
Festival also offers a pared-down C API - keep scrolling in that document - which you might be able to throw ctypes at for a one-off.

There's also a full-featured C++ API, which you might be able to make a Python module out of (it's fun!). Drag and drop the text substitutions onto your Desktop. Select one of the substitutions, then select all by pressing Command + A. Locate the following files manually, or use the Search box in the upper right corner and narrow down for ‘driver’ to find them remove the ones that are relevant to your issue: . Open the Text pane in the System Preferences > Keyboard. Enter the following path: /Library/Preferences/ and choose Go.
#OS 11 MAC SPEAK TO TEXT BLOCKS KEYBOARD MAC OS#
It allows you to use a single Mac's controls across multiple iPads or Macs. From the Mac OS Finder, hit Command+Shift+G to bring up Go To Folder. If you haven’t used dictation before, follow the guided setup instructions that appear. Universal Control is one of the most useful new features coming in macOS Monterey. Choose Edit > Start Dictation (from the Edit menu at the top of your screen). Also the server can run on a bigger machine, offering much faster synthesis. Place the insertion point where you want to begin dictating, or select the text you want to replace (to select placeholder text, click it). The server is forked for each client but this is much faster than having to wait for a Festival process to start from scratch. Basically the server offers a new command interpreter for each client that attaches to it. This allows Festival to run as a server and allow client programs to access it.

It sounds like Festival has a few public APIs, too:įestival offers a BSD socket-based interface. On at least Mac OS X, you can use subprocess to call out to the say command, which is quite fun for messing with your coworkers but might not be terribly useful for your needs. (optional) Finally, to run the speech we use runAndWait () All the say () texts won’t be said unless the interpreter encounters runAndWait ().

It looks unmaintained and specific to Microsoft's speech engine, however. say (text unicode, name string) text: Any text you wish to hear. A simple Google led me to pyTTS, and a few documents about it.
