Changing Speach Words

[sonypoolplr]

I was weondering if there is a way that we can change the way HS speaks some words or phrases? I have it speaking the weather forecast and for the wind, instead of it saying W S W, for west southwest, I would like it to say west southwest. Is this possible?

Thanks.

[Uncle Michael]

There is a standard script function called - appropriately - Replace. I haven't actually used it (I only discovered it recently, so I've used more crude approaches), but it looks pretty easy.

Dim strNew as String
Dim strOriginal as String

strNew = Replace(strOriginal, "W S W", "west southwest")

[Czechmarty]

Or you can try some of the speech proxy plugins. You can set whole pronunciation vocabulary there.

[sonypoolplr]

There is a standard script function called - appropriately - Replace. I haven't actually used it (I only discovered it recently, so I've used more crude approaches), but it looks pretty easy.

Dim strNew as String
Dim strOriginal as String

strNew = Replace(strOriginal, "W S W", "west southwest")

Mike,
Where would something like that be put? Right now I have the forecast as a device in HS and I am calling that device up in the speach command with the $$DS:X2 command.

Thanks.

[sonypoolplr]

Or you can try some of the speech proxy plugins. You can set whole pronunciation vocabulary there.

Thanks. I will take a look at them. I thought that the Homeseer vocabulary could be modified as well, but I haven't found anything to confirm that.

[Czechmarty]

I've never played with that. I'm using the one that is not in updater.

[Uncle Michael]

Mike,
Where would something like that be put? Right now I have the forecast as a device in HS and I am calling that device up in the speach command with the $$DS:X2 command.

I don't know.
I assumed you captured the forecast in a string and used a script with hs.Speak. In that case the replace command(s) would be applied to the string before executing the speak command.

[sonypoolplr]

Mike,
I guess I am kind of doing what you assume. I have the forcast in a device, x2, and then I am calling it using HS.speak in a script like this:

hs.speak "The current conditions are $$DS:X2, and the forecast is $$DS:X5."

So what you are saying is I can't use the replace command when I do it like I am? Is there another way that I can call up the information in the device?

Thanks.

[nightwalker]

Here's an example of a script I use as part of the morning routines. I use "replace" in it to do what you're talking about. I found that it works quite well mostly. I have since gone to a Speach proxy, currently using BLSpeech, but there are others I believe, and using the replace command in there to change words and phrases that get used a lot. It has saved me a lot of editing when I change something around. The words and phrases are automatically changed to what you want without having to go through all your scripts and speak commands and change everything.

Public Sub Main(ByVal Parms As Object) 
    Dim speakMsg As String = "" 
    speakMsg = speakMsg & " and now the weather, , , "
    speakMsg = speakMsg & hs.DeviceString("x21") & " ,  " & hs.DeviceString("x22") & " ,  " & hs.DeviceString("x23")
    speakMsg = speakMsg.Replace("° F", "degrees")
    speakMsg = speakMsg.Replace("mph", "miles per hour")
    speakMsg = speakMsg.Replace("T-", "thunder")
    speakMsg = speakMsg.Replace("N/A", "not available")
    hs.Speak(speakMsg) 
    speakMsg = Nothing 
End Sub 

[Uncle Michael]

Marty beat me to it, with a much more useful answer!

[nightwalker]

Marty beat me to it, with a much more useful answer!

That doesn't happen too often.

[sonypoolplr]

Thank you very much. Now I have some work to do.

Again thank you for your help. As another question, how easy is BLspeech to use? Does it work well with HS speaker?

Thanks again.

[nightwalker]

Thank you very much. Now I have some work to do.

Again thank you for your help. As another question, how easy is BLspeech to use? Does it work well with HS speaker?

Thanks again.

Incredibly easy, and very well, otherwise I'd wouldn't be using it.

[sonypoolplr]

Yeh I guess not, thanks.

Where can I get the BLSpeech plugin? I checked the updater and it isn't there, and a search on the forums only brings up threads about it.

Thanks.

[nightwalker]

google is your friend