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Using Windows Text to Speech in a skin
Posted: May 28th, 2010, 4:33 am
by jsmorley
Someone asked about using the built in Text to Speech in Windows instead of the Google Translate / TTS that I use with my speaking clock, so here you go.
You will need to be running Rainmeter 1.2 beta (r416 or better) to install this.
It will create an "addon" in your addons folder in Rainmeter\ and install a very small and simple example skin so you can see how to use it.
SpeakFromIni.rmskin
Edit: Replaced corrupted .rmskin 2/23/2011
Re: Using Windows Text to Speech in a skin
Posted: May 28th, 2010, 6:17 am
by MarkVI
Wow!!!
Thank you for sharing this! I'm downloading it and I'm going to work on it for most of the day tomorrow.
Is it still possible to use the Googlevoice instead of the Microsoft ones?
Re: Using Windows Text to Speech in a skin
Posted: May 28th, 2010, 8:45 am
by jsmorley
MarkVI wrote:Wow!!!
Thank you for sharing this! I'm downloading it and I'm going to work on it for most of the day tomorrow.
Is it still possible to use the Googlevoice instead of the Microsoft ones?
No. It will use whatever is the default voice in Windows. (XP = Microsoft Sam, Win7 = Microsoft Anna)
The only real advantage to this is that there is no limit on the number of chars, where the google tts app I think only allows 200 or something.
Re: Using Windows Text to Speech in a skin
Posted: May 28th, 2010, 1:43 pm
by dragonmage
You could use the Google TTS if you had it read individual notes. Create a note file with
<title></title>
<note1></note1>
<note2></note2>
etc
I mean generally your notes are probably going to be less than 200 chars individually.
Re: Using Windows Text to Speech in a skin
Posted: February 24th, 2011, 2:01 am
by CybOrSpasm
I have tried downloading that file 3 times now, and each time Rainstaller says the configuration file is missing. So, I tried to rename it to .zip, but then get the message that the file is corrupt.
}:[
Re: Using Windows Text to Speech in a skin
Posted: February 24th, 2011, 2:39 am
by jsmorley
CybOrSpasm wrote:I have tried downloading that file 3 times now, and each time Rainstaller says the configuration file is missing. So, I tried to rename it to .zip, but then get the message that the file is corrupt.
}:[
Got corrupted in a reactor meltdown we had last year, sorry. I have updated the attachment on the first post.
Re: Using Windows Text to Speech in a skin
Posted: March 7th, 2016, 2:31 am
by x_magnumse_x
Hey, sorry to dig up this old thread, but I thought it would be better than creating a new one.
The Speakfromini.exe is not working for Windows 10. Do you have a workaround or an update for it?
Thanks
Re: Using Windows Text to Speech in a skin
Posted: March 7th, 2016, 4:30 am
by jsmorley
x_magnumse_x wrote:Hey, sorry to dig up this old thread, but I thought it would be better than creating a new one.
The Speakfromini.exe is not working for Windows 10. Do you have a workaround or an update for it?
Thanks
The skin in the first post of this thread works just fine for me in Win10.
Re: Using Windows Text to Speech in a skin
Posted: March 8th, 2016, 7:10 am
by x_magnumse_x
Yeah I'm so sorry, that's my bad.
It works for me as well, turns out I had just had a typo in the path it was set to.
Re: Using Windows Text to Speech in a skin
Posted: March 30th, 2016, 2:51 pm
by StArL0rd84