objective c "say" command

Question

In applescript there is a say command. Is there something like this for objective c?

Thanks, Elijah

Answer 1

You can just use NSTask to run the 'say' commandline program

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Answer 2

Cocoa also has the NSSpeechSynthesizer class.

Answer 3

Are you switching to the windows environment?? If so, you can utilized the Speech SDK:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms723627(VS.85).aspx

Here is an example of how to implement it in C# (sorry, not that familiar with C, hopefully its helpful):

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/ssrinivas/TextToSpeechConversioninCSharp11222005060134AM/TextToSpeechConversioninCSharp.aspx

If you aren't switching to windows, hopefully there is a way to use the say SKD...

Answer 4

On the iPhone there is no way. If you are talking about mac code, Cocoa has a class to do this (NSSpeechSynthesizer).

Code:

NSSpeechSynthesizer * syn = [[NSSpeechSynthesizer alloc] init];
[syn startSpeakingString:@"my string"];