Text-to-Speech / Wait until finished

[jlutsky]

Is there any way to get EG to wait until text is finished speaking when using the TTS action, before moving onto the next action?

[Pako]

Is there any way to get EG to wait until text is finished speaking when using the TTS action, before moving onto the next action?

I know of no simple ways to achieve this.
However, one workaround I have for you:
1) Use a plugin IntelliSpeech instead of Speech plugin
2) Divide your macro into two parts.
3) When speaking finishes, an event IntelliSpeech.SpeakingFinished is triggered
4) The second macro run using the above event

Pako

[jlutsky]

Is there any way to get EG to wait until text is finished speaking when using the TTS action, before moving onto the next action?

I know of no simple ways to achieve this.
However, one workaround I have for you:
1) Use a plugin IntelliSpeech instead of Speech plugin
2) Divide your macro into two parts.
3) When speaking finishes, an event IntelliSpeech.SpeakingFinished is triggered
4) The second macro run using the above event

Pako

Thanks! This plugin does exactly what I needed.

Unfortunately, I prefer the custom voice dialects I already have installed that the basic text-to-speech plugin is able to use. But I was able to figure out an almost perfect work-around. If I have my first action be IntelliSpeech: Speak text with the volume at 1, followed immediately by the Speech: Speak action of the default plugin, both fire off some spoken text that take almost the same amount of time to finish, so I can still use the SpeakingFinished trigger to move on after that.

However, even at volume 1 I can still hear very faint speech from IntelliSpeech. Is it possible to set volume to 0, or mute the audio from IntelliSpeech entirely?

[Pako]

But I was able to figure out an almost perfect work-around. If I have my first action be IntelliSpeech: Speak text with the volume at 1, followed immediately by the Speech: Speak action of the default plugin, both fire off some spoken text that take almost the same amount of time to finish, so I can still use the SpeakingFinished trigger to move on after that.

I think it is not a good idea. It will never be reliable.
A better solution is when Speech plugin will have the same function.
You can try it out. Adjusted plugin can be downloaded from the SVN repository.

Pako

[wawa79]

Hello Pako,

I tried to implement an additional action to speak after interrupting any on-going speech in the 'Speech' plugin. This will help to handle priorities in notifications.

It would have been better to keep the same action and just add an 'Interrupt' parameter with a tick option but designing UI in Python is still a pain for me (even for a tick box).

I have looked a the code of the 'Speech' plugin and made few changes. They are commented with the '#ADDED: ' tag.
But because I am not familiar neither with Python nor with SAPI, my implentation might not be totally smart...
Is the thread closing correctly with my tts.Pause() action?
Why my new action 'TextToSpeechInterrupt' is not displying with the correct label in the Eg treeview of actions?

Your feedback is appreciated