TTS question

[jjsmd]

I have a problem with TTS. Many times it will
read a name by speaking its individual letters?

How do I fix this?
Thanks
Joe

[Rupp]

What voices are you using? AT&T, built in OS voices,etc. Many voices will spell any phrase that is capitalized.

[johnwpb]

Very True, and this is more than likely why this is happening. If the speech is coming from a script insert the following JUST before the item is being spoken:

YourVariable= Lcase(YourVaiiable)

This will change the variable to all lower case so that it is spoken correctly

For instance if you had a variable named playstring:

Playstring = "HELLO"
hs.speak playstring
Would sound like "H E L L O"

Playstring = Lcase(Playstring)
hs.speak playstring
Would sound like "hello"

[DSteiNeuro]

Anybody have a routine to parse out the 1st letter of a text variable, so that the case of the variable can be changes to Title case

e.g. Titlecase(HELLO)
would come out Hello.

Shouldn't be too hard to figure out a function.

Actually I wish that TCase() would be a built in VB function.

[DSteiNeuro]

The net is pretty amazing! To answer my own question, I did a quick google search. The 1st hit had a soulution:

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">
Public Function Titlecase (Word As String) As String
Word = Trim(Word)
If Word = "" Then Exit Function
Titlecase = UCase(Left(Word, 1)) & LCaseTrimFrom(Word, 1, 0))
End Function
</pre>

http://www.blibbleblobble.co.uk/Down.../Titlecase.htm

Will need a little modification but the concept works.

[Rupp]

Here you go:

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">
Playstring = "HELLO"
Playstring = LCase(Playstring)
Playstring = UCase(Left(Playstring, 1)) & Mid(Playstring, 2)
</pre>

[DSteiNeuro]

Hey Rupp!

That's it. Pretty simple, has been on my wish list for a long time.
If anyone wants to try it:

<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">
sub main()
Playstring = inputbox ("playstring")
Playstring = LCase(Playstring)
Playstring = UCase(Left(Playstring, 1)) & Mid(Playstring, 2)
msgbox playstring
end sub
</pre>

[jjsmd]

Thanks for the replies.
the problem was with the upper case.
All is well now.

Joe