Important: Inside Macintosh: Sound is deprecated as of Mac OS X v10.5. For new audio development in Mac OS X, use Core Audio. See the Audio page in the ADC Reference Library.
Speech Manager Routines
This section describes the routines provided by the Speech Manager. You can use these routines to
With the exception of the
- generate speech and then pause or stop it
- obtain information about an individual voice or all voices
- create and dispose of speech channels
- obtain the Speech Manager's version and status
- change the rate or pitch of speech
- convert textual into phonetic data
- install a pronunciation dictionary into a speech channel
SpeechManagerVersion,SpeechBusy, andSpeechBusySystemWidefunctions, all Speech Manager routines return a result code to indicate whether an error has occurred.The section "Application-Defined Routines" beginning on page 4-82 describes the syntax and operation of application-defined callback procedures.
Subtopics
- Starting, Stopping, and Pausing Speech
- Obtaining Information About Voices
- Managing Speech Channels
- Obtaining Information About Speech
- Changing Speech Attributes
- Converting Text To Phonemes
- Installing a Pronunciation Dictionary