[jboehm]

Hi,

I need to be able to send strings to Apple's Speech syth engine from Perl. I want to be able to do something similar to doing this in applescript (say "hello world"). I know this was possible with MacPerl under 9 but I have not found any example code that might be able to give me a hint on how to do this in X.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jon

[Mithras]

#!/usr/bin/perl
system("osascript -e 'say \"hello joe!\"'");


Note that this works when executed on the command line or by a GUI app, but will not have security rights if you run it via SSH or in a CGI script.

[jboehm]

Originally posted by Mithras:
#!/usr/bin/perl
system("osascript -e 'say \"hello joe!\"'");

Yes I have done this already, but its on the slow side. I was hoping to access Speech directly.

[Angus_D]

There is no direct access to speech from Perl, but you could probably write a .pm that wraps the C API, or something.