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Quartz Composer Plugin

SpeechSynthesis                 A Quartz Composer plug-in that uses Mac OS X built-in 

                        speech synthesizer to speak a string of text.

Sample Requirements             The plugin was created using the Xcode editor running 

                        under Mac OS X 10.6.x or later. 

About the sample                A Quartz Composer plug-in that uses the Mac OS X built-

                        in speech synthesizer to read text using a specified 

                        voice.

Using the Sample                Open the project using the Xcode editor which can be found 

                        in /Developer/Applications. From the main menu, 

                        choose "Project", set "Active Configuration" to "Release", 

                        and "Active Target" to "Build & Copy".  These settings are

                        also available from the top left corner of the 'Overview' 

                        pull-down window. Build the project. Once the build has 

                        completed successfully, the plug-in can be used as a 

                        regular QC patch in the Quartz Composer editor (also 

                        installed under /Developer/Applications), by selecting it 

                        from the Library - Plugin panel.

                        The user can set the text and voice name in the plug-in 

                        input ports. The text will be spoken once every time 

                        the patch is executed.

Installation                    n/a

Changes from Previous Versions          n/a

Feedback and Bug Reports            Please send all feedback about this sample to:

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                        Please submit any bug reports about this example to 

                        http://developer.apple.com/bugreport