Re: Checking if speech finished?

[Charles Yeomans <charles@declareSub.com>]

On Apr 30, 2009, at 5:17 AM, Andy Dent wrote:

> If you use the Speak command, which does asynch speech on Mac and  
> Windows, is there any way to tell that it has finished?
> One of the options in rbKarel http://code.google.com/p/rbstuff/wiki/rbKarelOverview 
>  is to speak every action as it occurs.
> This implies we would like the robot to not proceed until the  
> previous action is completed, so I'd like some way to poll the  
> speaking status or otherwise block on speech completion.
> As this is an open source project, it can't rely on any proprietary  
> plugins for this option.
For Mac OS, you can do this using Speech Synthesis Manager functions  
or NSSpeechSynthesizer, with some work. The Carbon functions all  
appear to execute asynchronously; I don't know about the Cocoa stuff.
Charles Yeomans

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