Re: [pygame] TTS and Pitch Parameter

["FT" <chester_lab@xxxxxxxx>]

Brian,

    I sent a test below that does use the Pitch attribute and it does work.
Now when adding pygame import, init pygame, then at the end pygame quit, it
still works for the pitch, but an error saying python has encountered a
problem comes up and exits the program after you click on the option for the
error report.

    This error only happens at the end of doing all the speaking of the test
below.

    Now I can show the example programs to you and maybe you can test it and
see what is going on. I will send that in the next file.

    Now I was doing tests in pygame using a mixer and the main loop. Now
when inserting tts.Volume, and tts.Rate they both work. But when adding
tts.Pitch it dies at the tts.Pitch assignment, or making of an instance.
    The error at that point is the object tts has no attribute Pitch. But
that error does not show in the example below.


I'm afraid I don't understand - so the script you emailed works fine
for you in python 2.5 on your windows box, right?

So then what exactly doesn't work? I still don't get why you think
pygame is involved...


On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:45 PM, FT <chester_lab@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>     Below is the speech.py file which will load in python25 from my
windows
>  OS. It uses the same command as in the pygame example, no different. So,
the
>  same import should be in affect, except if pygame uses these same
commands,
>  the pitch does not work.
>  import pyTTS
>  import time
>  tts = pyTTS.Create()
>
>  # set the speech rate, higher value = faster
>  # just for fun try values of -10 to 10
>  tts.Rate = 3
>  print "Speech rate =", tts.Rate
>
>  #NOW SET THE PITCH!
>  tts.Pitch = 3
>  print "Speech pitch =", tts.Pitch
>
>  # set the speech volume percentage (0-100%)
>  tts.Volume = 90
>  print "Speech volume =", tts.Volume
>
>  tts.SetVoiceByName('MSSam')
>  print "Voice is now set to Sam!"
>  tts.Speak("The speech rate is: ")
>  tts.Speak(tts.Rate)
>  tts.Speak("The speech pitch is: ")
>  tts.Speak(tts.Pitch)
>  tts.Speak("The speech volume is:")
>  tts.Speak(tts.Volume)
>  print
>
>  # get a list of all the available voices
>  tts.Speak("The List Of Voices Are: ")
>  tts.Speak(tts.GetVoiceNames())
>  print "List of voices =", tts.GetVoiceNames()
>
>  # explicitly set a voice
>  tts.SetVoiceByName('MSMary')
>  print "Voice is set to Mary"
>  print
>  # announce the date and time, does a good job
>  timeStr = "The date and time is " + time.asctime()
>  print timeStr
>  tts.Speak(timeStr)
>  print
>
>  str1 = """
>  A young executive was leaving the office at 6 pm when he found
>  the CEO standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in hand.
>  "Listen," said the CEO, "this is important, and my secretary has left.
>  Can you make this thing work?"
>  "Certainly," said the young executive. He turned the machine on,
>  inserted the paper, and pressed the start button.
>  "Excellent, excellent!" said the CEO as his paper disappeared inside
>  the machine. "I just need one copy."
>  """
>  print str1
>  tts.Speak(str1)
>  tts.Speak('Haah haa, haah, haa!')
>  print
>
>  tts.SetVoiceByName('MSMike')
>  tts.Speak("Now we are using Mike's voice!")
>
>  str2 = """
>  Finagle's fourth law:
>   Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it
worse.
>  """
>  print str2
>  print
>  print "The spoken text above has been written to a wave file (.wav)"
>  tts.Speak("Now sending text to a wav file!")
>  tts.SpeakToWave('Finagle4.wav', str2)
>  print "The wave file is loaded back and spoken ..."
>  tts.Speak("Now speaking the wav file: ")
>  tts.SpeakFromWave('Finagle4.wav')
>  print
>
>  print "Substitute a hard to pronounce word like Ctrl key ..."
>  #create an instance of the pronunciation corrector
>  p = pyTTS.Pronounce()
>  # replace words that are hard to pronounce with something that
>  # is spelled out or misspelled, but at least sounds like it
>  p.AddMisspelled('Ctrl', 'Control')
>  str3 = p.Correct('Please press the Ctrl key!')
>  tts.Speak(str3)
>  print
>
>  print "2 * 3 = 6"
>  tts.Speak('2 * 3 = 6')
>  print
>  tts.Speak("sounds goofy, let's replace * with times")
>  print "Substitute * with times"
>  # ' * ' needs the spaces
>  p.AddMisspelled(' * ', 'times')
>  str4 = p.Correct('2 * 3 = 6')
>  tts.Speak(str4)
>  print
>
>  print "Say that real fast a few times!"
>  str5 = "The sinking steamer sunk!"
>  tts.Rate = 6
>  for k in range(4):
>     print str5
>     tts.Speak(str5)
>     time.sleep(0.2)
>  tts.Rate = 0
>
>  tts.Pitch = 1
>  tts.SetVoiceByName("MSSam")
>  tts.Speak("Wow, not one mispronounced word!")
>
>


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