text Window Events

Direct Memory Access Direct Mouse Access Direct Keyboard Access Code Resource Modules A - Runtime Error Messages B - Compiler Error Messages

Speech

These section describes how to use the speech capabilities of the Macintosh.

Command Summary:
Say text$

Function Summary:
var = IsSpeech ( )
var = SpeechBusy( )

 

Say text$

This command will allow to produce speech from a text string.

text$ - This should be a string value that will be spoken by the speech manager.

 

Example:
Say "Hey how are you"

 

var = IsSpeech ( )

This function returns a true(1) or false(0) result to indicate whether speech manager is installed.

 

var = SpeechBusy( )

This function returns a true/false result to indicate whether speech is currently being produced. If there speech a true value of 1 is return otherwise false which equals 0 is returned.